Is he going to write bad about Roman government when he himself also a roman.
Well, exactly. From the beginning there was a constant struggle between whether Christianity was too "Jewish" or not. There were many, many controversies surrounding this, leaders going as far as to say the disciples themselves has misunderstood what Jesus had said to them, etc. There were a couple of key apologists in the first couple of centuries, on both sides, that, without whom, I really think this little religion would have died out easily and been reabsorbed back into mainstream sects of Judaism and various Roman cults of the time. The thing is that this gave them something to get behind and argue about.
It also makes sense why, when the Roman emperor himself converted to Christianity, the writings of another Roman eventually became the foremost canonical works included in the Bible. Meaning, the Christianity that finally came to be under Constantine, a Roman emperor, was influenced highly by his ordering of 50 copies of the books that were of the list that Eusebius,a Roman, had compiled. Eusebius' list was based on Origen's work, who was probably Egyptian by birth, but spent nearly all of his life in preaching and studying throughout the Roman empire in various capacities, especially in Caesarea, which just happens to be where Eusebius was born and grew up. So, not really surprising that he would have used his texts and teachings as a basis for his own version of Christianity, either.
Re: Eyewitness accounts Continued
Well, exactly. From the beginning there was a constant struggle between whether Christianity was too "Jewish" or not. There were many, many controversies surrounding this, leaders going as far as to say the disciples themselves has misunderstood what Jesus had said to them, etc. There were a couple of key apologists in the first couple of centuries, on both sides, that, without whom, I really think this little religion would have died out easily and been reabsorbed back into mainstream sects of Judaism and various Roman cults of the time. The thing is that this gave them something to get behind and argue about.
It also makes sense why, when the Roman emperor himself converted to Christianity, the writings of another Roman eventually became the foremost canonical works included in the Bible. Meaning, the Christianity that finally came to be under Constantine, a Roman emperor, was influenced highly by his ordering of 50 copies of the books that were of the list that Eusebius,a Roman, had compiled. Eusebius' list was based on Origen's work, who was probably Egyptian by birth, but spent nearly all of his life in preaching and studying throughout the Roman empire in various capacities, especially in Caesarea, which just happens to be where Eusebius was born and grew up. So, not really surprising that he would have used his texts and teachings as a basis for his own version of Christianity, either.