Constantie 1 was he a Saint or a Judas Iscariot - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Constantie 1 was he a Saint or a Judas Iscariot
Barbara Gilbert

Must members of the church's today does not know much about the Council of Nicaea, and the Law's that Constanitine invoked. They also don't know that Constanitine was Anti-Judiasm as was so many others of the church.

Martin Luther leader of the protestant reformation in Germany; whos doctrines founded the Protestant denomination. Who hated the Jew's and belived they should be waped off the face of this earth.

Hitler belived he was a Spiritual Ancestor of Martin Luther and founded much of his thoughts on Luthers writing. Here is some web sits; http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence.htm
http://www.nobeliefs.com/luther,htm
Martin Luther, Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Luther-Hitlers-Spiritual-Ancestor/dp/1...
Martin Luther's dirty Little Book
http://www.errantyears.com/1997/Nov97/00853.htm

I ask you to go and see for your self how the Protestant church came out of a man full of hate. I ask how can this be the true church of God who hates the people He loves.

Constantine was Anti-Jewish just as Martin Luther, and he did away with the feast that Yahuweh (God) Himself set up. He also changed our sabbath from the 7th day of the week to the first day of the week Sunday.

Constantine, was Emperor of Roman Empire. He also worshipped the 'sun-god,'technically 'converted' to Christianity.

The Council of Nicea was convened in 325 AD by Constantine. His reign maked the alliance of the church and state. christians were no longer persecuted by the pagans. Instead, christians persecuted other (including other Christians) with a zeal and a vengeance that would shock the pagans. More Christians were killed (by other Christians)in the first century after the Council of Nicea than had been killed by pagans in the century before Nicea.

Constanitine, only one year after convening the Council of Nicea, had his own son Crispus, put to death. Later he suffocated Fausta (his wife) in and overheated bath. Then he had his sister's son flogged to death and her husband strangled. It was also during the reign of constantine that the cross became a sacred symbol in Christianity, just as it had been in pagan religions. Throughout his reign, Constantine treated the bishops as political aises. He agreed to enforce whatever opinion the majority of the bishops formulated.

The Jewish Temple was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans under Titus. Then Israel was totally destroyed as a nation with the defeat of Bar Kochba (a false Messiah) in 135 AD. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were massacred. Most of the survivors were dispersed into the Gamut (Diaspora or Exile), many of who were sold into slavery. The final utter defeat of "Church" was seen as the new Israel. Anti-Semitism began to take a firm hold on Christianity. By the time that Constantine called the first general church council at Nicea in 325, Ant-Senitism was endemic in the "Church." The Council of Nicea was attended by 318 bishops, none of whom were of Jewish ancestry.

Passover was still celebrated by the Gentile Christian church, but the Gentiles began to see a need to differentiate "their" Passover from the Jewish Passover. The bishops decided to move the Christian celebration of Passoverto the first Sunday after the Jewish Passover (in most years). The Jewish Passover always falls on the 14th day of Nisan (just as Yahuweh said in Leviticus 23:4-8). Centuries later, the very name of Passover also became distasteful to the Gentile church, and terms such as Easter (the name of a Pagan Gooddess) were adopted by the increasingly paganized church. Occasionally, as in 2005, the Christian observance of Easter is almost a month before Passover.

The first edict in; favor of the 'Venerable Day of the sun' (Sunday) was made at the Council of Nicea. Until this time, both the Christian and Jew generally observed the Seventh day Sabbath, according to the Biblical commandment.

Civil legislation enforced the decrees of the Council of Nicea. This was a victory over the truth by civil legislation. Constantine, as emperor, presided over the entire council. The decisions of the 318 church bishops were endorsed by civil law and backed by military power.

The churches which flourshed in worldly wealth were the primary churches represented by this Council (Do we see this still in our churches of today?). The poor and humble churches could not afford to send representatives over a thousand miles away. The Catholic Encyclopedia says, "Some bishops, blinded by the splendor of the court, even went so far as to laud the emperor as an angel of God, as a sacred being, and to prophesy that he would, like the Son of God, reign in heaven.

Nicea, with its theological Anti-Judaism, Laid the goundwork for Anti-Semitic legislation of later church councils. Like Martin Luther, leading to Hitler and his beliefs. It is sad that the Church of today still hold to this beliefs of Nicea and Antioch Council. They still look to Martin Luther as the father of protestant church.

The council of Antioch 341 AD prohibited Christians from celebrating Passover with the Jews. The Council of Laodicea in the same century forbade Christians form observing the Jewish (Bibilical Sabbath. christians were also forbidden from receiving gifts from Jews or matzoh from Jewish festivals and "impieties."

