Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Shark24

Thus sayeth Shark24: “Need a Saint Constantine about now.”

It was Saint Constantine that started this whole mess.


17 posted on 11/25/2019 6:12:08 PM PST by fatboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]


To: fatboy

Quite the opposite.


18 posted on 11/25/2019 6:15:25 PM PST by Birdman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]

To: fatboy; Shark24
Constantine is not a Saint of the Catholic Church.

His role was analogous, in a way, to the roles of Persian Kings Cyrus and Darius in Jewish history. They were not Jews, but they aided the Jewish people hugely and removed the boot of oppression from off their necks.

Let me add that Constantine was a pagan, not even a baptized Christian for most of his life. (A "just" pagan, like Cyrus, the just Gentile.) He played an exceedingly useful role in removing the boot of oppression from the neck of the Christian Church. Good emperor, then.

He was finally baptized on his deathbed, by a bishop of the Arian persuasion (Eusebius of Nicomedia).

I would call his baptism -- possibly ---dubious, since the Arians' Christology was screwed up. But that's a good topic for a panel discussion, I suppose. I give him his due, no more, no less.

29 posted on 11/25/2019 7:44:50 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God is Love, and those who abide in Love, abide in God, and God in them.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson