Brief History of Christianity by Hyrum Smith
Submitted by baker on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 12:12
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- 1 AD: Jesus Christ born
- 30-33 AD: Jesus Christ's ministry and atoning sacrifice on the cross
- 43 AD: Peter travels to Rome to teach them the gospel of Jesus Christ; Linus founds the Catholic Church based on Peter's teachings
- 44 AD: Apostasy begins (God withdraws his true church from the earth), 2 churches
- 60 AD: Nero burns Rome and kills Linus #2
- 66-70 AD: Jerusalem destroyed by Romans
- 75 AD: Roman Catholic (universal)
- 96 AD
- 101 AD: Book of Revelations complete; Apostasy complete; Dark Ages begin
- 320 AD: Constantine wants only 1 religion practiced throughout the Roman Empire; Niceane Creed states that the Trinity is one (God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost are NOT separate entities)
- 325 AD: Church of State; Reign of Popes begins (Emperor = Pope)
- 725 AD: Empress Irene; 2nd Nicea Council establishes practice of canonizing saints (worshiping Apostles and others besides God)
- 900 AD: Pope Joanaia is secretly a woman and becomes pregnant as documented by the Lutheran Church
- 1100 AD: 3 Popes fight
- 1200 AD: printing press invented and bibles become available to the public; Boss Pope Imosen III runs out of money in the process of fighting 3 wars and develops the practice of the Sale of Indulgences (people pay for forgiveness or even prepay for future sins) to fund his wars
- 1300 AD: European revolution, the Renaissance, many people begin to read
- 1492 AD: Columbus discovers America
- 1515 AD: German monk named Martin Luther does research and discovers that the practices of Canonizing and the Sale of Indulgences were not found in old documents; Martin Luther develops 95 questions about Christian doctrine and posts them on doors to bring about awareness and reform in the Church
- 1523 AD: European princes like Martin Luther's ideas of not having to pay for the Sale of Indulgences and so they offer him their protection, thus Christian authorities decide to excommunicate Martin Luther rather than murder him
- 1534 AD: Henry VIII request to divorce his wife turned down by the Catholic Church, so he establishes his own church, the Church of England (Episcopal) ushering in the 100 Year War
- 1540 AD: John Calvin, Paris; Hugonauts (Presbyterian movement)
- 1560 AD: John Knox and the Puritan movement
- 1575 AD: Paris pogrom (killing in the name of God) masacre of Protestants
- 1620 AD: Puritans land at Plymouth Rock, establish their own society intolerant of other religions
- 1776 AD: United States Declaration of Independence
- 1781 AD: George Washington's miraculous victories could not have occurred without the help of God
- 1787 AD: Articles of Confederation; United States Constitution; Freedom of Religion established as law for the first time in mankind's history
- 1805 AD: Joseph Smith born
- 1812 AD: War of 1812; British blow up the White House; U.S.S. Constitution kicks naval butt
- 1817 AD: Karl Marx born (adversary)
- 1820 AD: Joseph Smith witnesses God and Christ in his question for the true church
- 1830 AD: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is officially established (something only possible with the law of Freedom of Religion)
This brief history is a testimony to the truthfulness of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Specifically, this testimony offers an inspirational answer to the question of why God would reestablish his true church on American soil in 1830, after more than 1700 years of Apostasty. The same pattern occurs in the Old Testament:
- God sends a prophet
- the people draw closer to God for a time
- then they drift away again and kill the Lord's prophet, which angers the Lord
- God punishes mankind by withdrawing his true church and waiting awhile before he gives mankind another prophet