Behind the Curtain of Constantine's Christianity | Parable
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- History tells us that the Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in the 4th century. But did Christianity conquer Rome or did pagan Rome conquer Christianity?
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I'm studying church history at FAU in Erlangen. This is entertaining but a bit sensationalistic, as if the journalist has discovered something that the scholars did not know. I want to clear up some things. Firstly, the theologians, church historians and archaeologists are not all agreed about the extent of Constantine's so-called conversion, which was described by the church father Eusebius in a clearly biased manner. We simply do not have unbiased written accounts from this period! We can, however, look at the laws he created, and his actions. Constantine did make a lot of laws regarding the churches, donated huge sums of money to build churches, outlawed crucifixion and gladiator death matches, granted all Romans freedom of religion and overall was one of the best emperors. However, he also killed his wife and son, and did not officially become a Christian till just before his death.
He did not "convert the whole Roman world" to Christianity, but merely legalized and promoted it. Actually, he was unpopular among the pagans because he put so many Christians in high places. There were many religions in the Roman Empire, some were illegal (like the cult of Dionysus), but Constantine legalized Christianity and returned the goods plundered by previous emperors. Christianity did not officially become a state religion until the reign of Theodosius at the end of the century.
Constantine also did not "create" Christianity, as some suppose. He did make Dies Sol Invictus (Day of the sun) an official holiday for all Romans, but the Christians had been meeting on Sundays for a long time, so this created a syncretized form of Christianity. Most Christians were converted heathens, so they kept many of their cultural practices and bit by bit adapted them to their "new faith", including adding 25 December, birthday of Mithras, to the Christian calendar as Jesus' birthday. Early Christian theologians such as Justin Martyr and Eusebius saw Mithraism as a satanic counterfeit of Christianity and preached against this heathen cult. Sadly, Constantine was antisemitic towards Jews (mainly due to the political revolts by Jews), and brought Christianity further from its Jewish roots. He also brought some shady theology into it, as well, like the idea that God wanted him to be emperor (otherwise, why did he win the battle). This kind of deterministic triumphalism has afflicted Western Christianity ever since.
There really is very little that Yeshua shares with Mithras or Mithraic relgion, except for the imagery (rays of light), the concept of a god having a son (which all Roman religions had) and some pagan rituals which were kept and "christianized" like Christmas. The video talks about Mithras shedding the "eternal blood" of the bull being similar to Jesus shedding his own blood. Well, that really is a stretch. All pagan religions killed animals and shed their blood. Guess which other religion did this? Judaism. Bulls and sheep were killed and the blood "saved" the people from their sins. Most importantly, during Passover, the blood of the lamb saved the people. This is why St. Paul, a Jew, describes Yeshua as a lamb. Eating a communal meal was also a part of Roman paganism (the meat and wine was first offered to their gods). Jewish Christians understood the Eucharist as a form of the Passover Last Supper, but the pagan Christians related it to their background. So, in short, if Mithraism shared some compoenents with Christian rituals, it's because some rituals (prayers, offerings, common meals, words like "eternal", "sacrifice", "immortal", "resurrection") are found in MANY religions, and that Hellenistic Roman culture shared certain elements, including artistic depictions and cultural themes.
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No one does…
@@fernandocustodio3271 speak for yourself you emotional filled person.
@HOUSE OF YAH! I knew that. But in todays day in age, everybody calls him Jesus Christ lmao quit being a simp, it means the same god.
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Philippians 2,5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
************6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regart equality with God a thing to be grasped*************
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[3] being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
It’s crucial to remember that Christianity existed for nearly 300 years before this, a lot of the fellow commenters are seemingly forgetful of that.
Wonder what their motive for the clip is .
Yes, but His birth wasn’t celebrated year after year. That came after. Keep in mind, the Old Testament was a foreshadow of the New. The Jewish feast like Passover, First Fruits, Pentecost etc… were highly celebrated in the Jewish community, and they line up with the death of Christ, His resurrection and the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven.
And Hinduism 600 years before that
@@pritamchakraborty3159well if that applied then we would be watching a video about Hinduism. Now wouldn't we?
All a game
I definitely believe Constantines "religious epiphany" was him realizing Christianity would be a far more efficient method of controlling the masses than brute force alone
Agreed. Controlling the masses IS the primary purpose of religion.
