Did This Roman Emperor Make Christianity More Pagan? | Secrets Of Christianity | Odyssey

Mithraism has its roots in ancient Persia, not the Mediterranean basin.

Constantine aligned Christianity of the 4th century, which had already and continued to root itself into a Greek philosophical school, with the notion of empire and administration. Not sure if this shift was necessarily inevitable. Christianity certainly lost its sense of history as defined by the prophets of Israel. The power of the empire and Platonic and Aristotelian thought created a unique social institution within and part of the power of the Empire.

Lads, Maxentius built the arch and Constantine just added to it.

Pagan is most likely from the word Pakan (Persian) the cleansed ones which later became redefined as vilified to serve a purpose. Contantine's heart never changed but his mind knew what moves to make. The Nordics probably have similar belief toward their gods and so the Galics.

This is such an amazing documentary.

He was baptised just before is death, but some years before, in 325, he promoted and presided among the bishop of Cordoba, the Nicean Council, where they fought doctrines that were not friendly to them, calling them heresy

This is a theological question too. About commitment to Christ, which is not the same as a social institution called (more or less accurately) Christianity. The Christian scriptures validate incarnation and show the first generation's battle with following Christ in their context. Put another way 'pagan' and 'Christian' can be difficult to sort out. It seems likely that both Jesus and also Paul and the other writers regarded themselves as faithful Jews.

Ultimately, Constantine was a shrewd politician. He aligned himself with the cult of Sol Invictus (or Apollo) because it was a generic enough form of worship in the classical world to form a basis for a single homogenous religion across the empire. The documentary is right to show that his objective was to create a state religion venerating the Roman emperor and using symbols from Christianity, Mithraism and paganism to do so.

He’s so funny. Builds a statue, regardless who the statue is of he sticks his own face on it 😂 Takes over and makes a new town, names it after himself 😂😂

Great leaps to connect Christianity to Mithraism.

Very interesting and certainly what Constantine did worked for him.

Wikipedia: Mithra (Avestan: 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 Miθra, Old Persian: 𐎷𐎰𐎼 Miça), commonly known as Mehr or Mithras among Romans,[1] is an ancient Iranian deity of covenants, light, oath, justice, the sun,[2] contracts, and friendship.[3]

Interesting to see the actual monuments and hear about the connections. But the setup and sound effects, pretending this is news is rather exhausting.

Regensburg lecture.

Those marks on the stones could be anything. If a building was marked with a cross I think they would do a better job of it than a scratch that is barely visible?

We call it Constantinian Christianity identified by those celebrating Christmas and Easter, others are calling it Mystery Babylon, and what's really funny is those practicing true Christianity are called cults by them 😂 .

Jacobovici makes stuff up as he goes along.

I'm a Christian

It actually makes sense for us Christians 😅. Just read Paul in Acts 17 talking to Athenians on Mars Hill. Christianity didn’t eradicate all the names for God like Zeus and all those, rather they showed that Almighty is to be YHWH the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. But it brought clearer picture who is this Most High God and what He did in Christ. If Christians would eradicate all completely of pagan mythology, legends and stuff, then it would miss the cultural language to communicate the Gospel to those pagan nations. So it makes sense, whatever Constantine did and whatever his ambitions were, there were a lot of churches by now, a lot of Roman soldiers, who were Christians, at least few christian countries and quite a good amount of church fathers that claimed Jesus is God and defended this idea long long long before 325 and they used New Testament as their source. So it’s funny to me 😂how secular people always make notions about blending with paganism. Of course even Christians would use some art and cultural stuff that was before coming of Christ, because God created art, even if pagans used it. And of course some people still could have secret pagan cults and of course churches would be built on the place of where idols and other gods were worshiped before, because that’s how you change it and sanctify it. Nothing surprising for us Christians and even that communion was adapted by Mithra cult members… were they saw the parallel. The big difference still that Jesus is God became flesh and He rescued people with His own shedding of blood, not some other bulls and goats… He became an offering to reconcile us all, no pagan god did that and won’t find the Incarnation and full Gospel story in any pagan legend about other gods. And about the birth of Jesus, most Christians who really investigate and research the subject know that Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th, but it was one of the possible calculations and miscalculations of some of the church fathers. However the church remained power and right and ability to choose any date. 😅Early Christians celebrated only death and resurrection of Jesus. Wrong date… but hey, all the days belong to God and for His glory and we don’t give Satan or pagan gods any date… we use it as we want as long as we know Whom we are worshipping and what we are worshipping. In fact in communion we celebrate every time Jesus’s birth, incarnation, death and resurrection. But we keep the dates for main folk to follow and just for the official stuff. But was Constantine really Christian or no that’s really interesting and what was his own motives… that’s also interesting.

Armenia, Georgia and Ethiopia was Christian before the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church Also, Constantine's way of professing religion would be closer to Trump, Biden or Putin than even the last Christian rulers of 20th century