Catholic Does NOT equal Christian... Far from it.
BS Catholics are the original Christians, everyone else is Johnny Come Lately
false !
Early Christianity is the period of
Christianity preceding the
First Council of Nicaea in 325. It is typically divided into the
Apostolic Age and the
Ante-Nicene Period (from the Apostolic Age until Nicea).
The first Christians, as described in the first chapters of the
Acts of the Apostles, were all
Jewish, either by birth, or
conversion for which the biblical term
proselyte is used,
[1] and referred to by historians as the
Jewish Christians. The early Gospel message was spread
orally; probably in
Aramaic,
[2] but almost immediately also in
Greek.
[3] The
New Testament's
Book of Acts and
Epistle to the Galatians record that the first
Christian community was
centered in Jerusalem and its leaders included
Peter,
James, and
John.
[4] Paul of Tarsus, after
his conversion to Christianity, claimed the title of "Apostle to the Gentiles". Paul's influence on Christian thinking is said to be more significant than that of any other
New Testament author.
[5] By the end of the
1st century, Christianity began to be recognized internally and externally as a
separate religion from Judaism which itself was refined and developed further in the centuries after the destruction of the
Second Jerusalem Temple.
Numerous quotations in the New Testament and other Christian writings of the 1st centuries, indicate that early Christians generally used and revered the
Jewish Bible (the
Tanakh) as
Scripture, mostly in the Greek (
Septuagint) or Aramaic (
Targum) translations.
[6]
As the
New Testament canon developed, the
Letters of Paul, the
canonical gospels and various other works were also recognized as scripture to be read in
church. Paul's letters, especially
Romans,
established a theology based on Christ rather than on the
Mosaic Law, but most
Christian denominations today still consider the
"moral prescriptions" of the Mosaic Law, such as the
Ten Commandments,
Great Commandment, and
Golden Rule, to be relevant. Early Christians demonstrated a wide range of beliefs and practices, many of which were later denounced as
heretical.
damn you're ignorant.