@@keith1689 There is no god except Allah and Muhammad, may Allah's blessings and may peace be upon him, is the messenger of Allah. Your purpose is to worship Allah alone.
@@firmman4505 lol
@@firmman4505 hahahaha
"Alone" being the key word since we know that, in large part, the Catholic Church didn't convert people through altruism, but through the vicious control of information and the murder of millions!
Its a shame how a music video of 3 minutes will have about 100 million views while good documentary like this is on 1 million views
Jesus did not rebel against the Romans but rather criticised the religious authorities of his time. So many errors in this video. Apolo was the Greek Sun God. Sol was the Roman Sun God. Constantine did not found Constaninople city,, but adopted a Greek city Byzantium as his capital, thereafter named after him.
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Constantine the great grandfather christianism of Roman catholic and eastern orthodox. And even Armenian
@@kingofkings1848 Rubbish. The Catholic Church existed long before Constantine.
thanos, was a player in this history as well, his quest brought the avengers together to meet him at the end of history.
@@tonybuck1225 yes and yet they ran towards Constantine’s ruling. The church of in Rome was given to idols.
Before we dug deep into who Constantine was, it is wise to know the Host, sponsors,their aims and objectives.
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ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!!!
The guy deliberately ignores the most important historical facts ,and distorts others.
1. St.Constantine did not turn to the Christian Faith after his vision.
He was brought up by his Greek and Christian mother Helen.
2. Christians in Western Europe where he ruled, were a tiny small minority.
He had no reason to present himself as a fervent supporter of this religion, as he would probably be hated by his army and his subjects.
3. The arch of Constantine was decorated by fragments of previous destroyed arches.
Therefore there are no secret symbolic meanings , apart from the obvious point that Constantine was a victorious and promising monarch.
The supposed Mithra priests statues , are actually Persian officers in chuckles.
4. The overwhelming majority of the empire's population were pagans.
Rome had an official state religion ,the one of the Invincible Sun, an Constantine as emperor ,was Pontifex Maximus.
There was no way he could declare his Christian faith openly without causing massive reaction or even rebellion.
Actually he was secretly baptised at the palace in Constantinople, shortly before his death.
He did though something great :
He transferred the Capital = the heart of the empire ,from Old pagan Rome, to New Rome ( Constantinople),within a Greek and Christian culture.
5. Similarities between Mithra and Jesus Christ, are tottaly fictitious, and were claimed by dome 19th century anti Christian scholars , without the slightest historical evidence.
6. Constantine was so eager to mix up religions ,that he called the 1st Ecumenical Council, with the participation of over 300 bishops, in order to clarify the doctrines of the Christian Faith.
7. A church in Rome was constructed upon a Mithra temple.
What a discovery!!!
Hundreds of Churches were constructed upon pagan temples.
8.The Nativity was placed on December 25 ,when pagan feasts were held.
That was known right from the beginning, and it was done deliberately, so that it would supplant Roman Saturnalia.
9.The new capital of the empire was named New Rome .
It was the people ,that gave gradually the name Constantinople to the City.
10. The column in the square of Beyaziyt mosque, was topped by Theodosius statue ,not Constantine's ,therefore it was called forum of Theodosios.
11. Ravena mosaics were constructed 200 years after Constantine.
12. Constantine couldn't be buried in Holly Apostoles church, as this was built by Justinian 200 years later,and contained real relics of the 12 Apostoles.
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I had believed in the documentary and I have also believed in your exposure ...do u have a channel or any social media platform where u have those interesting facts?
One of the best comments on this feed and the only thing I question is #1? I thought Constaintine converted to Christianity much later in life even after the council of nicaea? It seems like he took the opportunity to use the religion for conquest purposes to me. (My personal opinion, you can have your own) Remember he was only a human being like you and me, flawed in more ways than we know. Also, one of the biggest beefs I have with the council of nicaea is that no females were involved or allowed in the picking of the books that went into the bible. I am still baffled to this day that females can be a part of Christianity. The religion that steals from others and claims innocence.
These are really counterpoints, so you study Christian history or are you a fan of the Roman civilization in general?
Love the comments. Especially of those of you, who met Constantine personally and know first hand his motivation and reasons why he did what he did.
Dont his actions of polytheism speak for themselves? Was the council of Nicea about loving the so called Christ or about creating the dogma needed for a controlling the masses? If He was a Christ follower he would have torn down and stopped sun worship...oh my...We can only judge by actions...
