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To: Pyro7480
Jesus was born a Jew and remains ethnically Jewish, but He founded the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

Nope....your friend Constantine did that....and the Church he founded bore absolutely no resemblance to the First Century Christian Church of the Apostles. Still doesn't....and never will!

21 posted on 02/07/2008 4:25:31 PM PST by Diego1618
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To: Diego1618

The notion that Constantine “founded” the Catholic Church is nothing but a bigoted fantasy promoted by the likes of Dan Brown. Legalizing Christianity isn’t the same as founding a church.


22 posted on 02/07/2008 4:28:49 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Diego1618

So you agree that the gates of Hell did indeed overcome the Church! Good, at least I know what you believe, and why we should all ignore you.


26 posted on 02/07/2008 4:38:51 PM PST by arielguard (It's lost on me.)
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To: Diego1618
Nope....your friend Constantine did that....and the Church he founded bore absolutely no resemblance to the First Century Christian Church of the Apostles. Still doesn't....and never will!

What foolishness! Jesus Christ founded his Church on earth and it is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, commonly known as the Roman Catholic Church. If you're not a Catholic but consider yourself a Christian know that you are seperated from the One True Church and all the rationalizations in the world, all the illogical assumptions and revised history you can conjure up won't change that fact.

27 posted on 02/07/2008 4:42:02 PM PST by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Diego1618
Oh, Cheez Whiz. Constantine wasn't even a Catholic, let alone the "founder" of Catholicism. He was for most of his career a pagan, but he is appreciated because aided the Church in a manner somewhat analogous to the way the pagan kings Cyrus and Darius aided the Jewish people. (And no, Cyrus was not the founder of Judaism.)

Constantine became a catechumen when he realized he was dying, and he chose the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia as his baptizer. You realize that the Arians were the major opponents of the Catholics, right? Well, then.

If you'd like to corkscrew this around for your own purposes, go ahead, have a bash at it. There's a real market for ecclesiastical fiction. The Da Vinci Code was quite a money-maker, I hear.

38 posted on 02/07/2008 5:11:17 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("We look for things. Things that make us go." Grebnedlog)
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To: Diego1618

You wrote:

“Nope....your friend Constantine did that....and the Church he founded...”

Okay, Diego, you’ve made this absurd claim before. Please document it.


59 posted on 02/07/2008 6:49:56 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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