Gregory95
You will know them by their fruits
- Jan 15, 2019
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See thank you THIS is useful in helping meNo. It wasn't until almost a thousand years that the Catholic church became similar to what you may know it as. And barely even that.
His main contribution was that he realized that Christians must cease being persecuted, but once he started befriending Christians, he realized they were also embroiled in a dispute of their own. The priest Arius had recently just popped up, teaching a new doctrine that Jesus was more created being than divine, and was against the Trinity. This was about to tear the church apart. Constantine, being a new believer, knew nothing of the details, but could see it wasn't a good situation. So he called all of the bishops of the day to convene and settle the matter. All he did was call a Council. That's hardly a "pope". He didn't even have very strong views about it. He just wanted them to settle this dispute and stop fighting. And he barely accomplished this. He didn't create some "one world religion" or unify much of anything. His own son turned out to be more Arian friendly, and undid a lot of his father's work. It took hundreds of years and a lot of see-sawing in church leadership until we finally got a lot of important matters settled on scripture canon, the nature of Christ, Trinity, etc..
All this guy did was help people stop getting killed, and thought the church's infighting was unseemly. He lent his power to put an end to some of it. That's it! All in all, it's actually pretty boring, and not the big conspiracy-fest that it's in B-quality Evangelical documentaries like "Wheat and Tares".
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