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

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

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

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

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

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.