Greco-Roman Influence On Christianity

To begin, both cultures shared a large amount of influence to the Christian Church's the customs and traditions. As the rock, Peter, in which Jesus was building his Church, "Catholics" view this as the beginning of the Christian Church. The Greco-Roman influence was more profound because they were a mixture of cultures that were adapted and overtaken, but the most influential was "Greek Culture," where as, Judaism separated their customs from those around. As a society people were forced to worship a mixed Greco-Roman religion, and all other worship was outlawed, and this religion included mystery religions of the birth of "Mithra". Now this celebration shares the same day and many similarities with the Birth of Christ. Furthermore, when Peter began baptizing, and preaching to Gentiles the Christian religion began to expand. As the Church/disciples began growing, and the Roman Empire began to deteriorate, the number of believers grew to around "4 to 6 million," so the people wanted leadership and this came later on in the form of "bishops," "priests," "and deacons". Creating the foundation for first Church and accepting Christianity as the preferred religion for the Empire, even to this day.

Although, many variations of Christianity have split from this first one established by Peter, many things can be revealed about the influence Greco-Roman culture had on Christianity with knowledge. However, do I discredit Christianity as a religion? Actually, I believe it gives it more credibility, because they were willing to die for what they believe, and this movement grew from the bottom. But, people need to search for truth, so what we learn is from the Bible or Word of God, and not some adopted custom from an invading