He merged them into an empire
that lasted for centuries.
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[Battle sounds.]
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This is his story. A story
of romance, intrigue, power
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and conquest.
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The life of Constantine
the Great is something of a
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miracle story. It's packed
full of amazing coincides,
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the most unlikely outcomes,
and astonishing achievements.
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He was born to a peasant girl
under a cloud of illegitimacy.
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For the first nine years of
his life, nobody knew that his
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real father was the governor of
Dalmatia an important province
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of the Roman Empire and a
position assigned to people
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of power and influence.
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Not only did Constantine
eventually come to know his
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real father because of an
unexpected altercation with
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some guests of the stable of his
grand-father's Inn, but he ended
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up living in, of all
places, the very palace of the
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Roman Emperor himself.
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For 12 years
Constantine worked directly
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for the emperor Diocletian,
he learned how to administer
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an empire and witness first-hand
all kinds of momentous events.
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He watched the emperor success-
fully crush a rebellion in Egypt
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and he was there when the
official persecution of the
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Christians began
in the year A.D. 303.
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Unbelievably his own mother
became a Christian, then Emperor
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Diocletian unexpectedly
abdicated. Constantine saw his
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opportunity to seize
power, he fled the palace and
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joined his father in
Britain and there in York
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he was crowned Augustus,
Ruler of the Western Empire.
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But he wanted more than that,
he wanted the entire empire
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and so marched on Rome.
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On the way, he saw a super-
natural phenomena in the sky,
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he saw a cross of light super
imposed on the sun and attached
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in Greek were the words.
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Now Constantine himself a
pagan sun worshiper converts and
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embraces Christianity and
his army with his new symbol
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the Chia-Roh emblazoned on
their shields is victorious
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at the famous battle of the
Milvian Bridge and now the gates
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of Rome lay open before him.
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Constantine, the illegitimate
child of a peasant girl
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is now the most powerful man
on earth, the Emperor of Rome.
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And what he does next
will change the world forever.
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Constantine's victory at the
Battle of the Millville Bridge
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was to define the world we live
in today it was a turning point
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in history. Constantine the
Great has influenced the way
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we think the way we
live and what we believe.
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He was a Game Changer.
He was strongly influenced
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by his mother's religion
and credited the Christian God
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with being
responsible for his victory.
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In return, Constantine pulled
Christianity out of the shadows
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and made it the premier
religion of the Roman Empire
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Shortly after
defeating Maxentius at the
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Battle of the Milvian
Bridge Constantine entered Rome
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he proved himself remarkably
generous and magnanimous to his
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former enemies that included
the senate of Rome who had
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supported Maxentius.
Instead of exacting revenge
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and executing the senators
Constantine promised to restore
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them to their
former power and glory.
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The senate was so grateful
that it commissioned the
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construction of the
Arch of Constantine.
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This magnificent
monument that you can still
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visit in the
heart of Rome today.
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That day when Constantine
rode victoriously into Rome
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was the day that the paths
of Jesus and Constantine finally
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met decisively, it was a
clash of empires, Rome and
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Christianity, it was a clash
of cultures, beliefs and faiths
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but there's a strange twist
to this clash of empires...
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What happened next was
so explosive that it changed
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everything, it changed the Roman
Empire, the Christian Church,
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world politics, and the
way we see the world today
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Constantine made the radical
decision to merge these two
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empires, to combine them
into one but there's more to it
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than meets the eye.
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You see, under Constantine
the Christian religion changed
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because the Prince of Peace had
now become The Roman God of War.
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Jesus moved from being the God
of the outcast and persecuted
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to the God of the Roman Empire.
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Under Constantine Christians
were no longer a fringe group
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instead, they are at the
heart of the empire itself.
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Constantine's Edict of Milan
in A.D. 313 gave Christians
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freedom of religion and equal
rights throughout the empire
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he appointed Christians to
high office and gave Christian
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priests the same
privileges as pagan ones...
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Christians were given
the keys to Imperial Power.
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Constantine quickly went on to
conquer the rest of the empire
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and reunite all of
Rome's lands under one banner
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he became its sole
ruler, the most powerful man
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on earth.
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Though Constantine would
prove to be a good emperor,
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the most important consequence
of his victory was religious.
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Constantine knew that he was
going to have to find some way
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to keep the vast empire together
some way to achieve harmony
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enter Christianity. Constantine
admired the Christian strength
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commitment and endurance, he was
also impressed by their unity
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he had seen the way
they stood together against
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persecution, they appeared so
perfectly united, so perfectly
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in agreement that nothing
could make them fall and that's
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what he wanted for his
empire and he quickly realized
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that if he could only
use Christianity to create a
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population which was
as dedicated to the empire
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as the Christians were to
Christ. It would seal and secure
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his imperial authority. His
strategy was clear and simple
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Constantine would try
to hold the empire together
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by uniting pagans and Christians
in one great system of religion.
