The following is a commentary on Christendom by Ecumenical Metropolitan of Antioch, Auriel Jones. This commentary on Christendom and its history has been written and published for the sake of those seeking to understand what, why, and how Christianity came to be as it has developed to the present age.
Christianity—the fullness of the faith of Adam and Eve—began with the ministry of the Lord Jesus the Christ who is God in the second Person of the Great and Holy Trinity, that the protoevangelion be fulfilled as God in His majesty promised to all-the-creation in the Book of Origin—commonly attributed to Saint Moses the Prophet and simply known as Genesis to those outside, according to the third chapter and fifteenth verse.
As Christianity began, being the genuine successor or fulfillment to the Second Temple faith which further schismed—meaning, divided or separated—into the contemporary religion of Judaism—or, Rabbinical Judaism by those disciples of the Pharisees which stood against the Glorious Prince of Peace—the Christian faith simply known as "The Way" proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus the Christ through men such as the first Apostles of the Christ, their successors the Church Fathers, and countless evangelists in order to fulfill the Great Commission according to Saint Matthew 28:16-20 so the whole world may know the God who made the Heavens and Earth and choose to align themselves either toward or against Him without abuse from those claiming to follow Him. While they proclaimed the news from the Great and Holy Kingdom, with God as the Eternal Sovereign for He is the source of all things seen and unseen, persecution arose against the followers of The Way who became known as Christians in a manner to deride followers of Jesus the Christ, and who are constituents of the Kingdom and assemblymen of the Church of Christ. Jesus instructed the Church that persecution shall always be against her, for those within the Church are wed to the Christ that was persecuted and crucified. Yet nevertheless as those in the Church were persecuted and still so to this very day, He also instructed His disciples that the gates of Hades shall never prevail over them. Consequently in persecution, God sent Constantine the Great to unify the Empire of Rome and issue the Edict of Milan, legalizing the Church of Christ and her faith and further establishing an age of growth for her, though that Harlot Babylon the Great sought the further destruction of the Church of Christ from within as the Church prevailed over Hades. The Church of Christ, growing in the number of disciples desiring to be made whole, trialed many antichrist heresies within from the Whore of Babylon, such as those of the Docetists, Montanists, and Arians.
The Church of Christ remained triumphant against the antichrist heresies, especially that of Arius the Heresiarch of Alexandria, who was trialed duly in the Council of Nicaea. However, in her blessed victory according to the promise of Jesus the Christ, those powers within seeking her destruction deposed those righteous bishops of the Christ thereafter and enabled the appointment of caesaropapist men who blindly followed the decree of what would then become known as the Imperial Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church of Christ or State Church of the Roman Empire, whose descendants are counted among the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the [Roman] Catholic Church, [Eastern] Orthodox Catholic Church, and several of those Protesting churches which sought not the restoration of their beliefs, rather, the further growing of apostasy into a universal counter-church, mingling with those false religions outside of Christianity after they've mingled with those internally. Notwithstanding that terrible coup during and after the Council of Nicaea, the Church of Christ remained steadfast outside of the state-sanctioned church, with those faithful souls within Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, and Alexandria continuing to preserve the faith for over a thousand years in persecution, and proclaiming the unadulterated Gospel from Jesus the Christ into Europe, Africa, and Asia toward the world, rectifying the woes of those descendants and their colonial injustices such as forced conversions, etc.
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