11pq GGS Paul maps future Church History in Eph1:3-14

Watch in HD, fullscreen. Intro to Diocletian, and Paul's witty satire tracking the origin of that Emperor's regnal policies, which caused 'the catholic church' to form under his successor, Constantine the Great.

Virtually every facet of RCC organization and persecution of other Christians and non-Christians which was institutionalized under Constantine, was structurally original to Diocletian, even to colors and terms like 'diocese'. Couldn't ask for better proof that the RCC is a late development, and is manifestly NOT Biblical. So you don't have to wait for Rev 17's satirical 'seven hills' title (which Constantine also used for his Byzantine replacement). Paul's text here, is the basis for Rev 17's.

Proof of all that you can test, is EXTENSIVELY linked to many independent scholarly sources, in the 'Chrono Chart' of the video's doc: http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc ; its pdf copy: http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf . The doc original is far easier to use. (Adobe can't read most of its links.)

11r will go through the ChronoChart, but I won't have time to make that video for at least a month or two. Meanwhile, you can read the Chart and its many books in both the original Latin, Greek, or English. Recommend you also look on Google Books and Amazon under 'Diocletian', which has books you can freely read online (some of which I've linked, as well).

Video's link displaying the Emperors, is a series of websites written by scholars at universities whose books you can buy at Amazon, etc. Link is: http://www.roman-emperors.org/impindex.htm

Crisis of the Third century Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century . Search on that term also in REPARSED.doc, for other links to more scholarly stuff on the period.

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