I'm studying church history at FAU in Erlangen. This is entertaining but a bit sensationalistic, as if the journalist has discovered something that the scholars did not know. I want to clear up some things. Firstly, the theologians, church historians and archaeologists are not all agreed about the extent of Constantine's so-called conversion, which was described by the church father Eusebius in a clearly biased manner. We simply do not have unbiased written accounts from this period! We can, however, look at the laws he created, and his actions. Constantine did make a lot of laws regarding the churches, donated huge sums of money to build churches, outlawed crucifixion and gladiator death matches, granted all Romans freedom of religion and overall was one of the best emperors. However, he also killed his wife and son, and did not officially become a Christian till just before his death. He did not "convert the whole Roman world" to Christianity, but merely legalized and promoted it. Actually, he was unpopular among the pagans because he put so many Christians in high places. There were many religions in the Roman Empire, some were illegal (like the cult of Dionysus), but Constantine legalized Christianity and returned the goods plundered by previous emperors. Christianity did not officially become a state religion until the reign of Theodosius at the end of the century. Constantine also did not "create" Christianity, as some suppose. He did make Dies Sol Invictus (Day of the sun) an official holiday for all Romans, but the Christians had been meeting on Sundays for a long time, so this created a syncretized form of Christianity. Most Christians were converted heathens, so they kept many of their cultural practices and bit by bit adapted them to their "new faith", including adding 25 December, birthday of Mithras, to the Christian calendar as Jesus' birthday. Early Christian theologians such as Justin Martyr and Eusebius saw Mithraism as a satanic counterfeit of Christianity and preached against this heathen cult. Sadly, Constantine was antisemitic towards Jews (mainly due to the political revolts by Jews), and brought Christianity further from its Jewish roots. He also brought some shady theology into it, as well, like the idea that God wanted him to be emperor (otherwise, why did he win the battle). This kind of deterministic triumphalism has afflicted Western Christianity ever since. There really is very little that Yeshua shares with Mithras or Mithraic relgion, except for the imagery (rays of light), the concept of a god having a son (which all Roman religions had) and some pagan rituals which were kept and "christianized" like Christmas. The video talks about Mithras shedding the "eternal blood" of the bull being similar to Jesus shedding his own blood. Well, that really is a stretch. All pagan religions killed animals and shed their blood. Guess which other religion did this? Judaism. Bulls and sheep were killed and the blood "saved" the people from their sins. Most importantly, during Passover, the blood of the lamb saved the people. This is why St. Paul, a Jew, describes Yeshua as a lamb. Eating a communal meal was also a part of Roman paganism (the meat and wine was first offered to their gods). Jewish Christians understood the Eucharist as a form of the Passover Last Supper, but the pagan Christians related it to their background. So, in short, if Mithraism shared some compoenents with Christian rituals, it's because some rituals (prayers, offerings, common meals, words like "eternal", "sacrifice", "immortal", "resurrection") are found in MANY religions, and that Hellenistic Roman culture shared certain elements, including artistic depictions and cultural themes.
********The ETERNAL GOD would do anything for you!! Even out of love for you he went to the cross as a human!!***** Philippians 2,5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ************6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regart equality with God a thing to be grasped************* 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[3] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Yes, but His birth wasn’t celebrated year after year. That came after. Keep in mind, the Old Testament was a foreshadow of the New. The Jewish feast like Passover, First Fruits, Pentecost etc… were highly celebrated in the Jewish community, and they line up with the death of Christ, His resurrection and the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven.
Jesus did not rebel against the Romans but rather criticised the religious authorities of his time. So many errors in this video. Apolo was the Greek Sun God. Sol was the Roman Sun God. Constantine did not found Constaninople city,, but adopted a Greek city Byzantium as his capital, thereafter named after him.
I definitely believe Constantines "religious epiphany" was him realizing Christianity would be a far more efficient method of controlling the masses than brute force alone
@@keith1689 There is no god except Allah and Muhammad, may Allah's blessings and may peace be upon him, is the messenger of Allah. Your purpose is to worship Allah alone.
"Alone" being the key word since we know that, in large part, the Catholic Church didn't convert people through altruism, but through the vicious control of information and the murder of millions!
Simcha Jacobovici is a Jew and those people celebrate every year Hanukkah against Greek influence, so they made a documentary without mention the 12 gods of Rome, the Pantheon, god Helios with the sun rays in his head because all that releted to Greeks
Dont his actions of polytheism speak for themselves? Was the council of Nicea about loving the so called Christ or about creating the dogma needed for a controlling the masses? If He was a Christ follower he would have torn down and stopped sun worship...oh my...We can only judge by actions...
Marlon C. Apparently you have not gone to college, or even had a decent HS class, where you had to complete your own academic research and cite the resource you gleaned your information from, so I won't be too hard on you. They are called primary sources such as historical documents, first-hand knowledge of an event, and peer-reviewed scholarly publications. For example, people might say they know what Jesus the KRST said and yet they are not 2,000 plus year's old.
ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!!! The guy deliberately ignores the most important historical facts ,and distorts others. 1. St.Constantine did not turn to the Christian Faith after his vision. He was brought up by his Greek and Christian mother Helen. 2. Christians in Western Europe where he ruled, were a tiny small minority. He had no reason to present himself as a fervent supporter of this religion, as he would probably be hated by his army and his subjects. 3. The arch of Constantine was decorated by fragments of previous destroyed arches. Therefore there are no secret symbolic meanings , apart from the obvious point that Constantine was a victorious and promising monarch. The supposed Mithra priests statues , are actually Persian officers in chuckles. 4. The overwhelming majority of the empire's population were pagans. Rome had an official state religion ,the one of the Invincible Sun, an Constantine as emperor ,was Pontifex Maximus. There was no way he could declare his Christian faith openly without causing massive reaction or even rebellion. Actually he was secretly baptised at the palace in Constantinople, shortly before his death. He did though something great : He transferred the Capital = the heart of the empire ,from Old pagan Rome, to New Rome ( Constantinople),within a Greek and Christian culture. 5. Similarities between Mithra and Jesus Christ, are tottaly fictitious, and were claimed by dome 19th century anti Christian scholars , without the slightest historical evidence. 6. Constantine was so eager to mix up religions ,that he called the 1st Ecumenical Council, with the participation of over 300 bishops, in order to clarify the doctrines of the Christian Faith. 7. A church in Rome was constructed upon a Mithra temple. What a discovery!!! Hundreds of Churches were constructed upon pagan temples. 8.The Nativity was placed on December 25 ,when pagan feasts were held. That was known right from the beginning, and it was done deliberately, so that it would supplant Roman Saturnalia. 9.The new capital of the empire was named New Rome . It was the people ,that gave gradually the name Constantinople to the City. 10. The column in the square of Beyaziyt mosque, was topped by Theodosius statue ,not Constantine's ,therefore it was called forum of Theodosios. 11. Ravena mosaics were constructed 200 years after Constantine. 12. Constantine couldn't be buried in Holly Apostoles church, as this was built by Justinian 200 years later,and contained real relics of the 12 Apostoles.
