History of the Bible and the Christianity

 The history of the Bible and Christianity goes back to two thousand years which is blood-stained by the imperialistic Roman civilization. It is said that Christianity is a religion stolen by the Europeans from Asia. Although Jesus Christ was born in the Middle East, today’s center of Christianity is in the Vatican in Western Europe. The reason is the war between Roman and Jewish where Christians were taken away from the Middle East to Rome to multiply their very fast. Later the Roman emperors turned to Christianity, established Catholic Church, and translated the Bible from the original language Hebrew to English. The major focus of this journey is related to imperialism, class discrimination, and the politics of the Romans.

The Jewish-Roman War of the 1^st century led to the fall of the Jewish kingdom and the enslavement of the Jewish as well as the Christian peoples from the Middle East who were then taken to Rome. This destructive war helped the flourish of Roman imperialism. Although before this war the Jewish people tortured the Christians to stop the growth of the new religion, the Jewish community grew weaker and weaker after the war. On the other hand, Christianity found a new ground in Europe after being transported there. The class discrimination of Rome was facilitating the process.

In Rome, the social hierarchy was so strong that a rich or noble person was considered religiously more honored whereas a poor or low-born person had a similar prospect in the afterlife. The pagans of the land had to depend on money more to please a god than on their spirituality. When the new Christians arrived, they offered equality before God. Even if not in the worldly life, anyone could access Christian heaven in the afterlife with their deeds. So, the lower class mass accepted Christianity hugely. Many inventions of torture by the Roman emperors failed to control this massive conversion.

Finally, Emperor Constantinople applied the method that changed Roman politics forever making Catholicism the new form of Christianity. As he turned Christian, he started the new Catholic Church which will have his close people as the clergymen. This way, he could control every aspect of the religion in the name of preaching and supporting it. Catholicism altered the practices of Christianity in a way that supported the rulers and the aristocrats. The Bible was translated into Latin for the Roman people in accordance with the interest of the rulers, too.

Thus, the history of Christianity and the Bible is a result of the imperialism, class discrimination, and politics of ancient Rome.