Question: Did the early Church survive after Jerusalem fell?
They declined with the deaths of the Apostles, and were in a state of torpor with the “Church Fathers” for some time, until Constantine formalized the “Roman Church”.
That continued for a few hundred years in two locations, Constantinople and Rome, with various conflicts with other so-called Popes!
By the years 1000-+, the Eastern Church separated into its own orbit, due to the new teachings introduced by Rome, which it could not accept.
As is well known, the start of the return to truth (Bible) did not begin until Martin Luther.
Others followed, and because of the power of the Popes, various wars and problems led to the Roman Church becoming more powerful than Kings, which led to them having the power of “life and death”, which eventually led to the ”Protestant Revival” (peoples and countries protesting)!
The Protestants have divided into many “sects”, many of which have lost their original purity to Scripture (the Bible)!
This has led to many people becoming confused with the many differing teachings!
However, that fact in itself, has led to “faith-based Salvation”; which was Martin Luther’s original discovery, which coincides with the Apostle Paul’s great “uncovering”; (“the just shall live by Faith”).
See:
Faithfulness and The Christian.
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