It wasn't all bad news in those eartly centuries. Judaism was not a "prohibited sect," accredit to the codex Theodosianus of 438 AD. Rabbis were entitled to the same privileages as Christian Clergy. Jews were not to be disturded on their Sabbath or Feast Days. Their synagaogues were not to be attacked, biolated, burned, or confiscated. However, conversion was a one-way street. Jews could convert to Christianity, and were encouraged to do so. However, Christians were forbidden to covert to Judaism. Also, Jews were forbidden to marry Jews. Jewish tribunals were considered valid only in matters purely religious. The Fiscus Judaicus (Jewish tax) from earlier centuries was maintained, a tax which only Jews were required to pay to govemment authoritiess.

The few protections offered by the Codex Judaicus were relatively short-lived. It wasn't many decades until attacks on Jews and their synagogues became commonplace. The Jew was a second-class citizen, somewhat protected by law, but merely tolerated, something akin to the dhimmi status that is given to non-Moslems in Islamic countries. Howeveer, these were the "good old days" compared to the horrors that would be inflicted upon Jews in later centuries by the "Church triumphant." Rav Shaul (Paul) commanded the Christians to "provoke the Jews to Jealousy" with righteous living. Unfortunately. Christians kept only half the commandment; they provked the Jews. If the Christians had of kept what Yahuweh said in Leviticus 23:1-44 the Sabbath and all the feast they would have provked the Jews to Jealousy and they would have came to know who Yahshua truly was.

Considering the rampant Anti-Semitism at the Council of Nicea, I am both surprised and disappointed when I see even Messianic Jews quote decisions of the Council of Nicea in support of certain theologies and creeds. The Council of Nicea (the first geuinely Roman Catholic council) was very creedal oriented. This is stillvery true of most of Christianity today. Creeds is far more important than what you believe. In Judaism, observance of the mitzvot is a litmus test of a good Jew. Little emphasis is placed upon creeds. The emphasis upon creeds in the Christian church has resulted in the deaths of millions of martyrs and "heretics." Christian love and charity were sadly lacking, even to other Christians. We can still see this in the Church of today. If you don't believe as I do and hold to my creeds you will go to hell or where ever they believe you may go. In fact, a Jew often had much better chances of survival than a Christian who was deemed to be a heretic.

Wkipedia, the free encyclop (CONSTANTINE I) says:

Gaius Flavius Valeerius Aurelius Constantine (27 February 272-22 May 337), commonly know as Constantine I, Constantie the Great, or (among Eastern Christians of Byzantine tradition) Saint Constantine, was a Roman Emperor, proclaimed Augustus by his troops on July 25, 306 and who ruled and ever-growing portion of the Roman Empire until his death.

Constantine is best remembered in modern times for the Edict of Milan in 313, which bestowed imperial favor on Christianity in the Empire, for the first time, He was not, however, the first to legalize the practice of Christianity in the Empire. Galerius was the First emperor to issue an edict of toleration for all religious creeds including Christianity in April of 311.

Constantine is also remembered in modern times for the council of Nicaea in 325; these actions are considered major factors in the spreading of the Christian religion (I believe in the wrong way). His reputation as the "first Christian Emperor" has been promulgated by historians from Lactantius and Eusebius of Caesarea to the present day, althought there has been debate over the veracity of his faith. This debate stems from his continued support for pagan deities and the fact that he was baptized close to his death.

FOUNDING OF NEW ROME

Licinius defeat represented the passing of old Rome, and the beginning of the role of the Eastern Roman Empire as a center of learning, prosperity, and cultural preservation. Constantine rebuilt the city of Byzantium, and the new city was Roma (New Rome), providing it with a Senate and civic offices similar to those of Rome, and the new city was protected by the alleged True Cross, the Rod of Mosses and other holy relics, though a cemeo now at the Hermitage Museum also represented Constantine crowned by the tyche of the new city. The figures of old gods were replaced and often assimilated into Christian symbolism. On the site of a temple to Aphrodite was built the new Basilica of the apostles. Generations later there was the story that a Divine vision led Constantine to this spot, and an angel no one else could see, led him on a circuil of the new walls. After his death, his capital was renamed Constantinopoles (in English Costantinople, "Constantine's City").

In 326, only one year after convening the Council of Nicea Constantine had his eldest son Crispus tried and exected, as he believed accusations the Crispus had an affair with, Fausta, Constantine's second wife. A few months later he also had Fausta killed as the apparent source of thise false accusations in an over heated bath. Then he has his sister's son flogged to death and her husband strangled.

