The lessons of Christianity were that there could have been no other God with the exception of Christos and that Christians were not to venerate some other divine beings. The refusal to acknowledge the antiquated Roman religion and love the divine forces of the state was viewed as treachery in the Roman world. This was the reason for the majority of the abuses against the Christians before the hour of Constantine. Christians denied the presence of the states divine beings and would not adore the lords of the Roman pantheon which lead them to be viewed as agnostics. In A.D 112 one of the early letters we have of government authorities concluding how to manage Christians was composed by Pliny who had been sent from Rome by the head Trajan to reestablish request in the Territory of Bithynia-Pontus. One of the issues Pliny needed to manage concerned how to manage the Christians; there was a lot of Christians in the region where Pliny had been shipped off oversee.

Grievances were rested against certain Christians that brought about capture and being sent before Pliny to be inspected; those that would not retract and acknowledge the states divine beings and religion were executed, on the grounds that Pliny felt that simply their simple willfulness concerning Christianity and the state religion merited a discipline of some kind. Anyway some from the beginning said they were Christians however when undermined with execution they said they were once Christians yet presently they were no longer Christians and others expressed that they had never been Christians. Pliny had never managed this issue and kept in touch with the head Trajan to get some counsel on some solution for the issue of Christians. Pliny wanted to find out whether the age of the blamed changed the sort for discipline, furthermore how to manage those that had disavowed their Christian confidence and thirdly, whether the simple calling of christianity ought to be viewed as a wrongdoing and culpable thusly, free of the reality of the honesty or culpability of the blamed for the violations usually connected with such calling.

Trajan answered in a manner that might have brought about priority that was set all through the subsequent hundred years in respects of how to manage Christians in the Roman Domain. Trajan supported the moves that were made by Pliny and furthermore gave further guidance. Trajan trained that the judges and authorities were not to go out and look for Christians to rebuff them and assuming somebody was accounted for similar to a Christian and that individual conceded he was a Christian and afterward they were to be rebuffed in all probability with execution. Trajan likewise taught Pliny not to follow up on unknown reports to the justices and those that retracted their Christian confidence and forfeited to the state divine beings were to be delivered and acquitted.