History of the Church, part 1

Thanks Denton Bible Church and pastor Tom Nelson for the series on church history. We met with the Donhams and had our first discussion on why many raised in one church would disperse out into other churches. It will take much more learning before we can come to a conclusion, if we ever do. Learning about the history of the Christian Church has been interesting. Fun facts we've learned:
1. 313 AD, edict passed by Constantine that Christians will no longer be persecuted or killed for their faith (because there were so many Christians willing to die for their faith) and this was the first time in history church and state became one.
2. Christians weren't persecuted because they worshipped Christ, but because they worshipped ONLY Christ.
3. Origin (a person's name that we have yet to confirm spelling) was tortured EVERYDAY for 3 years by the Roman empire, because it was thought that if he would deny his faith, Christianity would fail. He died shortly after his release from his captors.
4. Gerome, a Syrian Hermit, was the first to translate the Hebrew and Greek to Latin (the Latin Vulgate).

This only brings us to the year 590. There's lots more info, which we will spare here. Lots more to learn... This book includes many of the early figures mentioned in this series, but it has been helpful to have the audio lessons to connect the bits of information.