2006-10-09 13:31:50 · 6 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Nicene Creed of Christianity, which is still practised today, is the direct result of a decision by the Roman Emperor Constantine to form a State religion to satisfy secular political imperatives of his time.
There is little doubt that in the course of such a process many of the deeper spiritual beliefs and insights espoused by Jesus were dispensed with as they were either misunderstood, or presented a real threat to the power and authority of the Roman Emperor.
Perennial esoteric spiritual concepts such as the essential unity or "oneness" of the Universe and the immortality of the Soul associated with reincarnation, the references to which where completely removed by Justinian in 553, to gain more social control, by the promotion of a "one chance to get it right or face eternal damnation" view that proved effective in maintaining social control, whilst the Roman empire began to dissolve.
Constantine's influence was significant and politically motivated in altering the original teachings of Jesus and has further developed through the centuries, by modern reformers into a simplistic faith system, that is clearly incompatible with Jesus's original message.
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2006-10-09 13:51:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly he was instrumental in having the bible canonized. As I understand it he would not give Christians the empires support unless the got together and decided which books were offical in and which were out. I'd say this is a very heavy influence indeed.
2006-10-09 20:36:52 · answer #2 · answered by Love of Truth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't. You'll see lots of lies, but his influence was primarily on what was emerging as catholicism. He helped shape that PERVERSION of New Testament Christianity, but did not seriously affect much else. The SDA's FALSELY claim that he was instrumental in their CLAIMED change from meeting on Saturday to Sunday, but Christian writers 100 to 150 years earlier had already conclusively established that the first century church assembled on Sunday. - See Justin Martyr (156 A.D.) and Tertullian (c. 200A.D.), both discuss meeting on Sunday, impossible if the SDA claim were true.
2006-10-09 20:33:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
he adopted the trinity as official belief and helped to crush the unitarian church that correctly believed that Jesus was a Prophet
2006-10-09 20:33:20 · answer #4 · answered by abdulaziiz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
brute force
2006-10-09 20:45:17 · answer #5 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Mugen he didn't.
2006-10-09 20:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