I had believed in the documentary and I have also believed in your exposure ...do u have a channel or any social media platform where u have those interesting facts?
One of the best comments on this feed and the only thing I question is #1? I thought Constaintine converted to Christianity much later in life even after the council of nicaea? It seems like he took the opportunity to use the religion for conquest purposes to me. (My personal opinion, you can have your own) Remember he was only a human being like you and me, flawed in more ways than we know. Also, one of the biggest beefs I have with the council of nicaea is that no females were involved or allowed in the picking of the books that went into the bible. I am still baffled to this day that females can be a part of Christianity. The religion that steals from others and claims innocence.
Constantine noting that he had to unite the two armies the army he used and the conquered army of the enemy he had to unite the two with some form of belief emerging at the time in case Christianity, he was just opportunist all along. ...thus, controlling the entire empire, with some form of unified belief...
Sounds plausible but just because it sounds good doesn’t make it the Truth. Seek truth for yourself. To be open to the Truth, one has to become blind. Truth is not transient and thus hard for some to accept and understand.
Why would a Conquerer King want to merge the defeated solders? they are poweless without arms and ne King would have done anything he wanted with them. This logic doesn't fit. Could be that most of the Roman citizenry were christians and he wanted to control the masses through this fusion.
The old question arises here. Did the Church join the Power to acquire more preponderance? Or on the contrary, was it the Power that sought the alliance with the Church?
My father read so many books since he was a kid and he told me this many many years ago. I enjoy learning about different religions but yea.. it surprises me how so many people don’t know about this
@accept challenges ...No surprise here...The whole of the entire Western European religious system is essentially based on the pagan idolatry of Constantine...The Man who will always be known as, "The Emperor" who built the First "House" of "Christendom" for "ROME". .✌😔
PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !! All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice! God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !! JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
@@TS-zd2ud in Psalm 40 David says no sacrifice is needed. So sacrifice is unnecessary. So you have to find a different explanation for Jesus dying on the ✝️ Yes He is God and the son of God, but it needs further reasons.
Constantinopolis (officially New Rome) was not the old Greek city of Byzantium. Two different cities they are, as different as Istanbul, Turkey is to Roman Constantinople as Constantinople is to Byzantium.
The Bible was even introduced by Catholicism 🤣🤣🤣 the Bible we have today was the set of Jewish and Early Christian scriptures that were chosen by Catholic fathers and then compiled these to become the Bible.
Constantine also gathered the bishops around the Roman Empire and led the council of Nicaea in 325 CE which defined the Christian creed permanently. Those followers of Jesus who rejected this Christian creed were crushed, persecuted, murdered and all of their books got burned.
Books? What kind? That of agnostics? Then God allows that so that heresies are stopped and true Christianity evolved out of the apostate Roman Church(RC) . Not all are exterminated by RC , God has His way to spread His gospel outside the heretic organizations aka cults.
The real belief was Jesus peace be upon him was a prophet. They were made to believe in the trinity, much like today you don't believe Jesus is God then you are going hell. How simple a man is to convince him to worship Satan as God. 😂😂😂😂
Yes this comment is true. Many pagan rituals and holidays have been added to Christianity too. Christmas itself has been paganized. Easter or Ishtar as it was. Halloween is NOT a Christian holiday, purely pagan! All these rituals like turning Jesus's death into a bloody sacrifice where you eat his flesh and drink his blood ARE SATANIC! We've been duped!
@Titanium Zone It IS true! I've come across EXACTLY the same information in my own research! It's not like it's a big secret either! Sounds like a little research is just what you need! "The Council of Nicaea was in BC" you said! WRONG! Go read about it before you attack the comment!
An interesting mix of historical perspectives and exaggerated speculations. It's pretty clear that Constantine's Milvian Bridge story is at the very least his own revisionist perspective, years later, told in the company of Christian clergy and almost certainly tailored to that audience. I can also imagine him equating Mithras and Jesus Christ, religiously, and reimagining and reinterpreting what he'd experienced years earlier. He clearly wasn't actually Christian until later in his life, and by most accounts, Constantine didn't convert to Christianity formally until the time of his death. But much of the other speculations in this video - of Constantine seeing himself as divine and possibly the replacement of Jesus is just typical Roman Imperial stuff. All the Roman emperors either actively sought to promote the idea of their own divinity or had it done anyways by the populace (remember Vespasian's comment to his son Titus as he was dying - wryly remarking that he felt like he was 'becoming a God'?). So the video's portrayal of this aspect as somehow unique to Constantine - that he was uniquely self-centered among the Emperors in seeing himself as Godlike - can't be taken seriously. That's what they all did. All-in-all though quite interesting, particularly the detailed analysis by the professional guests of the arch and other artwork and archeological findings.
@@islamsalaam1129 Honestly it is the truth... I do not expect a ruler of a country to be fully devoted to one faith, especially in a free-religion state like Rome back in those days... The Legend of Constantine is a white lie, as I am sure he baptized at the end of his life,which is rather a semi-common tradition to those that are not full Christians... My point is *not everything is black and white* ... An emperor cannot act as Queen E the first or her sister Mary, especially in a country with Mithran elites and poor (to middle) christians... At that time Christianity is on the rise and on parr with Mithra elites, I doubt he can stay at his seat by being full Christian... But I am sure he is attracted to the religion as it supports the poor and the needy like he once was...