Thank you
Like anyone who knew him would still be alive....
Marlon C. Apparently you have not gone to college, or even had a decent HS class, where you had to complete your own academic research and cite the resource you gleaned your information from, so I won't be too hard on you. They are called primary sources such as historical documents, first-hand knowledge of an event, and peer-reviewed scholarly publications. For example, people might say they know what Jesus the KRST said and yet they are not 2,000 plus year's old.
@@TaniaS_720 well said. Wasn't his wife Christian also?
Lesson: To destroy something, don’t fight people, fight their ideas.
"Since Satan cannot destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution."
J.C. Ryle
Stupidest quote ever
@@DanielleA2023 👍
Yea
What does this mean sorry?
This video doesn't make christianity true. Look at the polytheism that Christianity borrows from the Roman religions
My father read so many books since he was a kid and he told me this many many years ago. I enjoy learning about different religions but yea.. it surprises me how so many people don’t know about this
Yep the truth
@accept challenges ...No surprise here...The whole of the entire Western European religious system is essentially based on the pagan idolatry of Constantine...The Man who will always be known as,
"The Emperor" who built the First "House" of "Christendom" for "ROME".
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All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice!
God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !!
JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
@@TS-zd2ud in Psalm 40 David says no sacrifice is needed. So sacrifice is unnecessary. So you have to find a different explanation for Jesus dying on the ✝️ Yes He is God and the son of God, but it needs further reasons.
@Onur CAKLI ?? CONTEXT!!
??? Yes, no sacrifice is necessary if you keep sinning !! Because then the sacrifice is unnecessary!
You do not mention Constantine's Mother = "HELEN". What role did she have in his reign? his ideas? his decrees?
Simcha Jacobovici is a Jew and those people celebrate every year Hanukkah against Greek influence, so they made a documentary without mention the 12 gods of Rome, the Pantheon, god Helios with the sun rays in his head because all that releted to Greeks
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Constantinople was not a new "city" but an existing Greek city called Byzantium. He made it his capital.
Constantinopolis (officially New Rome) was not the old Greek city of Byzantium. Two different cities they are, as different as Istanbul, Turkey is to Roman Constantinople as Constantinople is to Byzantium.
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Between Constantine and Paul: christianity was commandeered and guided to be an organ of the Roman Empire: which is now the catholic church.
It was designed that way to placate israel classic roman propaganda
He did not create Christianity.
Christianity was alive way before his time. He did declared that all religions would be tolerated in the Roman Empire. Constantine ended the vicious persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire. Constantine was the first in human history to wage war using the name of Christ.
He did not identify himself as “Christian” until he was 40 years old, and he was baptized only before his imminent death at 65.
Constantine wisely perceived that the Catholic church would glue together his fragile Empire, and he fought heretical movements (Arianism) that can jeopardize the unity of the Church or the unity of the Empire. hence He was made a member of in The Council of Nicaea by the Catholic church.
This council stood down the Arians and issued the Nicene Creed. A statement of faith for Christianity.
He was emperor but he did not control the church, the bishops and the Pope were of church. Constantine did not even fully understood the heresy of Arianism and why the church had condemned it. He needed the church to glue together his fragile Empire..
it was created by rome - read caesar's messiah.
@@jotunman627 I've heard a podcast that he had Arianism leanings, but preferred the idea of doctrinal unity which was what the main body of the church. Constantine's issue was that if the new religion he had legalized was subject to in-fighting it would subject his Empire to break apart at the seams.
@@emiliaramos5792 True, When Constantine endorsed Arius’s ideas, there was an uproar that led the emperor in 325 to call the Council of Nicaea to settle the issue. This council stood down the Arians and issued the Nicene Creed. A statement of faith for Christianity.
He held off his baptism until the last moment of his life, in respect to his position (as Emperor) and the Roman Empire....This video is full of misconception and false narratives on Christianity.
Christianity was alive and growing, even before Constantine, there were ten Popes in the lifetime of Constantine.
Constantine just mixed a tiny bit of Christianity with a lot of paganism. All you need to do is read the Bible to find out Catholicism is false.
The Bible was even introduced by Catholicism 🤣🤣🤣 the Bible we have today was the set of Jewish and Early Christian scriptures that were chosen by Catholic fathers and then compiled these to become the Bible.
The 4 Gospel was chosen by the Catholic bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon).
