House Church Skepticism! Are They legal! Are the Sane!

My oh my how things have changed. The Church of 30AD to about 250 AD were all house churches. There are few, if any known "Church" buildings.

"......in AD 380 bishops Theodosius and Gratian ordered that there should be only one state-recognized Catholic Church, and one rule-set of faith—the orthodox dogma. Each Roman citizen was forced to become a member of the Catholic Church and was made to adopt the lex fidei, the law of faith. Other groups and movements—including those meeting in homes—were forbidden. That meant the legal end of the house church. This law turned the rules upside down.

Until the rule of Severus around AD 222—35, church buildings had not even been allowed by the government, and house churches were the only way for Christians to meet. But from AD 380 on, those involved with starting a house church were breaking the law and viewed as criminals. Thus began a new era: the persecution of the church in the name of the “church.” The Inquisition, a religious-political joint venture in the form of a Christian “faith police,” had lifted its bloody head, killing millions of followers of Christ in the name of organized Christian religion.

(The House Church Book. Wolfgang Simson. Barna, 2009, pg 20)