@@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 truly even amongst Christianity there are differences of opinions concerning Constantine and Paul. So why should I believe any of them
This is why understanding history is so important as we continue to evolve. Religion has been the most greatest tool used to control the people, so now that we are living in a time where we can question EVERYTHING without being put to death (in most countries) people can form their own opinion to chose what to believe in & why
He did not create Christianity. Christianity was alive way before his time. He did declared that all religions would be tolerated in the Roman Empire. Constantine ended the vicious persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire. Constantine was the first in human history to wage war using the name of Christ. He did not identify himself as “Christian” until he was 40 years old, and he was baptized only before his imminent death at 65. Constantine wisely perceived that the Catholic church would glue together his fragile Empire, and he fought heretical movements (Arianism) that can jeopardize the unity of the Church or the unity of the Empire. hence He was made a member of in The Council of Nicaea by the Catholic church. This council stood down the Arians and issued the Nicene Creed. A statement of faith for Christianity. He was emperor but he did not control the church, the bishops and the Pope were of church. Constantine did not even fully understood the heresy of Arianism and why the church had condemned it. He needed the church to glue together his fragile Empire..
@@jotunman627 I've heard a podcast that he had Arianism leanings, but preferred the idea of doctrinal unity which was what the main body of the church. Constantine's issue was that if the new religion he had legalized was subject to in-fighting it would subject his Empire to break apart at the seams.
@@emiliaramos5792 True, When Constantine endorsed Arius’s ideas, there was an uproar that led the emperor in 325 to call the Council of Nicaea to settle the issue. This council stood down the Arians and issued the Nicene Creed. A statement of faith for Christianity. He held off his baptism until the last moment of his life, in respect to his position (as Emperor) and the Roman Empire....This video is full of misconception and false narratives on Christianity. Christianity was alive and growing, even before Constantine, there were ten Popes in the lifetime of Constantine.
It would seem that the Roman Empire was struggling to survive as a viable state at the time Emperor Constantine decided to find a way to shore up a broken, decadent empire. After all, the Romans had spent a lot of time trying to wipe out Christianity, by means of: torture; imprisonment; mass murder; repression of communal worship, etc. At the end of this effort, the faith was actually growing, instead of being destroyed. Certainly, Constantine must have thought, 'if you can't beat them, join them.' Here was a community of people who had defied all the odds, while maintaining their morals, and other values, something lacking in Imperial Rome at this time. Simply incorporate this strong community into the weakening Roman culture by means of the law, and Rome would last forever. Or, at least, that was how the story should have gone.
It was rumoured, and it it is not mentioned in the video that Constantine's mother was a Christian, a Brit, and possibly an aristocrat. His father being a Roman and possibly a follower of Mithras?
@@gordonbryce Helena was a Christian is not a rumor but an historical fact. She had a big influence on Constantine. Things aren't as simple to one side or the other as people like them to be seem.
Christianity was totally and fervently at odds with Roman pagan culture. That is why it was persecuted. It was totally alien to Roman culture, including its passivity to violence and it harsh ridicule of the pagan gods. It was in no way politically expedient for Constatine to embrace it.
Excellent work!! . . . If only people would understand that 'compromise' is the biggest assault against the true Jesus & original Christian faith. *_2 Corinthians 11: 4_*
A lot of people don't realise that Jesus was speaking to.the People of his day and Nero is the only person that adds to 666 and the last part does not speak of the burning of the world it's talking about Rome itself.
@@djollyrodjeur the same reason you sin and go against Jehovah's commandments. Don't blame The Lord. Blame yourself and all the other wicked and evil human beings. That's why. We all have a choice. Free Will. Do good or do evil.
How can we trust Constantine when he claims that Jesus or an angel from God showed him a sign of the cross in the sky with the words in this sign you shall conquer. Would Jesus tell Constantine to kill people in Jesus name? In Revelation 21 and in revelation 22 Jesus says murderers will not make it into the kingdom
We know that Constantine's wife, and daughter were both fanatical Christians. Was it not these women who declared that they had found "Nazareth", and then created a pilgrimage site out of it?
First of all Constantine did not invent Christianity, as it had existed for over 3 Centuries Before he was born. He only legalized Christian worship and freedom for Christians to worship as they saw fit.
Halo of light around a deity's head can be seen literally in many religions. In Hinduism, we have so many Gods depicted with a halo of light around their heads representing that they are divine beings
I find this history lessen actually fascinating. I have to listen to this again to take it all in. I have visited most of these places when I was young. Today retired back in my own country I am previlaged to be a arm chair traveller revisiting these same places and makeing sence if what I once saw. Thankyou Mr.Simka for this memorable and very interesting History lesson I treasure and have something to ponder about my entire day today. Lastly I do follow your other programs as well and enjoy it!
I’ve been to some of these places and now I really want to revisit Constantine’s arch. Any true historian knows that like all Roman emperors he was pretty full of himself. I am surprised how there is no mention of how Constantine is influential for the organizing the early church and council of Nicaea
Hinduism,Buddhism or rather sanatan dharma is totally different from abrahamic religions. The former are like real, delicious mangoes . The latter, colored, flavored, preservative added, carbonated mango drink.
The Mithraic religion highlighted the movement of the Sun across the elliptical. The movement from the constellation of the Bull ( Taurus) to the constellation of the Ram ( Aries) took place at about 2,100 bc. Prior to that Spring commenced in the constellation of Taurus for about 4200 Bc to 2100 bc. The fact that Mithraism Was a secret and elitist religion is not because it was different from the Roman religion per se , but it added an esoteric spin to the Roman Greco religion, particularly from About 200BC , because the constellation of Aries matched the sign of Aries due to the precession of the equinox. In Persia, where the magi originated from .. the lamb was known as the Ram.. so the author gets it wrong here .. the symbolism of the cap was from the Zoroastrian faith, where it is mandatory for Zoroastrians to wear a cap. This practice Was adopted by the Jews and Muslims later. The Mitraic religion is influenced Mitra of the Indo - Zoroastrian faith. Going back to Astronomy , sign of Aries , which is symbolised by the Sun bcoz Sun reaches it zenith or exhalation point in Aries and that explains the reference to Mithras as the Sun God. No doubt, Constantine had motives in combining Christianity with the Mithraism and this can be seen by the church adopting Easter corresponding to Sun’s move into Spring Equinox which coincided with so called the rite of spring celebrations which later on became Easter. The’s sun movement into Capricorn or the winter solstice on 22nd December was adopted as the birthdate of Jesus to make it easier to combine the Greco Roman customs into Christianity.