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However, if Constantine did
ever convert to Christianity
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himself, his fate was hardly
worthy of the Prince of Peace.
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Constantine had no problem
murdering relatives whom he
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considered political threats
and that included his wife
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and son. His 21 year old son
Crispus had just won a brilliant
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military victory. Constantine
may have felt threatened by his
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rising popularity so Constantine
had him put to death.
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Then he murdered his wife
by basically boiling her in a
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hot bathtub. Remember the
words of Jesus in Matthew 7:20.
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There's no question that
Constantine knew about the
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Christian God, he respected
the faith and admired the
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dedication of Christians however
respecting God and submitting
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your life and will to
Him are two different things.
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Constantine believed that if he
could merge the Christian Church
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with Rome and this would be the
recipe to long-term political
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stability so he became actively
involved in church affairs
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and administration.
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The state and the church
became more and more entwined
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and interlocked. Back then Egypt
was a hotbed of controversy
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among Christians and a
contentious issue arose
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that caused deep division
and threatened the unity
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of the church. The dispute
centered around where the
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Christians who had given up
their faith and left the church
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during the earlier persecution
should be allowed back into
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the church now that
the persecution had ended
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and it was safe to
be a Christian again.
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Those who had stayed in
the church called those who had
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caved in under the
persecution and left the church
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Traditores that's actually where
the word Traitor comes from.
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The Bishop there was in
favor of letting them back in
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but the hard-line Christians
who didn't want the traitors
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back in, wanted their
own man to be the Bishop
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his name was Donatus Magnus
that's why this was called
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the Donatus Controversy.
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The controversy was
threatening to tear the church
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apart and when the warring
factions couldn't solve the
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problem themselves, they
asked the emperor to step in
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and resolve this
internal church dispute.
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This was a pivotal
moment, a radical departure
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from how Christians previously
resolved their internal
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disputes. The state had given
the church religious liberty and
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now the church had put the
power over its internal affairs
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in the hands of the state.
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In A.D. 314, Constantine
called all the bishops from
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across the empire to
help decide the matter
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and the case went against
the Donatus, it went in favor of
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allowing the
traitors back into the church.
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But the Donatus wouldn't accept
their decision and Constantine
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was furious. He threatened
them with severe consequences
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if they didn't fall into line.
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This was the first time
that the force of the state
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had been threatened in order
to settle an internal church
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dispute. The state was
getting more and more involved
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in church affairs and the
emperor wanted to establish
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a unified definition of
what Christians believe.
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And so he organized
and personally attended the
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Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325.
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It was held in modern-day Turkey
and is one of the most important
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church councils in history.
Early Christians had always
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determined their beliefs
based on what the Bible proved
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and fortunately their
well- established Bible position
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on the divinity of Christ
and the books of the Bible
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were accepted at Nicaea but now
a change began to take place.
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The state and outside
influences rather than the Bible
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began to interfere and determine
what the church believed.
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The Bible was no longer the
authority in religious matters,
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the emperor himself had a
say and played a major role.
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The Council of Nicaea helped
to underscore Constantine's
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new role as the head
of the Christian church
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and helped to seal the
marriage of church and state
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that would define the
church from that day forward.
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But the standard for truth
for Christians is not the state,
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not the emperor, but
the scriptures, the Bible.
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Here's what is says in 2Timothy
chapter 3 verses 16 and 17.
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Starting from Constantine
however, the Christian church
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was flooded with opportunity
seekers from the general Roman
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public. That was because
Christianity now had the favor
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of the emperor. Christianity
became popular so much so
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that pagans were
baptized into the church.
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Now the term paganism was
first used in the 4th century by
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early Christians to describe
people in the Roman Empire
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who practiced Polytheism,
that is, who worship many Gods
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rather than the one true God
that the Christians worshipped.
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These pagans joined the church
but they also brought many
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of their pagan images,
beliefs and practices with them.
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Here's what one
historian writes.
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Here's another historian,
Bruce Shelley in his book
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Church History
in plain language.
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This is the record of
History, the facts are clear
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here's another historian.
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And so quietly and gradually
beliefs, practices, and
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doctrines that had
never been taught by Jesus,
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doctrines that are not found in
the Bible crept into the church.
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False teachings crept
into the church and many of the
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great truths
Jesus gave were lost.
