The fall of the city On the 24th of August 410CE Rome fell to the Goths led by KIng Alaric and the city was sacked for the first time in eight hundred years. So who was to blame for this disaster – the pagans or the Christians ? Well the pagans of the time blamed the rise of Christianity and…
It’s common knowledge that Constantine was the first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire. And it’s fairly well known that he began a crack down on pagan worship and belief while simultaneously promoting Christianity and the Christian church opening up the state treasuries for the building of numerous churches and basilicas around the empire. But there’s much less information on…
Early Christians after Jesus’ death would pretty quickly elevate him to divine status. And this was despite the Jewish scriptures specifying a messiah as a very human leader rather than some sort of incarnation of God.The famous pagan philosopher Porphyry had plenty to say on this issue. He wrote extensively about the flaws in the early Christian arguments about Jesus…