Eusebius reports that Constantine was baptized only shorly before his death in 337, tith this, he followed one custon at the time which postponed baptism till old age ofr death. According to Jerome, Constantine's choice fell upon the ARIAN bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, who happened, despite his being an ally of Arius, to still be the bishop of the region.

Notwithstanding his coversion to Christianity, Constantine was deified, like several othere Christian emperors after him. By this late stage of the Empire, deification had lost much of it original religious meaning, and had simply become little more than a posthumous honou (citations meeded). His body was transferred to Constantinople and buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles there.

CONSTANTINE AND CHRISTIANITY:

Constantine is best known for being the first Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity. Although he may have continued in his pre-Christian beliefs, and along with his co-Emperor Licinius was the first to bestow imperial favor on Christianity through the 313 Edict of Milan. Christianity had priviously been legalized by Galerius, who was the first imperor to issue an edict of toleration for all religious creeds in cluding Christianity in april of 311.

Popular legend hold that Constantine I was Christian; however, he never publicly recanted his position as Pontifex Maximus, and the only alleged occurrence of Constantine I coverting was on his deathbed (as reported by later Church Father), which is impossible to verify. His continued belief in Paganism is revealed by the laws he passed. For example, Constantine issued laws confirming the rights of flamens, priests and duumvirs. Although Constantine passed legislation against magic and private divination, this was driven out of a fear that others might gain power through those means, as he himself had achieved power through the sound advice of Pagan soothsayers and this convinced him of Pagan prophecy, His belief in Pagan divination is confirmed by legislation calling for consultation of Augurs after an amphitheater had been struck by lightning in the 320. Constantine explicitly allowed public divination as well as public pagan practices to continue.

CONSTANTINE AND THE JEWS:

constantine instituted several legislative measures regarding the Jews: they were forbidden to own Christian Slaves or to circumcise their slaves. Conversion of Christians to Judaism was outlawed. Congregations for religious services were restricted, but Jews were allowed to enter Jerusalem on Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple. Constantine also supported the separation of the date of Easter from the Jewish Passover (see also the Quartodecimanism), stating in his letter after the First Council Of Nicaea: "it appeared and unworthy thin that in the celebration of this most Holy Feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with emormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul. Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have receiced from our Saviour a different way. Theodoret's Ecclesiastical History 1.9 records the Epistle of the Emperor Constantine addressed to those Bishops who were not present at the Council: "it was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the jews in the celebration of this Holy Festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. ...avoiding all contact with that evil way. ...who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained possion, wherever their innate madness carrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord, ...no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews." "(I guess Constantine never read John 3:16-17 [For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.] So God Yahuweh sent His Son to give His life for us, the Jew did not do this, it was God Yahuweh Him self who did this. Is is sad that Constantine don't see this.)

CONSTANTINES'S LEGAL STANDARDS:

Constantine passed laws making the occupations of butcher and baker hereditary, and mor importantly, supported converting the coloni (tenant farmes) into serfs-laying the foundation for European society during the Midddle Ages.

Constantine's laws in many ways improved those of his predecessors, though they also reflect his more violent age. Some examples:

1: For the first time, girls could not be abducted (this may actually refer to elopements, which were considered kidnapping because girls could not legally consent to the elopement).

2: A punishment of death was mandated to anyone collecting taxes over the authorized amount.

3: A prisoner was no longer to be kept in total darkness, but must be given the outdoors and daylight.

4: acondemned man was allowed to die in the arena, but he could not be branded on his "heavenly beautifled" face, just on the feet (because God made man in His image).

5: Slave "nurses" or chaperones caught allowing the girls they were responsible for to be seduced were to have molten lead poured down their throats.

6: Gladiatorial games were ordered to be eliminated in 325, although this had little real effect.

7: A slave master's rights were limited, but a slave could still be beaten to death.

8: Easter could be publicly celebrated.

9: Sunday was declared a day of rest, on which markets were banned and Public offices were closed (Except for the purpose of freeing slaves). However, there were no restrictions on farming work (which was the work of the Great Majority of the population).

Now we see how ester a pagan festival became the day that christian hold as one of the Holyus Days of the year lossing the true meaning of what Yahshua did for us.

Who was Yahshua?
The Son of God and a Jew.

When did He give His life for us?
On a Passover. He was the Passover Lamb that was slain for our sin's. ever on's sin's

What day is our Sabbath?
These are My fixed times, the fixed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as sacred occassions. On Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a sabath of complete rest, a scred occasion. You shall do no work; it shall be a sabbath of the Lord throughout you settlements

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