Yes Mithra literally means Same in Hinduism too . Mithra is referred to Morning Sun or the one who provides path to travel to the sun in different signs
Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth knows His sheep and His sheep know Him 🌾🌿 May the Love of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus The Messiah) be with you that is reading this. Your brother Yacob
32:17 He named the city Nova Roma (New Rome). People after his death started to call the city Constantinople. 38:33 Jesus was never an anti-Roman rebel. He even said give to Ceasar what is to Ceasar. He didn't come to destroy the empire but to save the world and that includes the Roman Empire. Historical channel he?
Fascinating story; regardless of Constantine's alterations to early Christianity, it's hard to imagine Christianity becoming a widespread world religion without his support or without the embrace of the Roman Empire for that matter. Even though Constantine DID NOT make Christianity the official religion of Rome, he set the tone of tolerance to Christianity, which only later would become the official religion. Let us just imagine if Rome had embraced Judaism, Zoroastrism or any other Religion as their official credo. The world would certainly be very different. It was through Roman conquest that Christianity spread throughout Pagan Europe, and later it was through Christian European conquest that Christianity would spread throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and pretty much everywhere.
The truth of the Gospel will never be dispelled. It is the very foundation of Truth. The enemy tried to mix paganism in with it which in turn created the Roman Catholic church, and the Roman Catholic church was known for burning true Christians alive for even having a Bible written in their own spoken tongue. The truth always wins.
@@stephenagnewii3325The Bible was been rewritten over and over again to different languages. The so-called disciples never wrote the Bible the Bible came from later scrolls so the Bible is just a lie. God is real the Bible just a way to control people.
********PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !!******** All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice! God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !! JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
Because God is holy, he cannot be GRACEFUL in the JUDGMENT !! So God always has to judge righteously in order to be holy !!! Does he not judge righteously! he would judge injustice and he would be UNHOLY !! Grace is not fair because it is a GIFT that you do not deserve! If you had earned it, it would not be GRACE but JUSTICE !! So a HOLY GOD cannot be MERCYFUL when he is JUDGING !! So FACT is without JESUS HIS SACRIFICE, it doesn't work !!
never..my ancestors have heavy ties to the Holy Empire, around 800 AD and I'm a devote Catholic, but I don't include the Vatican in my worship. and I'm also Slav, which is the word Slave comes from, so when I hear people in the US talking about slavery, I'm in awe
@@V.F._Kritikos NO, the letters go to the household of ceaser, the truth was that Chrstianity was growing so much that there was no way to 'stamp it out' but raher it was better to accept it and such.
Not true. Christianity didn't exist before the Council of N 325 AD. Gnostic tribes/churches like the Essenes, Gentiles etc. Study Eusebius and Josephus
The Council of Nicaea, which OFFICIALLY established Jesus as God for the first time in Christianity, was organized by a Roman emperor named Constantine, who was a pagan and not a Christian, and was only baptized shortly before his death. 1. He chose which priests and churches would be invited, thereby arranging the "majority" and "minority" positions at the Council of Nicaea. 2. Nicaea, Anatolia, was an area where the majority of the population opposed Arianism, the doctrine that believed Jesus was not God. Thus, it is clear that Constantine did not need to be actively involved in the council, as the participants had already been "selected," the environment was "arranged," and therefore the outcome of the voting decisions was likely predictable by Constantine.
First of All, any argumentation against Christian Doctrine isn’t exclusively “Western”. Constantine had just as much influence of the Eastern side of Christendom as well.
Imagine all records/data of human have vanished today and the only remarkable evidence is Mt Rushmore. 1000 yrs from now , people in the future will think they were Gods of the people today
That would apply for every Muslim community who used to be Zoroastrianism and Hinduism and the people of Latin and south America who are now Catholics 😁
There is so much information not mentioned here. Like how Constantine’s Mother was a full blow Christian and traveled to the Holy land relic hunting and establishing churches along the way. The vision Constantine saw wasn’t the cross at all but rather Chi-Rho. “In this sign, conquer.” It is quite common for Roman Emperors to build giant statues of themselves or more accurately steal them from old emperors and have the faces changed. It’s also common practice to have yourself deified as an emperor. What these “historians” should be looking at is the written trail that was left by the man to see what faith he held. In that you read of a man that was trying to unify the church and stop in fighting. He called the first Council of Nicaea to help deliberate with the bishops of the day and help mend rifts that came about due to differences in teachings. A megalomaniac wouldn’t concern himself with such things. He himself had the word “consubstantial” added to the Creed that settled the matter of Jesus and God being of the same material. Let us not forget that he wrote several laws that gave Christians freedom to worship openly and returned lands and buildings that were taken from Christian churches and citizens. This program is pure garbage with as much historical bases as an Inquirer periodical has in facts. It does not site historical documents and cherry picks information to represent its own views and lead the ignorant astray. Do some reading in actual books. You’ll see that Constantine did a lot of work for the good of the church and that he was a Christian.
They did tried to substantiate the mystery but it is not enough. Another person could have done or researched it differently or paint it the whole picture differently. There are still many questions to be answered. A single documentary can't explain it all. All the same , good job.
@@tantrum17 There's was no Aryan invasion. It was just a colonial conspiracy theory to make Hindus feel that what they value the most is also not their own. That would make Hindus have a defeatist mentality and such people are easy to rule over.
@@himanshukhichar4185 Man oh man! You are still on peoples talks? Dna pattern of most brahmins in your country proves that their ancestors were from European. Not only that even factual proof. Check "The Hindu" article about this. If you think Ramayana and Mahabharata are history then Ima ask forgiveness from you because believing in things that are mentioned in that book is absurd. Iron is used in this stories whereas iron was discovered 3500 years ago. Hanuman settings a gold city on fire(like seriously?) As Ik if you set fire on a gold object it shines not burns. With the sperms of the Rishis animals gets pregnant, sun being the hottest object in the solar system comes and have sex with a women and gives birth to karana. If you go with facts and proof, this only implies that most of this stories are made up in recent years.