Putting of chapters and verses in the bible was invented by 2 Catholic missionaries.
If you know history well, you will realize what I am saying.
@@w.r.sevilla8956 Truly, it is appalling that so many don't know this
Constantine also gathered the bishops around the Roman Empire and led the council of Nicaea in 325 CE which defined the Christian creed permanently. Those followers of Jesus who rejected this Christian creed were crushed, persecuted, murdered and all of their books got burned.
Books? What kind? That of agnostics? Then God allows that so that heresies are stopped and true Christianity evolved out of the apostate Roman Church(RC) . Not all are exterminated by RC , God has His way to spread His gospel outside the heretic organizations aka cults.
The real belief was Jesus peace be upon him was a prophet. They were made to believe in the trinity, much like today you don't believe Jesus is God then you are going hell. How simple a man is to convince him to worship Satan as God. 😂😂😂😂
As a Jew i confirm that
Yes this comment is true. Many pagan rituals and holidays have been added to Christianity too. Christmas itself has been paganized. Easter or Ishtar as it was. Halloween is NOT a Christian holiday, purely pagan!
All these rituals like turning Jesus's death into a bloody sacrifice where you eat his flesh and drink his blood ARE SATANIC!
We've been duped!
@Titanium Zone It IS true! I've come across EXACTLY the same information in my own research! It's not like it's a big secret either!
Sounds like a little research is just what you need!
"The Council of Nicaea was in BC" you said! WRONG! Go read about it before you attack the comment!
An interesting mix of historical perspectives and exaggerated speculations. It's pretty clear that Constantine's Milvian Bridge story is at the very least his own revisionist perspective, years later, told in the company of Christian clergy and almost certainly tailored to that audience. I can also imagine him equating Mithras and Jesus Christ, religiously, and reimagining and reinterpreting what he'd experienced years earlier. He clearly wasn't actually Christian until later in his life, and by most accounts, Constantine didn't convert to Christianity formally until the time of his death. But much of the other speculations in this video - of Constantine seeing himself as divine and possibly the replacement of Jesus is just typical Roman Imperial stuff. All the Roman emperors either actively sought to promote the idea of their own divinity or had it done anyways by the populace (remember Vespasian's comment to his son Titus as he was dying - wryly remarking that he felt like he was 'becoming a God'?). So the video's portrayal of this aspect as somehow unique to Constantine - that he was uniquely self-centered among the Emperors in seeing himself as Godlike - can't be taken seriously. That's what they all did. All-in-all though quite interesting, particularly the detailed analysis by the professional guests of the arch and other artwork and archeological findings.
Some people can't handle Truth and rather follow a lie
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@@islamsalaam1129 Honestly it is the truth... I do not expect a ruler of a country to be fully devoted to one faith, especially in a free-religion state like Rome back in those days... The Legend of Constantine is a white lie, as I am sure he baptized at the end of his life,which is rather a semi-common tradition to those that are not full Christians...
My point is *not everything is black and white* ... An emperor cannot act as Queen E the first or her sister Mary, especially in a country with Mithran elites and poor (to middle) christians... At that time Christianity is on the rise and on parr with Mithra elites, I doubt he can stay at his seat by being full Christian... But I am sure he is attracted to the religion as it supports the poor and the needy like he once was...
@@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 truly even amongst Christianity there are differences of opinions concerning Constantine and Paul. So why should I believe any of them
This is why understanding history is so important as we continue to evolve. Religion has been the most greatest tool used to control the people, so now that we are living in a time where we can question EVERYTHING without being put to death (in most countries) people can form their own opinion to chose what to believe in & why
I don't think it matters if he was a true Christian or not. Christians as a religion were no longer persecuted in Rome. Sounds like a win to me.
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It would seem that the Roman Empire was struggling to survive as a viable state at the time Emperor Constantine decided to find a way to shore up a broken, decadent empire.
After all, the Romans had spent a lot of time trying to wipe out Christianity, by means of: torture; imprisonment; mass murder; repression of communal worship, etc. At the end of this effort, the faith was actually growing, instead of being destroyed.
Certainly, Constantine must have thought, 'if you can't beat them, join them.' Here was a community of people who had defied all the odds, while maintaining their morals, and other values, something lacking in Imperial Rome at this time. Simply incorporate this strong community into the weakening Roman culture by means of the law, and Rome would last forever. Or, at least, that was how the story should have gone.
