Beliefs of the Earliest Christians

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One of the first things the student of the history of Christianity discovers as he follows Christianity’s journey down through the centuries is that there were significant differences between the earliest Christians and Christians of today. The look of the church is very different. The church of the first century was made up of numerous small assemblies (ekklesiai) that met in the homes or small gathering places. There is no trace of the existence a church as an edifice until the fourth century following the edict of Milan by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 313 AD. Consequently, the worship of the earliest Christians changed from pristine gatherings of small bodies of believers to the culture that as carried Christianity down through the centuries to the present. The beliefs of the earliest Christians (the title of this course) can all be found in the NT writings. The following lessons are a collection of the most essential
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beliefs of early Christianity selected so as to give the twenty-first century Christian an opportunity to compare his or her beliefs with beliefs found in the NT, with the intent of reaffirming faithfulness to what Jude called, “the faith once for all delivered to the saints,” (Jude 3).

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Belief in God
Creation Demands a Creator
He Has Made His Name Known
Belief in the Name
Supernatural Nature of God
Moral Nature of God
Three Faces of God
God In Our Midst
The Holy Spirit of God
Scriptures
Authority of the Message
Covenants
The Salvation of Mankind
Community of Believers
Higher Morality
Concerning Afterlife