@@tantrum17 Bible stories are much worse and superstitious and boring too. Other cultures have much more interesting mythologies. But the funny thing is that people believed them to be literally true for thousands of years and some even do now. 😂😂
The first edict of recognition and tolerance of the Christian religion was issued by Emperor Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus on April 30, 311. Emperor Galerius was of Dacian origin. On the Arc de Triomphe of Constantine there are 8 statues representing Dacian nobles as well as the bas-relief with the emperor Constantine and his pretorian guard formed by the Dacians. Start the documentary from these historical realities.
@@kevwhufc8640 He changed the world by polluting who Jesus was and Christianity. All his people were Pagans and when he said that they were to become Christians, the simply changed clothes and said "Were Christians now," but they still practiced their Pagan ways. They didn't give a Damn about Jesus or Christianity they only did what Constantine said to be. That's not Christianity at all. And they never went by Jesus's teachings either. The Catholic churches are just a left over remnant of the Holy Roman empire and all religions today follow the Catholic churches. The Baptist say yeah we believe in the trinity too but we don't pray or worship saints so we're gonna do things our way. And the Methodist follow close behind the Baptist and Protestants and Lutherans and Evangelist all of them are followers of the Catholic churches. They're just different variations of the Catholic churches.
@@ScottRock-mr6qk Constantine never claimed to be a Christian, if you look at his images, statues, mosaics and especially his coins, he continues to worship pagan gods, Mars Jupiter, Concorde, victory, and especially sol, the legend around his coins he refers to himself as Divus ,or PN a God of God's, there was no single Christian church in his time where they all believed the same thing, even almost a century after his death when Theodosius became emperor he chooses to outlaw paganism and made christianity the official state religion, but he writes about the many Christian sects who all disagreed with the others about one thing or another, he sent his men to wipe them all out unless they accepted his version. But even Theodosius continued using some pagan traditions, the legend around his coins claim him to be a God, the reverse depicts some pagan gods, after his wife died he minted coins with her image on the obverse claiming her as a goddess. The Christian church was still divided over many things The east and western churches didn't agree about when Easter should be celebrated, that didn't happen until the 7th century.
@@verycaring2387 I always thought the doctrine of the immortal soul came from the Greeks. "The early Christian Philosophers adopted the Greek concept of the soul's immortality and thought of the soul as being created by God and infused into the body at conception." (Encyclopedia Britannica (1988), volume 11, p. 25) They came up with Hell too.
PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !! All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice! God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !! JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
In a diferent age, a long time ago that mankind forgotten we hade knowlege of things that came directly from the celestial kingdom. Try to investigate and you will see a lot of things that were taken from the scriptures because we man think they were dangerous. The only danger was that they will not control us anymore to do their wicked work using the words of God and profets. One example, the book of Enoch it's one.
@@aaronspo1 They worship on Saturn's Day "Cain," in Hebrew in pronounced "Khan" with closest English spelling as "Chan " "Cain/Khan/Chan" had a son "Khanoke" or "Chanukah."
Mixing religions together is as old as it could be. Introducing paganism into christianity which was a mix with judaism and a few new ideas. Sounds not to farfetched.
Constantine did not found the Christian Church. Jesus Christ did and left his teachings to the 12 Apostles, not the Bible yet. The Bible was written a little more than 3 centuries after Christ’s death.
The statues on Constantine's arch are not so mysterious. They are dacians, noblemen, called "pileati" from the latin "pileus" which means "hat". They are not frygian and were not worshipers of Mythra.
Christians weren't persecuted continuously between the 1st century and the 4th century (when Constantine ruled). The were long periods when Christians lived in peace, so it makes sense that there were Christian soldiers in the Roman army. Also, Constantine didn't convert the Roman Empire, he issued an order that Christians not be persecuted (Edict of Milan in 313). He himself didn't convert until 337 when he knew he was dying. Also, there's no evidence that Mithras worshippers believed that Mithras died and was resurrected. It's disputed that they considered December 25 to be Mithras' birthday. It's possible that Constantine believed in both Christianity and Mithraism, because many Romans didn't consider religions to be mutually exclusive and he probably wasn't interested in the fine points of Christian theology. Syncretism (combining and assimilating different beliefs and gods) was widespread in the Roman Empire.
Also at the time of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge the German's in Constantine's Army, both Foederati and Roman Citizens, were predominately Arian Christians, not Orthodox, Latin, or Gnostic Christians. How much of a dream, a sign, and a miraculous victory for Constantine the Great for the back-bone of his power in the eyes of Germanic Romans from Upper and Lower Germania in the empire and the Foederati in Germania Magna and also the Upper and Lower Danube and the steppe? The Germans stretched from eastern Gaul to the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and the majority of tribes next to the Empire were Arian Christians. Not the majority of Germanic tribes, they were still pagan, but the ones right next to the Empire (which comprised the majority of the Foederati) were Arian Christians.
Yes, and the Arians suffered for their beliefs in a sense that they were sidelined by the Catholic church and the Orthodox. Constantine must have been aware of the early schism in calling for the Council of Nicea in order to patch things up between the competing "schools" of the Christians?
@@gordonbryce My whole point was that the Orthodox Christians were the vast majority of Christians in the Roman Empire in the 4th Century A.D. The most politically sensitive group were the Arian Christians in Alexandria and in the Germanic parts of the Roman Empire and of the Foederati. Latin Christendom was almost non-existent in the time of Constantine by comparison because the majority of Christians in the Western Empire were Arians.
@@morganhale3434 It may be the case Morgan that elements of knoghthood and chivalry had their roots among the Arian Goths and Vandals. The Franks were Catholic but I believe had a reasonable relationship with both the visi and ostrogoths. They all had a common Hunnic enemy.However, with the church scribes writing up Catholic belief and downgrading the Arian"heresey" we can't get to the truth of Arian influence on chivalrous values but I have a intuition it was high. Any references or leads?
