07 Sept. Persucution
From the beginning of Christianity there's has been persecution, even before it became an actual religion. Among the Jews the prophets had said that the faithful would suffer under the hands of the unrighteous. Persecution is the harassments of people for their religious faith, including infliction of death,. There has been three kinds of persecution in Christianity. The first was the Crucifixion, the second was the Jewish element and the third was the Greco-Roman Element, meaning during Nero's time. Those who confessed their faith were considered Martyrs those who while facing death turned on their faith were called apostasies. Religious confession took on a social meaning, "blood witness". Those who deliberately provoke authorities just for the cause did not represent the thinking of the church at large, which took the position that one should be faithful when brought to trial but should not seek out martyrdom. The first document devoted to martyrdom......
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