so constantine saved christianity from almost a certain death?

Answer 1

He saved Christians from an almost certain death by legalizing and recognizing Christianity as a formal religion. Then, they began to incorporate all of the various pagan religions into Christianity, to make it acceptable for all. This is how Christianity became warped with untruths.

Answer 2

Not really. Christianity had already grown and prospered for a couple of centuries under constant persecution, and undoubtedly would have continued to do so, with or without Constantine. But the legalization of Christianity certainly contributed to its accelerated rate of growth.

Answer 3

no...

there were many christians in egypt (the coptics), greece (the orthodox), and many other areas before constantine was around. constantine eliminated the roman persecution of christians because christianity was gaining momentum, and fast. he knew he would have an uprising if he continued to execute christians, so he made the religion legal, and later fashioned it to suit his government. constantine then made his brand of christianity the official roman religion. he did not convert, however, until about two weeks before his death. in all this, God used constantine and the roman empire in the same way he used the apostle paul and king nebuchadnezzar, to spread His Word to all the nations.

Answer 4

No, I don't agree with that. He was one who promoted Christianity and forwarded the cause but if he had not someone else would have, and Christianity did not need the Romans to continue on.

It was Christianity that saved much of the people of Europe. The Barbarians became Christians which lead many of them to stop their war-monger ways. Before Christianity the known world was in a constant state of war. Conquering people, land, resources was what all groups were all about.

Answer 5

GTXwoman got it right, historically speaking. In terms of what Yashua bin Yusef might have understood 'Christianity' never existed, and the abomination that Paul, the Spouter of Lies, invented with have been anathema to him, and his colleagues of the Essene movement. This doesn't need much study to re-organise one's thoughts anymore, read the Nag Hammadi texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls and understand that the character of 'Jesus' was a synthesis of three individuals, Yashua himself, his younger brother Y'acov, better known as James the Just, the most likely candidate for the 'Teacher of Righteousness' ( remember that 'teacher' in Hebrew is just Rabbi ), and their cousin John the Baptist.

Constantine wasn't saving anything except the declining Roman Empire, and he came up with the brilliant plan of finding a new 'state' religion that would bind the polyglot and disparate cultures spread across the European and Near Asian continents in subjection to Rome, it was nearly Mithra that we all ended up worshipping, whose legend is virtually identical with that of 'Jesus', but a ****-up over a shield heraldary symbol lead to forced decision in favour of the Jewish cult, Paulianity.

It worked out pretty well, Rome was able to stagger on for about 400 - 500 years more, and the Church of Rome ( which replaced it's former secular empire with a supposedly 'spiritual' one ) is still running out it's last gasps today. This latest encumbent being the probable penultimate to hold that office. If his performance these last few days is anything to go by, it will be good riddance.

Please 'Christians', study your own beliefs in more depths before you so lightly condemn everyone who doesn't agree with you. Here, on this board, I see your members jump on every opportunity to tell people they are going to 'burn in hell', when the last pope, John-Paul II actually revoked the whole lie about Hell being an actual place in 1999.

Get with your own program, please.

Answer 6

He hijacked the message of Jesus, introduced paganism and polytheism and thereby saved Judaism from certain death.

If he had not changed the message of Jesus then possibly the message of Jesus would have replaced Judaism instead of creating a new religion.

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Answer 7

the devil could not kill the christians there were too many of them, then he said to his followers if we cant beat them lets join them and corrupt them from within

Answer 8

Constantine INVENTED Christianity. He took Paulianity and altered and twisted an already ficticious story.

Answer 9

No, he tried to kill it by making it the state religion, but it has survived outside of man's control, as it always will.

Answer 10

so he is the fool that helped destroy this planet with that christian fairy the world would have been a better place if he did not save that christian fairy tale