Christianity

How did Christianity become such a massive religion that is today?

Nikita Bastiaannet

Why did I choose the question I chose?

I chose Christianity because I know a lot of people that are Christian, and I really wanted to know why there are so many more Christian people than Islamic people and I wanted to know why? Then we did some lessons on Christianity and I really wanted to learn more so I chose this as my question because it is about Christianity and how the religion became so big. I also chose this question because I thought it was very interesting, and you can learn a lot.

In this picture you can see that there are a lot of people practicing Christianity and that it is the biggest religion

What I found out?

I found out that Christianity is the most popular religion of all of the religions, in 2010 there estimate was over 2.18 billion people and that is nearly a third of the worlds population. One of my questions that I wanted to answer with this big question is what country practices the most Christianity and that is the USA, their are more than 243.06 million Christian people in the USA. I was also wondering about how does it spread because I didn't really get how so many people started being Christian even though they didn't even know that it existed so I started searching up some words and then I couldn't really find anything but then I found a really good website and I found out that a lot of people were passing it on to each other and people started being Christian while the Augustan System was going on.

Why are their so many people practicing Christianity?

Their are a lot of people practicing Christianity, and I was wondering why do so many people practice Christianity so I started researching. I found out that a lot of people practice Christianity because it is easy to follow, and their are no rigid guidelines and that means that they don't have to follow anything. They are also not forced to go to church, it doesn't matter if you go every day, every week, once a month, once a year or never.

Here the blue part is for the Christians and the Yellow/orange colour is for the muslims. You can see very clearly that there are way more Christians that Muslims today.

When/how did it spread?

Around 30 A.D was when Christianity was discovered. It was found in Judea, the olden days of Israel. In 30 CE more people started becoming Christian, so it spread. In 200 CE Jesus was crucified. In 600 CE Christianity became popular in Western Europe and they started being Christian in that part of the world. In 800 CE Muslims take land in the Levant, North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula. In 1600 CE it started to spread to United States of America. It all spread because the government and the Christianity tied together. Christianity also spread a lot during the Roman Augustan System. It was happening during the Age of Discovery.

In the bible they say “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.'”“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” These quotes are from the bible and it shows that they are basically force to tell people about Christianity and that is also why there are so many people practicing Christianity.

Fun Facts

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the world today. Roman Catholics make up approximately half of the world's Christians.
Approximately 160 million of the world's Christians are Orthodox.
Christian places of worship include churches, chapels, cathedrals, basilicas, and meeting halls.
Many Christians believe in angels, devils, demons, the Holy Spirit, Salvation, Mary - Mother of Jesus, Purgatory, heaven and hell.
Christians believe in one God, essentially a trinity of Holy Spirit, Father, and Son.
Christians believe that the afterlife includes an eternal heaven or hell depending on whether the individual has faith in God, in Christ's resurrection, and how they lived their life and worshipped God.
Christian holidays include Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, and All Saint's Day.
Aside from Jesus Christ, other prominent figures of Christianity include Jesus' mother Mary, Abraham, the Apostle Paul and John the Baptist.

Vocabulary

Crucified - Killed on a Cross

Denomination - a recognised autonomous branch of the Christian Church.

Orthodox - following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or beliefs of a religion, philosophy, or practice.

Chapels - a small building or room used for Christian worship in a school, prison, hospital, or large private house.

Cathedrals - the principal church of a diocese, with which the bishop is officially associated.

Basilicas - a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a law court or for public assemblies.

Purgatory - (in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.

Resurrection - the action or fact of resurrecting or being resurrected.

Epiphany - a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization.

Lent - the boat races held at Cambridge University in the Lent term.

Prominent - important; famous.

autonomous - having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.

bishop - a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.

colonnades - a row of evenly spaced columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arches.

semicircular - forming or shaped like a semicircle.

expiating - the act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.

Citations

5 Bible Verses About Sharing the Word of God.” Endtime Ministries | End of the Age | Irvin Baxter, 29 Apr. 2015, www.endtime.com/blog/5-bible-verses-sharing-word-god/.

“5 Bible Verses About Sharing the Word of God.” Endtime Ministries | End of the Age | Irvin Baxter, 29 Apr. 2015, www.endtime.com/blog/5-bible-verses-sharing-word-god/.

Hackett, Conrad, and David McClendon. “Christians Remain World's Largest Religious Group, but They Are Declining in Europe.” Pew Research Center, 5 Apr. 2017, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/.

businessinsider. “Animated Map Shows How Religion Spread around the World.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 July 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFl6UBZLv4.

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