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Paul Younan....

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Wednesday, October 4 2006, 17:55:40 (CEST)
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...whatever happened to him anyway? I remember his telling me that the Romans had NOTHING to do with BetNahrain and couldn`t have converted us to Christ...by force, of course....tuens out he was wrong or lying...but lying for Jesus, so it`s okay.

For a few centuries the Romans were in Mesopotamia...their wars against the Persiansd were all fought there and the Euphrates river was the usual border between Persia and Rome.

Durant again...

"In 337 he(Shapur II) renewed the war with Rome for mastery of the trade routes to the Far East, and continued it, with pacific intervals, almost till his death. The conversion of Rome and Armenia to Christianity gave the old struggle a new intensity, as if the gods, in Homeric frenzy, had joined the fray. Through forty years Shapur fought a long line of Roman emperors. Julian drove him back to Ctesiphon, but retreated ingloriously; Jovian, outmanuevered, was forced to a peace (363) that yeilded to Shapur the Roman provinces on the TIGRIS (emphasis mine), and all Armenia."

...this indicates that Armenia was part of Rome`s conquests...as were lands up to the Tigris...this is just after the time that Constantine forced Romans to become Christians...it stands to reason that if he felt a single dumb religion was best to hold his own people together..succeeding emperors, who were all Christian, so-called (except Julian The Apostate) would have felt even more so about the outlying parts of the empire...no doubt there was a furious rush on to convert the people of BetNahrain to Christ...

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