In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.