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The church, the fortress
of truth that Jesus and the
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apostles built was weakened
and reduced to ruins by the
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insidious introduction
and spread of pagan objects,
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beliefs and practices.
And by accommodating paganism
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and compromising with the state,
what our Christian ancestors did
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was to launch what we
might call a substitute empire.
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It looked like Christianity,
it sounded like Christianity,
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but it had some real
problems, it was an imposter, a
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counterfeit. Roman style
politics and paganism had found
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their way into the Christian
Church and its governments.
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Over the years the church
became less about fulfilling the
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gospel commission and looking
forward to the return of Christ
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and more about the
earthly governments.
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With the Roman Emperor
at the head of the church
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Christians began to
handle matters the same way that
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Constantine did based out
of using coercion and force
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rather than persuasion.
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The persecution and killing of
other Christians by Christians
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using state-sanctioned
force began from the time of
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Constantine. But that
wasn't what Jesus taught,
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rather He said this
in Matthew chapter 22:21.
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But with Constantine, Christians
started burying the lines
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between what belonged to
God and what belonged to Caesar.
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Constantine was willing to
sacrifice the teachings of the
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Bible in order to make it
as easy as possible for pagans
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to join the church.
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This included transferring
many of the holy pagan days
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to Christianity in order to make
it easier for pagans to convert
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that's why the most holy
days in the Christian colander
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all have their origins in
paganism. Constantine just took
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the pagan holy days and
gave them a different name
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but kept their pagan
traditions and symbols.
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In A.D. 321 Constantine even
passed a law forbidding work
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on Sunday, the law said.
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When Constantine passed that
law while he was influenced by
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Christianity he hadn't
forsaken paganism either,
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that's probably why he referred
to the first day of the week
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as the venerable day of the sun.
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The first day of the week was
considered sacred to the sun god
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by the ancient Romans, that's
why we call it Sunday today.
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What Constantine
did was Christianize it
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and then use the force of
the state to make it mandatory.
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Here's how historians record it.
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Four years later at Nicaea
Constantine did the same with
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Easter. It was originally a
pagan festival, it pre-dated
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Christ by thousands of
years and was associated with
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re-birth and fertility using
rabbits and eggs as its symbols.
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At the Council of Nicaea
in A. D. 325, it was adopted
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as a celebration of
the resurrection of Christ.
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It was officially confirmed
as a Christian celebration
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and tied to the Lunar cycle.
According to the Easter rule,
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it had to be celebrated on
the first Sunday that occurs
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after the full moon on
or after the vernal equinox.
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Then Christmas was officially
adopted as a Christian
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celebration during
this period as well,
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no one knows the real birthday
of Jesus, no date is given
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in the Bible. The pagans
celebrated the birth of Mithra,
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the sun god on
the 25th of December.
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So under Constantine, it was
accepted the birthday of Jesus
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and the church in Rome began
formally celebrating Christmas
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on the 25th of
December in A.D. 336.
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And so with all this happening
the two empires merged,
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Christianity and Rome
became entwined and interlocked.
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Due to Constantine, many
of our Christian holy days,
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symbols, traditions, customs
and beliefs have pagan DNA.
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Constantine's victory over
the Battle of the Milvian Bridge
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has defined the
world we live in today,
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it was a turning
point in history.
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Constantine the Great has
influenced the way we think,
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the way we live,
and what we believe.
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That's the testimony of history,
his fingerprints are everywhere.
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Here's the report of church
authority Cardinal Henry Newman.
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Now should this surprise us?
Didn't the Bible predict that
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this very thing
would happen to the church?
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Notice the warning of Peter
the apostle in 2 Peter 2:1,2.
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Paul also predicted that
the great truths of the Bible
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would suffer and that new
false teachings would enter the
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church. Notice what he
said in Acts 20: verse 29.
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The apostle Paul warned
that after his death changes and
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compromise would way-lay
the church and this is exactly
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what took place, just
as the Bible predicted.
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But there were Christians
in the empire who heeded
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the Bible's warning,
they rejected the changes and
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paganism introduced
by Constantine and others
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they determined to remain true
to the Bible and its teachings,
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they remained faithful to Jesus.
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There were two empires Caesar's
and Christ's, those faithful
00:24:53.66\00:25:00.66
early Christians made their
decision, they decided which
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empire they were
going to belong to.
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It's described in the
Bible book of Daniel 2:44.
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Those early Christians
remembered the promise of Jesus
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found in Luke 12: 32.
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Dear Heavenly Father, We
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through your word the Bible,
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to help us understand our past
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today. Thank you because
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Help us to make
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For we ask this
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