It was rumoured, and it it is not mentioned in the video that Constantine's mother was a Christian, a Brit, and possibly an aristocrat. His father being a Roman and possibly a follower of Mithras?
@@gordonbryce Helena was a Christian is not a rumor but an historical fact. She had a big influence on Constantine. Things aren't as simple to one side or the other as people like them to be seem.
@@Krafanio Yes, history is often smudged over and rewritten to suit other political agendas. I agree.
Christianity was totally and fervently at odds with Roman pagan culture. That is why it was persecuted. It was totally alien to Roman culture, including its passivity to violence and it harsh ridicule of the pagan gods. It was in no way politically expedient for Constatine to embrace it.
he corrupted the teachings of Jesus as well
He was so humble he named the city after himself lol
He didn't. He called it "Nova Roma" - New Rome. The epithet Constantinople became the general name for the city after his death.
Halo of light around a deity's head can be seen literally in many religions. In Hinduism, we have so many Gods depicted with a halo of light around their heads representing that they are divine beings
I find this history lessen actually fascinating. I have to listen to this again to take it all in. I have visited most of these places when I was young. Today retired back in my own country I am previlaged to be a arm chair traveller revisiting these same places and makeing sence if what I once saw. Thankyou Mr.Simka for this memorable and very interesting History lesson I treasure and have something to ponder about my entire day today.
Lastly I do follow your other programs as well
and enjoy it!
@@ianthedesilva9676 I hope one day I will also visit all these ancient places around the world because I love History and Mythology so much
I’ve been to some of these places and now I really want to revisit Constantine’s arch.
Any true historian knows that like all Roman emperors he was pretty full of himself. I am surprised how there is no mention of how Constantine is influential for the organizing the early church and council of Nicaea
Hinduism,Buddhism or rather sanatan dharma is totally different from abrahamic religions. The former are like real, delicious mangoes .
The latter, colored, flavored, preservative added, carbonated mango drink.
@@solelysoul8543 Lmao
There is so much information not mentioned here. Like how Constantine’s Mother was a full blow Christian and traveled to the Holy land relic hunting and establishing churches along the way.
The vision Constantine saw wasn’t the cross at all but rather Chi-Rho. “In this sign, conquer.”
It is quite common for Roman Emperors to build giant statues of themselves or more accurately steal them from old emperors and have the faces changed. It’s also common practice to have yourself deified as an emperor.
What these “historians” should be looking at is the written trail that was left by the man to see what faith he held. In that you read of a man that was trying to unify the church and stop in fighting. He called the first Council of Nicaea to help deliberate with the bishops of the day and help mend rifts that came about due to differences in teachings. A megalomaniac wouldn’t concern himself with such things. He himself had the word “consubstantial” added to the Creed that settled the matter of Jesus and God being of the same material.
Let us not forget that he wrote several laws that gave Christians freedom to worship openly and returned lands and buildings that were taken from Christian churches and citizens.
This program is pure garbage with as much historical bases as an Inquirer periodical has in facts. It does not site historical documents and cherry picks information to represent its own views and lead the ignorant astray. Do some reading in actual books. You’ll see that Constantine did a lot of work for the good of the church and that he was a Christian.
We know that Constantine's wife, and daughter were both fanatical Christians. Was it not these women who declared that they had found "Nazareth", and then created a pilgrimage site out of it?
Lol
Mother too
He was in deed a pagan but Nothing is always far from the truth ...the real God still reigns
Dre he was in (moral dilemmas) just like pastor joel .... hmmm sad
Tjere is no real god, there is several alien species
Lol @ real God, 4200 religions and 2923 Gods and Dre Olwa happens to have the real one, what are the odds 😂
Fascinating story; regardless of Constantine's alterations to early Christianity, it's hard to imagine Christianity becoming a widespread world religion without his support or without the embrace of the Roman Empire for that matter. Even though Constantine DID NOT make Christianity the official religion of Rome, he set the tone of tolerance to Christianity, which only later would become the official religion. Let us just imagine if Rome had embraced Judaism, Zoroastrism or any other Religion as their official credo. The world would certainly be very different. It was through Roman conquest that Christianity spread throughout Pagan Europe, and later it was through Christian European conquest that Christianity would spread throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and pretty much everywhere.
And in doing what you say, spread the lie of Christianity and the myth of an abrahamic god.