@@morganhale3434 The spread of Arian Christianity among the Goths, Vandals, etc took place after the death of Constantine, and thus the rest is irrelevant. We don't know the religious makeup of Constantine's armies, let alone that of foreign allies that fought for him
@@histguy101 You commented on my second post, not the first one which was the main point after all. I don't need your mere sniping at a secondary point since what Constantine was after was the support of Christians in the Eastern Empire not amongst the Foederati since the Germans of the Empire who were Christian were very few in number. Your cognitive reading skills suck.
Yes, there were Christians in the Roman Army. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches name some of them as military saints and matyrs. One of Constantine's closet advisor and biographer, Lactantius, was a Christian early on. Constantine's mother, St. Helena, is also famous for finding the "true cross" and major shrine churches in Jerusalem
*Constantine* Created Christianity in Year 325 He Never *Converted* To Christianity Because He Knew That It's Fraud And Was Created By Himself at *Council Of Nicae*
@@heavymeddle28 well I guess in a way. Love for power sometimes can entail constructing a personality cult just like the communist leaders used to do. They weren't necessarily narcissists. They just liked power.
@@heavymeddle28 it’s a common thread, or the common denominator. Narcissistic behavior always has some element of power and manipulation involved. The narcissist may not exhibit a hunger and thirst outwardly, but the point behind who they are is to have control and they suffer a narcissistic injury when someone stands up to them. Control is power, manipulation is something all narcissists covet.
The more of this I watch, the more I see this isn't the only time this has happened Akhenaten, Constantine and Louis XIV all worshipped suns, all immediately made themselves heads of a new religion, and all moved the capitals of their kingdoms into new cities. Is there something all these guys seemed to know about that we dont?
Why americans can't just make a documentary without constant epic hells kitchen war-like music and sound effects playing in the background i will never understand.
Daniel 7:9 “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the HAIR of his HEAD like the PURE WOOL: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
Well, they looking for crosses in the arch, but Constantine didn’t used crosses; in his vision, he was ordered to paint XP in his army’s shield as a symbol of victory, XP , XP which is a Christian monogram made up of the Greek letters khi and rho, the first two letters of Khristos, the Greek form of Christ's name.
The arch is irrelevant anyway. It was commissioned by the Senate as a gift for Constantine, to be built by his 10 year anniversary for him to visit Rome. Constantine didn't rule from Rome ever, and only visited twice as emperor. He ruled from Mediolanum(Milan) and Augusta Treverorum(Trier), and several cities in Illyricum and elsewhere. We don't know if Constantine had any thing to do with the arch's design. It's entirely made of spolia. Even the sculptural relief band going around the monument commonly attributed to Constantine's time may be spolia from a monument begun by Probus or Carus. All the Tetrarchs did this. The only story being told on Constantine's arch... Is being told through the use of older sculptures from previous emperors' monuments. I can't believe the doc doesn't even mention this. It must be the only look into the arch that doesn't immediately go into the history of the sculptures and which emperors commissioned them(Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, etc). Other than that, it's a very impressive arch, and the inscription is obviously from Constantine's day, but written by the Senate. If people want some evidence of Constantine's conversion, the fact that he spurned Jupiter Capitolinus in his triumph, a totally unprecedented and bizarre move, and the fact that he began giving his children a Christian education at this time, and began closing certain pagan temples, etc.
Everyone of us can be a Christian, As long as we have responsibility. And that is the message of Cross. It's war, suffering, sharing Or burden. There are many names of it but the same meaning-cross, love is God. In the name of Father, Son And Holly Spirit. Thank you for the video.
It is said that Constantine didn't like having to visit all the most popular gods at their shrines to make offerings. It was easier for him to have just one inclusive god that he had to appease. He still made offerings to the Roman and Greek god Apollo, who was connected with many things, including the sun, and was one of the most popular pagan gods among the elite and educated in the Roman Empire. Remember that most of the Bible is written or translated in Greek. Besides, many of his soldiers already believed in the god Mithras, and Zoroastrian mysteries from Persia are based on Mithraism. Mithraism was a rival to early Christianity. Mithraists were subject to persecution by the Christians, and soon died out. I wonder how many Mithra saints and martyrs there would be today if it had survived?
Who said the Mithraism or its follower's died out, there are always people serving old gods in public and in hiding. There are plenty of people today that still knowingly and some foolishly use pagan gods\idols during Christian days of worship. Current media, must are teaching everyone who wants to listen to "do as they wilt".
Constantine changed the name of the true hebrew Israelite messiah (Yahawashi) to the Roman-Greco false messiah who came in his own name jesus.Truth is truth,)They were never called Christians then,.only beleivers.He wasn't called jesus then either. ONLY Yahawashi.Constantine created the name jesus.Nobody called a name that wasn't invented.Come on man!The Roman religion of constantine is a false one.All Israelites MUST come out of this false religion.The wrath of Yah will be poured out on this false religion without mixture. Now, ask yourself is that what you want?
hebrew Yeshua translated to the greek according to the greek language rules: "Iesus". The letter "J" appeared around the 17 century... "I"/Jesus. In their translation of the Bible when you read the Gospels, they wrote about Yeshua going to Yerushalaim: "for the feast of the jews". Yeshua was a jew, and his followers were jews. When they wrote about it, they must have written the name of the Feast of Yehovah they were to celebrate (They had several). They would not refer to themselves as "the jews". Also when they mention the pharisees, they say "the jews". True Christianity started with jewish believers of Yeshua ha Masiach, then God manifested to the gentiles as well and of both He made one group. It is clear that people who were NOT jews nor christians altered the Scriptures, to portray the "jews" as evil, and many jew believers were still jews! Believing in their Mesiah did non strip them of their jewishness.
PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !! All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice! God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !! JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
let's take Islam as an example!: Islam presented itself as a LIE and FRAUD when it denied Jesus its sacrifice !! Because God is holy, he cannot be GRACEFUL in the JUDGMENT !! So God always has to judge righteously in order to be holy !!! Does he not judge righteously! he would judge injustice and he would be UNHOLY !! Grace is not fair because it is a GIFT that you do not deserve! If you had earned it, it would not be GRACE but JUSTICE !! So a HOLY GOD cannot be MERCYFUL when he is JUDGING !! So FACT is without JESUS HIS SACRIFICE, it doesn't work !! So logically and rationally seen is a fact if Jesus did not die for the sins of the world and is not God then it does not work! !! Just like in Islam !! IS ALLAH a LIAR when he says he is the RIGHT JUDGE (which he must be if he is HOLY) ??? Or is ALLAH a LIAR when he says he's MERCIFUL !!!!
