Basically I want Christianity to expand to Asia and Africa instead of Europe, I know that I will need to have no spread to Rome for one, and somehow have to replace that with a spread to Africa and the Middle East. How, and what would happen.
God tells Abraham to go to the land of Oman instead of Canaan. Joseph gets sold by his brothers into the land of Havilah (India) The Jews are slaves unto Maharajah in Havila.
Actually, it could work. Work topsy turvy. But it could work.And work not ASB unless God is an ASB.
your best pod would be from acts chapter 16 where Paul is forbidden by God to preach in Asia and is instead sent to Macedonia. So if you send him east instead of west you get what you want.
Good idea, I think that would work well.smother Christianity in West (by constanstine selecting Sol Invictus or Isis as his religion of choice instead of Christianity ... won't kill Western Christianity, but it wouldn't be more than a minority religion then), and make Thomas the Apostle (who traveled to India) and his followers succeed beyond OTL ... job done ... strong Mesopotamian/far east church ... weak western church
This is quite difficult. Most of what we know as "Christianity" is derived from Platonism; you could have eastern followers of Christ's teachings, but when it comes down to matters like the trinitarian formula and such, they would likely be radically different from Christians today.
Asia here meaning the Roman province of Asia (essentially Turkey) yes?
Anyway you could just have Rome not conquer Judeah and have the Selecuids or Parthians there instead. Then Christianity spreads through Persia rather than Rome.
. Or perhaps an Arabic leader could unite the peninsula ala Mohammed under Christianity instead of Islam (and there were quite a few Christians in pre-Islamic Arabia, even in the parts under Persian influence) and go empire-building.
Over the last couple weeks, I've been thinking that some Arab power would acquire lots of territory in the 7th and 8th centuries even if there is no Islam. I'm not an expert, so does anyone else on this thread know if that's the likely chain of events?