{"id":364,"date":"2026-01-18T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/?p=364"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:17:35","slug":"what-is-primitive-christianity%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"What is Primitive Christianity\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/?p=362\">\u21d2\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u3092\u30af\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u3057\u3066\u306d\uff01<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In general, <em>Primitive Christianity<\/em> is understood to have begun around AD 33, when the disciples started their preaching work after the death of Jesus Christ in the first century.<br>However, our study group holds the conviction that there can be no difference whatsoever between the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of his faithful disciples. For this reason, we regard the true starting point of Primitive Christianity as the time when Jesus Christ himself began his ministry, around AD 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Here, we use the term <em>Primitive Christianity<\/em> to mean <strong>authentic Christianity<\/strong>\u2014a faith untouched by the various impure teachings that gradually crept in during later periods. It is like pure wine, into which no foreign substance has been mixed. We also use this term as synonymous with <em>Early Christianity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is difficult to determine precisely when such impurities first began to enter Christian teaching. Nevertheless, we consider the end of the \u201cpure\u201d period to be around AD 150, when even among the so-called <em>Apostolic Fathers<\/em>, only a small number can truly be described as faithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">After that time, although there were surely individuals who tried to practice \u201cpure\u201d Christianity\u2014people who shone like points of light\u2014the Christian community as a whole was gradually swallowed up by spiritual \u201cdarkness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Among the teachings that our study group identifies as \u201cimpure\u201d are the <strong>clerical hierarchy<\/strong>, the <strong>Trinity<\/strong>, the <strong>immortality of the soul<\/strong>, <strong>veneration of Mary<\/strong>, and <strong>veneration of saints<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">How, then, did deviation from Primitive Christianity progress under the influence of these teachings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to explore this question in depth under the theme:<br><strong>\u201cDeviation from Primitive Christianity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11aec3eabeeb5a1ccfcd6f4ba714be5d wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"bold-green\">Please feel free to leave a comment!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u21d2\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u3092\u30af\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u3057\u3066\u306d\uff01 In general, Primitive Christianity is understood to have begun around AD 33, when the dis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us-pcsg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primitivechristianitystudy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}