What did Constantine actually achieve?

Question

For the freedom of the church.

Answer 1

Constantine was the first Christian Roman Emperor. He established the new capital of Rome at the old Greek town of Byzantium, which he renamed after himself (Constantinople) and which would be the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. He raised Christianity (which had not long been legal in the empire) to the status of a "permitted religion." He took a direct interest in matters of doctrine, setting a precedent for future emperors, and called the first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church (at Nicaea).
Constantine saw a vision earlier in Gaul on his way to Rome. The most widely known is that at noon on the day of battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine saw a cross of brilliant light imposed over the sun with the words "By This, Conquer" attached. Eusebius the historian in his "Life" says that Constantine personally told him the story. Some sources say Constantine was a "closet" Christian for much of his life. Others say that Constantine became a Christian later in life.
A triumphal arch was built three years after the battle with words about how Constantine saved the republic '"by greatness of mind and impulse of divinity." After Rome was conquered the troops carried a pennant bearing the monogram of Jesus - the Greek letters "chi" and "rho" standing for the word "Christ".
``Soon after the victory (313) Constantine issued the Edict of Milan( recognizing Christianity as an acceptable religion, restoring previously confiscated church property and protecting Christian people from persecution.) Within several years he sponsored the Council of Nicaea to negotiate a statement of orthodox Christian belief that could be recognized across the Empire. The Nicaean Creed continues to be used today``.
Therefore it is complete nonsense to say that Constantine started the Catholic church but it is truthful to say that Christ used him to set the persecuted church free from Roman tyranny,and allow it to flourish as Christ intended.

Answer 2

Chris is a typical modern Fundy who has no idea what he's talking about. I'd ask you, even go as far as to pressure you, as a person of intelligence not to listen to a word he has to say.

Constantine made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire, ergo, this was the first big break that Christianity got in the world,. and had it not been for this, it's more than likely than Christianity would not have survived to the present day.

Until this was done, Christianity itself was nothing more than an underground cult which could not legally practice in public due to the nature of their belief in a single god, rather than the pantheon of Roman gods. It would appear to anyone with common sense that, once the Romans began to believe in a single God rather than their many gods, they became ignorant because of the Christian philosophies of "Love thy neighbour" and "Thou shalt not kill",and then the greatest civilization to have ever graced our planet, ceased to exist. Go figure.

He didn't free the Church from the tyranny of Rome, Diocletian did that, as he was the last to actively persecute the Christians. The Christians were not persecuted within the Roman Empire, but they were not recognized as an official religion until Constantine.

For example, if a group of Christians had set up a church at say, Trajan's Forum, in Rome, one of the busiest sites at this time, then the Urban Legionnaires (policemen), would have simply had them arrested on charges of opening an unsanctioned place of worship without permission from the government, they would have been fined, and told not to do it again. As opposed to during the time of Vespasian, some 200 years before Constantine, the legionnaires would have barred the doors and windows and burned the church down with the worshipers inside, to make an example out of them, and were allowed to do so by Imperial Decree since the time of Nero.

Since Constantine, as Emperor of Rome, was a man of law, he held the Council of Nicaea to codify what Christians believed and what they did not believe, and this is considered to be the first large movement of the Catholic (Universal) Christian Church.

Answer 3

The word used in the Bible for the 'instrument' on which Jesus died...is STAUROS...
It means upright stake or pole.
So if Constantine saw a CROSS [Latin...Crux ] in the sky, it was not caused by God.
Is the Bible correct?

(2 Timothy 3:16-17) All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.

FOR SETTING THINGS STRAIGHT..

Constantine brought in various teachings from many religions...even pagan ones...to establish the Catholic church.
Even the trinity concept, the basic idea of a god having three faces to be able to 'see' everything.
There are many statues around the world depicting this.
The story of Almight God [ Jehovah] and Jesus has been corrupted to fit this idea.

Answer 4

He invented the unsaved catholic cult.

Catholics are not saved and are not Christians. Catholics believe a false gospel of works that leads to eternal hell (Galatians 1).

Bible teachers that said the Vatican and the catholic cult are an antichrist: John Bunyan, John Huss, John Wycliffe, John Calvin, William Tyndale, John Knox, Thomas Bacon, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Samuel Cooper, John Cotton, and Jonathan Edwards

Answer 5

He let them destroy the Roman Empire thereby setting civilisation back hundreds of years.

Answer 6

Well, he ran around with that kick-@ss crucifix that was also a shotgun and blew all those demons away, then he rescued that gal from the "Mummy" movies and punched an angel in the face...