14:00 what does the cross have to do with christianity? it was the way jesus was crucified by romans, a roman symbol of killing, not something christians held before that.
1rst and second century writings confirm the nature of Christianity. No matter what the structure of the Romanized church the words of Jesus have not changed only people's interpretation has.
@Ggh Bhg If you read Albert Pike, he wrote the blueprint for 3 World Wars. He said the final war is Islam vs Zionism so the Christians can be introduced to the light of Lucifer. I know you have a emotional belief, believing something you told is true. The truth it is a false idea a warning from God is Ferro in Egypt museum to humanity, when a man said he was God his body was found at the start of Zionism. You can never associate a man with God.
@@icrushchildrensdreams4556 Yes he was a freemason and what do freemason do? They are builders, masons. They are building the world for the Antichrist. It is all hypothetical all the satanic symbols everywhere. Satanist control the world. We are living in it. This is the Antichrist Israel rules the world its capital is Jerusalem they are the most powerful country in the world. No one can touch Israel.
Smh to unbelievers of Yashua. He was real and mankind exploited the belief in God for power for themselves. This is no surprise. People have proven selfish and full of secrets for thousands of years. Pagan Gods have been fighting with Elohim since the garden of eden. Pagans have been.mimicking the bible. Since creation the Bible promised He would bruise the heal of the serpent with a seed. Pagan believers took those words and made a mother as a god and her son as a god. This has been repeated ling before you were thought of and is still happening. The halo looks similar to the statue of liberty. More pagans. Yashua and the Bible is the only true facts
Rocky balboa fought Apollo Creed. Rocky balboa is rocky Ba'al boa, the sun serpent or serpent sun. Apollo creed had a son named Adonis creed. Adonis is another representation of the sun. The creed of the sun. Adonis is Adoni, the singular version of Adonai. Apollo is apollyon. Jesus, the great Amen, pronounced in the middle east as "Amun" is Amon Ra, Jupiter Ammon, zeus ammon, ba'al hammon. The most high, the sun, the Rama, the Ram, the son of God. Jupiter ammon, zeus ammon, ba'al hammon all have ram horns. Jesus is the lamb
@@joshuacromley7439 Mitrá is one of Sanskrit name for Sun/Surya is from Vedic origin. similarly the Hindu God Shiva has many names, people in Southern part of India also call him Baal, Kabali, which means one with long hairs. Kaaba in Mecca was earlier a pagan temple of Kabali hence it is called Kaaba, the black stone in Kaaba is Shiva(Lingam/Symbol). Ptah is the creator deity of ancient Egypt, in Sanskrit we call the Almighty Father as Pitah or Pitah Parameshwar. Mittani Gods are Hindu Vedic Gods. all pagan gods including greek and roman originated from The Hindu Vedic pagan gods. They were spread to these places by colonies of Ancient India, particulary by the Thirrayar clan of Kerala, these people were called Etruscan by romans and greeks called them Tyrrhenian, the Tyrrhenian Sea is named after them. Rome was established and civilized by ancient Indian people. All Greek knowledge is Vedic Hindu knowledge.
@@rishitsrivastava7428 technically yes and no. The Phoenicians are the venetians/romans, but yeah hinduism is where it all originates. The story of shiva is the story of Odin. Hinduism actually helped bring this all full circle for me years ago, more specifically chapter four of the bhagavad gita. But the exoteric version of all these stories has multiple meanings, based in astronomy, one of the four sciences on modern mathematics, and alchemy
@@dimitri1798 It can be proven by the New Testament and using the Hebrew Calendar that he didn't Ressurect on a Sunday. That is an age old lie told by Christians to celebrate Pagan Easter and they use Easter Sunday then as an excuse to keep a false Sabbath. If you want me to explain it all let me know it isn't a baseless claim. Btw I'm actually not Christian at all I used to be but I left it for Judaism after doing alot of research
Constantine was so powerful and influential that he tried to change God's Sabbath to his Sun worship day (Sunday) that is adopted by most Christians today.....let's wake up! there remains a Sabbath for the people of God today (Hebrews 4:9-11)
How do they know that those cross symbols on those rocks had religious connotations? It’s very easy to make lines crossing one another. Maybe made by a bored soldier? Maybe it was an ancient game? It’s quite a stretch to see “cross or x symbols” on rocks and then proclaim that there were Christians in Constantine’s army.
This question I was left with ... why was American Christianity so vehemently against it's members have knowledge of & being apart of Greek organizations (Fraternity & Sorority) or Fraternal Orders? It appears that Greek history could explain so much about Christianity and other institutions & systems. Just my thoughts ... but this was my first video from this channel & now I want to see EVERYTHING 👀
Fraternal orders are satanic cults. Just like freemansonry. Meaning you don’t know you’re worshipping satan until you climb the ranks and then they reveal it to you. Ofc at the basic level you won’t be “worshipping satan” but these orders are cults are were organized and structured to worship Satan. Keep researching for you know I could be saying rubbish, I would prefer that you do your study and come to knowledge of the truth instead of reading a random comment on RU-vid.
THEREfore understandably Christianity is a mix teaching from paganism to Christianity. In short Christianity's teaching is impure because it mixed with Paganism.
@@justinamusyoka4986 there should be no Christianity cause it's evil nothing good about it, a cult religion made to destroy the world and y'all say paganism is demonic wake up lady! Christianity should simply be erased.
Upon his death, his tomb has his body placed in the middle of twelve pillars as he believed himself to be a thirteenth apostle because he had converted more “Christians” than they had. It’s very interesting to learn about the cult of Mithras.
