Ancient Rome The Rise And Fall Of An Empire: Constantine 8

Constantine and the Christianisation of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the battle of the Milvian Bridge and ending with the death of Fausta and Licinius, this edition shows how the Emperor Constantine brought Christianity to the western world. In AD 312, Rome was in crisis. The empire had been divided into four parts, each with its own emperor who fought one another. Constantine intervened and united Rome, using military might and a new religion - Christianity.

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[tenmon83]

@Lhein33 " The Church experiences its faith even before its recording. "

That is precisely what makes it vulnerable to distortion over time. And in the time of Constantine they realize that there is so much heresy that the emperor is needed to act. And that's basically the beginning of Christian inquisition and the eclipse of non-Christianity in the west.

[israeliteindeed]

True Christians have been a small group throughout the ages. Constantine was not a true Christian but the beginning of the Apostate system which Christ will crush at his return. There has always been a small group of true believers, you just need to search it out and you will find it. Constantine is in the book of revelation.Seek it out you will find it. True believers have the key.

[Lhein33]

@255ad I'm pretty sure that the ancient christian works suggest that the dipole orthodoxy (right faith) vs heresy existed since the time of the apostles. Eg John & Paul warn Christians to be careful when sb preaches sth different than the gospel, Ireneaus (2nd cent) wrote Adversus Haereses etc.

The Synods were occasional events, they took place only when a heresy arose first; they didn't intend to write a christian manifest/charter. The Church experiences its faith even before its recording.

[255ad]

@Lhein33 "agree that Christians had a strictly defined faith long before Constantine" I'm really really ignorant on this subject, but based on the little I've been told as I understand it it was generally agreed but not "strictly defined" what a Christian was, that was the point of the Nicene Creed to specifically define what beliefs some one had to have to truthfully call them self a Christian

[Lhein33]

@255ad Τhe works of the Christians of the first 3 centuries (Ignatius, Hippolytus, Justin, Athenagoras, Irenaeus, Tertullian) agree that Christians had a strictly defined faith long before Constantine (trinity, divinity of Jesus, existence of special priesthood-clergy etc). Only a fanatic or ignorant can doubt that.

The synods just expressed in official expressions what the Church already believed in. The Church & its beliefs existed even before the writing of the New Testament (1st cent AD).

[255ad]

@MissedTheMark you asked what a "miracle" was and what "everything" meant

P.S "Reality lies into the eye of the beholder" not it doesn't

[MissedTheMark]

@255ad What were the questions?

[255ad]

@MissedTheMark you asked those questions as if they where unanswerable, when are in fact easily answerable 

[MissedTheMark]

@255ad And your point is??

[255ad]

@Categorycinque most Christians are ignorant about their faith, most everybody is ignorant about a lot of things they really should know before forming an opinion on an entire range of subjects