Two Sources of Pressure for Early Christianity Came From

question 17

Multiple Choice

Two sources of pressure for early Christianity came from:

• A) too many converts and too few bishops.
• B) internal heresies and external disintegration of the Roman order.
• C) the Gnostic writers and persecutions directed from Jerusalem.
• D) Roman persecution and the destruction of Jerusalem.
• E) the destruction of Jerusalem and the "anti-pope" of Alexandria.

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