I'm not a papist myself, but don't start your shit. We Christians should be uniting not fighting each other. Don't you see we're under siege by all sides? Revelation is coming to fruition
None of this stuff matters. And there's nothing particularly revelatory about this reflection of Constantine. He was obviously a "political" general and emperor. The real issue is, did he use the Christians or did the Christian Bishops use him? Remember, the Christians were persecuted before Constantine. Yet, they had become so numerous by the time of Constantine, that two empire wide persecutions failed to purge the Christians (Decius and Diocletian). So, obviously, Constantine understood this background. It would be in his pragmatic interest (even if he disguised his Sun God beliefs -- which he would have had to do to get the Christians on his side) and the Bishops to reach a peace. So, in the end, it is irrelevant, whether whether Constantine truly adopted the Christian faith or not, the practical, historical result, is that Christianity was finally accepted to strengthen the Empire. Not by forcing them to Worship Constantine as a God -- as a Bishop, I wouldn't care two cents what Constantine thought of himself, as longs as he left the Faithful Christians alone. No Christian would worship him as a God. But bishops would be all for making the Faith that had outlasted all its emperors, legal. That's Constantine's claim to fame, and he didn't accept Christianity in a stingy fashion! He built big! Gave them (and himself) a new city -- which to a Christians represented a purging of Paganism.
The "crimson cross" Constantine saw in the sky was a Nova from one of the Crux Constellations. There is a recurring cataclysm event which happens roughly every 12,000 years and all Scripture mentions it. We are in the Holocene Epoch which began at the end of the last ice age, and on the Holocene calendar it is currently the year 12,021.
So Constantine wasn't a Christian until he was about to die. He combined Christianity with Mithraism .I suggest u have to listen to surah Al maidah (the table spread). Here u can read the conversation of Jesus with Allah (God).
wetware, grateful to have the opportunity brought by all who makes it possible to evolve in learning, and in such a great way things i may have never had given myself the desire to learn or know. Perhaps,not known at all if it werent for the journey of all others. Thank you so much
Nobody cares anymore if there was a stupid Mithra temple or not. The important thing is that the fullness of the Church of Jesus Christ was imposed. It is what counts and to this day everything else prevails will not go beyond being pure stories, mythologies, legends, etc ... Nobody thinks or gives full importance to speculations in fact.
Constantine was a political and legal genius. He managed to get baptized by an Arian on his deathbed and still convince main stream Western Christianity to except him. The master theologian Athanasius might have some words.
By an Arian? Prove it. where is any of ur proof? He funded and made Christianity the main religion even atheist scholars agree on this long before his dead. it’s only now that satan is getting so desperate that all u and him can come up with us lame debunked Conspiracy theories.
@@supppppz8823 oh knock off the 19th century baloney. How about read your primary sources instead of parroting 19th century nationalists regarding Constantine the first. The guy backed areas at the council of Nicaea and helped put the Arians in power even though they were condemned and excommunicated.
@@longforgotten4823 the priest who baptized Constantine, become arian after the baptism of Constantine, no before. By the moment of the baptism of Constantine, this priest (Eusebius of Nicomidia) was orthodox christian, not arian
Your right and the Jesus and Christianity today. The true name is yahshua and Yahweh is the name of the father Catholics and Christian churches are the same and been built on liea
Thanks so much for your documentary! It's no wonder that Constantine was only baptized a Christian, on his 'death bed'! He certainly used Christianity to expand his empire!!! The Arch of Constantine is a stark apocalypse of the emperor's true stance... I've actually read of this theory before, and it makes perfect sense. It was his mother Helena, that went to the Holy Land looking for the Cross of Jesus, and built the Church of The Holy Sepulchre, where she believed she had found the actual cross. What a disgrace to think that Helena and Constantine are venerated as saints in the Greek Orthodox Church...
Helena was a big Christian that had a lot of troubles with his husband because of her faith but she remained strong on it and had a lot influence over her son Constantine. Nothing is that simple.
@@histguy101the Roman Catholic churches in apostasy evident by the doctrine they teach and the fact that they violate the ten commandments. "You shall not create for yourself any graven image of anything in heaven in the Earth or in the sea, neither shall you bow down to them" There's no such thing as a pope in the Bible and the Bible distinctly tells you how to pray and in Jesus's name yet they pray to Mary. Calling Mary the Queen of heaven and this is nowhere in the Bible to be found. They assumed to understand the scriptures when they totally do not understand the scriptures and mislead many. And then there's the fact that they cannot stay out of the media because they are constantly molesting children and raping their own nuns. They are turning people into atheists. "By their fruits you shall know them"
Built just after the battle and 10 years before Constantine presided over the council of Nicea. Not nearly enough time had passed between his conversion and the construction of the Arch for Christianity to take hold of Constantine and the Roman culture as a whole.
Ezekiel 13:6-9 They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?” Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God. My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.
When the Spanish Conquerers landed in Mexico the saw many Crosses erected ! That didn't mean they were Christians ! Just as finding Crosses in old Roman Army areas!
All v. well-known facts. But 1 was missed: that Constantine's mother (St.) Helena was Christian. Upon her son's gaining the imperial purple she also became the most successful archaeologist ever: discovering the True Cross, the site of Christ's Crucifixion and Sepulcher etc. all during a brief stay in Jerusalem. It might've been due to her influence that, despite being a megalomaniacal pagan at heart, he built gigantic basilicas for the Christian faith, called ecumenical councils to find an accord between the various churches, to codify the scriptures, but did nothing to perpetuate Mithraism or the cult of Apollo. The one interesting revelation in this documentary was the relation of the Arch vis-a-vis the colossal statue of the sun god. Simcha would be so much more convincing if he were either really clean-shaven or sported a thick well-kempt beard, but somehow he seems to think that going around with a 5 o'clock shadow -- not exactly a "philosopher's beard" -- is, like, cool and chic.
Very interesting but I'm sure you know that while Mithras' birth was celebrated on December 25th. Saturnalia was not. It was celebrated on December 17 and lasted 3 days and was later extended to 7 days. Why didn't you correct that other historian? If that simple, verifiable information is miss represented in your special, what else is in error? Here's another. Constantine never called Istanbul Constantinople. He called it New Rome. The Ottoman called it Constantinople I believe.
Constantine blended much of the existing Paganism with different versions of Christianity to placate the masses. This eventually became the western or gentile version of Christianity, with a mere inkling of the knowledge on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth(sp?) .
Nope, wrong, The church baptizes all nations and their traditions to the Trinity. Christianity cannot be compatible with other religions. Your argument falls flat.
