Who was Constantine?

http://www.facingthechallenge.org/constantine.php

In 'The Da Vinci Code,' Dan Brown claims that the Roman emperor Constantine chose the gospels he wanted included in the Bible and destroyed others. He had Jesus made divine by a vote. Who was Constantine?

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[dcouchman]

"... without CTG Christianity would have fizzled out as a fringe following with barely any historical remnants to show for it."

This isn't entirely right: *before* Constantine, Christianity grew from nothing to 20 million or more adherents, during three hundred years in which Christians were often persecuted. It seems likely that Constantine had to take notice of Christianity because it had become so large. In many ways, the 'conversion' of Constantine did not do Christianity any favours.

[bennyfifty]

Constantine only converted to Christianity because the pagan religions would not forgive him for killing his son and wife. The sign in the sky is pure fairytale. Imagine it, Christianity was born out of a murderer emperor, not unlike Islam was spread by a pedophile and mass murderer Muhammad.

[junglemike72]

To sum it up, he was a Pagan. There you go.

[152Mona]

@bennyfifty you sound ignorant and to for you to judge other as if you are God is BIZZAR LETS KEEP OUR OPINIONS AND COMMENTS TO OURSELVES WE ALL KNOW RELIGION AND OUR PERSONAL BELIEF MAY NEVER COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING FOR OTHERS !!!

[SeraphimSword]

So wrong it's laughable!!! Constantine came centuries after Christ. Why do you think the "Christian" problem was growing in pre-Christendom Rome??? The earliest Gospel written  "Mark" depicts Christ as the son of God. Christians are Christians today because of the Gospel. So humanity saw Jesus as Christ long before the Nicene Council.. This might be one of the LAMEST arguments proposed by ignorant and pathetic atheists.

[uncatila]

iranious , tyrtulian etc

[uncatila]

to see what the Christians believed look to the writings of the early fathers

[soldatheero]

@bennyfitty Christianity was born under Jesus not constatine, I'm not a believer but your statement implies you completely over-estimate the importance of constantine. Nothing was going to stop Christianity.

[MJFAN666]

@bennyfifty True story. loll. "Religion started when the first liar met the first fool" - Twain.

Mary was a liar and Joseph, here, was the idiottt.

[xheki30]

Who was Constatin who are they people now, are they ilir or Albanian or who or Italian becaus as we now he is born at Nissus?

[Lhein33]

@bennyfifty 1. Paganism wasn't so strict against crimes & ofc it wasn't stricter than Christianity. In fact it didn't pay much attention to morality generally.

2. It is not proven under which circumstances Constantine's wife & son died. Besides, assassinations were common in the ancient royal families. Constantine was a man of his age.

3. Constantine didn't give birth to Christianity; Christianity existed for 3 centuries before him & had millions of believers. Constantine simply made it legal.

[xxdiogenescynicxx]

@bennyfifty What about Judaism?

[dtl25021988]

Jesus Christ is so different from any Muslim. He was loving caring and merciful to people on general. He followed principles and also stand against persecutions among the prostitutes and women in Israel. He is the messiah and savior of this world and his death was neccessary so that man can recieve blessings. God loves u know matter if u are black,gay,white,Asian,Muslim,h­indu or even Arabic he died for the sins of all just accept his word and u would be saved