Can someone tell me about King Constantine changing the Bible...?

Question

I heard someone say that King Constantine changed/rewrote the Bible...? What time period was this? Why did he change it?

Also, did King Constantine have any major enemies?

Answer 1

Constantine is perhaps best known for being the first Christian Roman Emperor. His emperorship was a turning point for the Christian Church. In 313 Constantine announced toleration of Christianity in the Edict of Milan, which removed penalties for professing Christianity (under which many had been martyred in previous persecutions of Christians) and returned confiscated Church property. Though a similar edict had been issued in 311 by Galerius, then senior emperor of the Tetrarchy,[8] Constantine's lengthy rule, conversion, and patronage of the Church redefined the status of Christianity in the empire.

Scholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother Helena's humble Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the course of his life.[9] Constantine was over 40 when he finally declared himself a Christian.[10] Writing to Christians, Constantine made clear that he owed his successes to the protection of the Christian High God alone.[11] Throughout his rule, Constantine supported the Church financially, built various basilicas, granted privileges (e.g. exemption from certain taxes) to clergy, promoted Christians to high ranking offices, and returned property confiscated during the Great Persecution of Diocletian.[12] His most famous building projects include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Old Saint Peter's Basilica.

The reign of Constantine established a precedent for the position of the Christian Emperor in the Church; Constantine considered himself responsible to God for the spiritual health of his subjects, and thus he had a duty to maintain orthodoxy.[13] For Constantine, the emperor did not decide doctrine - that was the responsibility of the bishops - rather his role was to enforce doctrine, root out heresy, and uphold ecclesiastical unity.[14] The emperor ensured that God was properly worshipped in his empire; what proper worship consisted of was for the Church to determine.[15]

Answer 2

I'm not sure that all of the previous posters are correct. Research the 1st Council of Nicea. this was in 325 and it was where much of the bible was codified (i.e. declared the word of god). It's also where some editing took place and many decisions about the nature of Christianity were decided upon.

Emperor Constantine was a fascinating man. He was the Nephew of the emperor who was a scholar and sent off to lead an army with the intent that he was to be killed. But- he was a pretty bright guy and ended up winning battles, engorging his army and coming back to challenge his uncle. Before the major war happened, however, his Uncle died and he became the defacto emperor as he lead the largest military force. So- he didn't have any serious enemies. But - that's a real nutshell of his life.

Answer 3

It was changed by Constantine when, in A.D. 321, he enacted the first Sunday law." In answer to this will come a chorus of disagreement from others. "No, no! The Sabbath was changed by the apostate church, which admits and even boasts of the power to make the change."
There is little or no disagreement that the original Sabbath day, commanded at Mount Sinai on a table of stone inscribed by the very handwriting of the Creator who had instituted it in Eden, is what we now know as Saturday. Proof — if it is even needed — is found by examining other languages, many of which still call the seventh day the Sabbath, or by asking an Orthodox Jew, whose ancestors, in an unbroken line, have kept track of, if they have not kept, the seventh-day Sabbath since Sinai.
majority of the church members made the change from Sabbath to Sunday over a period of years. When, in A.D. 321, the Emperor Constantine (who, according to the historian Gibbon liked to be associated with the symbol of the sun), made his famous edict making cessation from normal labors obligatory on "the day of the sun," he was simply recognizing a de facto situation; by that time there were few who still observed the Sabbath. In this point, as well as in many others, the religion of the majority was a strange mixture of the pagan beliefs of the Romans and a diluted and perverted form of Christianity.

Answer 4

Emperor Constantine did have some influence as it was he who called (and some say influenced) the Council of Nicea. It was a council of churchmen called for the purpose of solving some of the oustanding questions of the day on Christian orthodoxy.
By influencing some of the debate, Constantine did have some influence on which holy books would be considered cannon.

Answer 5

Constantine "the Great" was the title given to him by his people for many years before his rule the christian people were tortured and killed openly and all portions of the Holy Bible were burned when/where ever they were found. One of his first decrees was the reinstatement of the christian beliefs and putting these beliefs as the main religion of his lands he than began to establish the churches and rights of these people.

Answer 6

The Roman emporer Constantine was baptized on his death bed. He never changed the Bible. His successors backed the Roman Bishop in becoming gradually more and more powerful in the church. The Bible you and I have is the same one that early Christians had.

Answer 7

He did not change it, he compiled the bible. If not for King Constantine we would not have the New Testament

Answer 8

Constanine convened the first Council of Nicaea, in which they resolved the Arian controversy (Arianism held unusual beliefs that weren't supported by the Bible).

Answer 9

That was in the DiVinci Code, by Dan Brown. Though it makes perfect sense to me, I would cross check that info. I am positive there are edits and additions up the ying yang.

Answer 10

He didn't. The only changes were made in the latin vulgate and in poor translations. The original Greek and Hebrew are in great shape.