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Not doing your homework. Provide the source. Also as Rome became Christian, pagan worship was outlawed and the Emperor gave devotion to God. Do you disapprove of this?
And it was bad that worship of the True God was promulgated amd false gods was stopped?
As a percentage of the population though?
It comes down to "dancing with the one that brung ya..". It's a story that has played out over and over, God raises you up, and in the pride of life one forgets how they got there. Over, and over.. and over.... It's a message in and of itself. Pre Flood, post Flood, pre Cross, post Cross.. and nation after nation, civilization after civilization.. but, "this time.... This time it'll be different". No. It won't and it never will or would be. God, man and angels... are all witness to this truth, through Millennia. And God, in His perfect Majesty.. did a thing. Made a New Creation.. man, His precious creation... One Spirit with Him. Something so unimaginable in creation, that even the angels have No Idea, what... this could possibly be. It's so beyond imagining...there are no words.
So God used Constantine to glorify himself? Why would God use an Empire you hate and consider the start of the great apostasy?
That's true. Yet public celebrations to the old gods and their sacrifices stopped. This to me is obviously a good thing.
Can you answer whether or not it was a good thing to spread worship of the true God and forbid sacrifice to the false gods? You were the one who asked for this exact thing and where it was happening and when I point out that it did happen you find something else to be dissatisfied with.
You think the Lord counts percentages or by individuals?
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Pagans will always greatly outnumber Christians.
Jesus said the church would be built upon truth from the Father.. a truth that was set aside later in order to incorporate with the world of man. No different than what the Jews had done previously. You cannot change the world of man by acting in the ways of man, no matter what disguise you wear.
Constantine never declared himself God. He was a devout Christian. All this hatred against Rome is nothing but anti-Catholic bigotry. Period!
The ways of man being what exactly? We've had this discussion multiple times and you seem to think that organizing as a political unit, as a community with interests, is somehow inherently against the Gospel. If oppose the things of this world, do you oppose all collective organizations? Church units? Family units? Friendships? Marriages? There is a hideous logic beyond your reasoning that breaks down all bonds and justifies the destruction of all Christian communities and the normalizing of all non-Christian community and it's naive in the highest.
