How Christianity's Eastern history has been forgotten

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How Christianity's Eastern history has been forgotten - BBC News

I contemplated which forum to share this link in, but decided here would be appropriate.

I wish I knew the Christian answer to stopping the injustices taking place against Christians & other minorities. Prayer always - but what actions, I don't know. Raising awareness (like with history here) I suppose is a start.

Pray for peace for all people.
 

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God says people will say: peace, peace, when there is no peace! Yes, we can pray for peace, but it will not likely happen worldwide ---only in our inner circles, family, self, etc.; and only for a time. Satan is working more today than ever to divide people, destroy God's testimony, dissuade nominal believers, and discourage the saints in the world.

We are in a spiritual warfare. I see, and there is an urgent need for the pure gospel to go forth, and the saints of God to be closer to their Savior, and reading His Word in the little while left to us here. When the Lord returns He will rescue His own, then God will pour forth His wrath on this world.
 
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The stretch into eastern Asia was so early! How nice to see an article that is not bashing Christian history with incriminating instances where the religion was used by political leaders.

I remember being shocked in my teens to find some of my favorite Christian authors coming from countries I thought were closed to the gospel.

Turkey was the location of the seven churches of Revelation, and Paul's travels to Macedonia and Illyricum were further northward than today's borders-- Albania/Yugoslavia.

http://www.geocities.ws/godfind1/Letters-Illyricum.jpg

These areas were not completely Christian, but labeled Muslim after Ottoman invasion.

Romans 15:19
In the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
 
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Thanks for posting the link to that article.
I've taken church history at the college level and studied it some on my own, so I am aware of the Christian history there. But sadly it is ignored my most of the church.

I found it sad in the 70's when so many Christians were supporting Israel but no mention was made of support for Christian Arabs. They needed our support as well.
 
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The article touches upon the reasons for Eastern Christian history to be forgotten--which I agree is largely true. However, it never comes actually to grips with the main reason.

Sure, we can talk about Nestorians in China or some few, occasional visitors from Byzantium to Western Europe, but the problem comes down to this...

The Eastern Roman Empire was not expansionist, and its version of Christianity never has been, either, preferring to take the view that it has the truth and all who seek it must come to them at some point in time.

But where Christianity really took root was among the peoples of Western Europe and those societies--and later nation states--were much more outgoing, expansive, exploratory and, yes, evangelical. In time, the Spanish and English and Dutch and Portuguese carved up the rest of the world and took their religion with them, which is why Latin America, Anglo-America, SubSaharan Africa, Oceania, and other places are today Christian...of a Western variety, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic.
 
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How Christianity's Eastern history has been forgotten - BBC News

I wish I knew the Christian answer to stopping the injustices taking place against Christians & other minorities. Prayer always - but what actions, I don't know. Raising awareness (like with history here) I suppose is a start.

Christos voskrese!

I'm glad to see that people are beginning to realize that the Eastern Christians even exist. We must pray that those in the Churches founded by the very Apostles themselves are not completely annihilated and we must act to protect those people.



Voistinu voskrese!
 
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How Christianity's Eastern history has been forgotten - BBC News

I contemplated which forum to share this link in, but decided here would be appropriate.

I wish I knew the Christian answer to stopping the injustices taking place against Christians & other minorities. Prayer always - but what actions, I don't know. Raising awareness (like with history here) I suppose is a start.

Pray for peace for all people.
we can only support in prayer and through organizations we trust.
personally we like what Ravi Z is doing there..
 
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The article touches upon the reasons for Eastern Christian history to be forgotten--which I agree is largely true. However, it never comes actually to grips with the main reason.

Sure, we can talk about Nestorians in China or some few, occasional visitors from Byzantium to Western Europe, but the problem comes down to this...

The Eastern Roman Empire was not expansionist, and its version of Christianity never has been, either, preferring to take the view that it has the truth and all who seek it must come to them at some point in time.

But where Christianity really took root was among the peoples of Western Europe and those societies--and later nation states--were much more outgoing, expansive, exploratory and, yes, evangelical. In time, the Spanish and English and Dutch and Portuguese carved up the rest of the world and took their religion with them, which is why Latin America, Anglo-America, SubSaharan Africa, Oceania, and other places are today Christian...of a Western variety, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic.

About as true as the ascription of the Protestant Wind. :yawn:
 
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