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The Council of Nicaea. In 325 AD Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea, the first empire-wide meeting of church leaders to discuss various doctrinal controversies. Today some ask if the books of the Bible were changed or corrupted, or even selected (in some back-room conspiracy) for inclusion in the Bible at this Council.
Emperor Constantine. Finally, several decades following the Great Persecution, when Christians were free to worship relatively unmolested in the Roman Empire, the emperor Constantine (AD 306–337) ordered fifty deluxe copies of the scriptures to be made in an effort to organize and promote Christian worship in his new capital, Constantinople.
Apr 28, 2010 · One of the scramblers was a general named Constantine, the son of one of Diocletian's co-rulers. It was October, 312 AD Constantine and his troops marched toward Rome to do battle with his opponent, another would-be emperor, the tyrannical Maxentius. It was the greatest challenge the gifted young general had ever faced.
May 19, 2016 · With Constantine’s conversion, the church found itself in a new position: the emperor became the most powerful proponent of Christianity. This caused three major problems: 1. The competence of the state in church affairs. Church-state relations changed radically in the years after Constantine’s conversion. The church was simply not prepared ...
Constantine became emperor of Rome in 312 A.D. A little later he supposedly embraced the Christian faith for himself and for his empire, in an attempt to bring about the amalgamation of PAGANISM and CHRISTIANITY. In 331 AD, Emperor Contantine ordered that an "ecumenical Bible" be written. Constantine wanted a Bible which would be acceptable to ...
Nov 11, 2021 · No. This falsehood has been used to cast suspicion on the origins of the canon, which undermines the Bible’s authority. Dan Brown’s 2003 bestseller, TheDa Vinci Code, planted this idea in our culture, and many now think Constantine or Nicaea established the Bible. But Brown didn’t invent this story. He only perpetuated it through his fiction.
Constantine's Anti-Pagan stance as good as any "good" Old Testament King of Judah: It is significant, for instance, not that the pagan gods and their legends survived for a few years on Constantine's coinage but that they disappeared so quickly: the last of them, the relatively inoffensive "Unconquered Sun" had been eliminated within little over a decade after the defeat of Maxentius ...
