![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, he wanted everybody to know he's a Christian. So he would go out in the streets, and if he saw Roman soldiers arresting a Christian, because they were persecuted at the time, he would run up and throw his arms around the Christian and give them a hug. So as a teenager, he decided the best way to do that was to become a martyr, to literally be sacrificed, to die for Christ. Origen, from a very early age, as a teenager, decided that he wanted to live a life that in sacrifice to God and sacrifice to Jesus Christ. Sometimes you'll hear his name pronounced as Origen. One of the Christian writers from that time period that I find interesting is Origen. There was Paganism mixing and there's just a lot of things going on in that third century. There were doctors that now.things that were taught to be considered heresies. There were a lot of different things that many Christians believe today. And it gives us an insight to the diversity and ideas of what was Christianity in the third century. Many of their works have been translated into English. In the third century, we have a number of Christian theologians that wrote volumes of work that we have.actually have copies up today.
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