The truth of the Gospel will never be dispelled.
It is the very foundation of Truth.
The enemy tried to mix paganism in with it which in turn created the Roman Catholic church, and the Roman Catholic church was known for burning true Christians alive for even having a Bible written in their own spoken tongue.
The truth always wins.
@@stephenagnewii3325The Bible was been rewritten over and over again to different languages. The so-called disciples never wrote the Bible the Bible came from later scrolls so the Bible is just a lie. God is real the Bible just a way to control people.
Constantine did no such thing, this video is lying.
There’s a book called the Great controversy it’s mind blowing and has a similar line of thought. Just started reading and wow!!!
The author?
Ellen G white - Great controversy
EGG White
I watch him work wonders every day in my life. God is great
So why are there kids being abused and killed ?
@@djollyrodjeur the same reason you sin and go against Jehovah's commandments. Don't blame The Lord. Blame yourself and all the other wicked and evil human beings.
That's why. We all have a choice. Free Will. Do good or do evil.
Grow up! And stop asking dumb questions.
How can we trust Constantine when he claims that Jesus or an angel from God showed him a sign of the cross in the sky with the words in this sign you shall conquer. Would Jesus tell Constantine to kill people in Jesus name? In Revelation 21 and in revelation 22 Jesus says murderers will not make it into the kingdom
@@djollyrodjeurBecause theres no god
The Mithraic religion highlighted the movement of the Sun across the elliptical. The movement
from the constellation of the Bull ( Taurus) to the constellation of the Ram ( Aries) took place at about 2,100 bc. Prior to that Spring commenced in the constellation of Taurus for about 4200 Bc to 2100 bc. The fact that Mithraism Was a secret and elitist religion is not because it was different from the Roman religion per se , but it added an esoteric spin to the Roman Greco religion, particularly from
About 200BC , because the constellation of Aries matched the sign of Aries due to the precession of the equinox.
In Persia, where the magi originated from .. the lamb was known as the Ram.. so the author gets it wrong here .. the symbolism of the cap was from the Zoroastrian faith, where it is mandatory for Zoroastrians to wear a cap. This practice Was adopted by the Jews and Muslims later. The Mitraic religion is influenced Mitra of the Indo - Zoroastrian faith.
Going back to Astronomy , sign of Aries , which is symbolised by the Sun bcoz Sun reaches it zenith or exhalation point in Aries and that explains the reference to Mithras as the Sun God.
No doubt, Constantine had motives in combining Christianity with the Mithraism and this can be seen by the church adopting Easter corresponding to Sun’s move into Spring
Equinox which coincided with so called the rite of spring celebrations which later on became Easter. The’s sun movement into Capricorn or the winter solstice on 22nd December was adopted as the birthdate of Jesus to make it easier to combine the Greco Roman customs into Christianity.
Excellent words.
Thank you good sir. Glad to see others teaching the truth on public forums
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Very good information
Yes Mithra literally means Same in Hinduism too . Mithra is referred to Morning Sun or the one who provides path to travel to the sun in different signs
Constantine noting that he had to unite the two armies the army he used and the conquered army of the enemy he had to unite the two with some form of belief emerging at the time in case Christianity, he was just opportunist all along.
...thus, controlling the entire empire, with some form of unified belief...
Sounds plausible but just because it sounds good doesn’t make it the Truth. Seek truth for yourself. To be open to the Truth, one has to become blind. Truth is not transient and thus hard for some to accept and understand.
Facts lol some don’t get it
Why would a Conquerer King want to merge the defeated solders? they are poweless without arms and ne King would have done anything he wanted with them. This logic doesn't fit. Could be that most of the Roman citizenry were christians and he wanted to control the masses through this fusion.
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The old question arises here. Did the Church join the Power to acquire more preponderance? Or on the contrary, was it the Power that sought the alliance with the Church?
Constantine the Great truly changed the World he's on the same level as Alexander the Great and Octavian Augustus
Jesus of Nazareth perhaps ?
How did Constantine change the WORLD
@@kevwhufc8640 He changed the world by polluting who Jesus was and Christianity. All his people were Pagans and when he said that they were to become Christians, the simply changed clothes and said "Were Christians now," but they still practiced their Pagan ways. They didn't give a Damn about Jesus or Christianity they only did what Constantine said to be. That's not Christianity at all. And they never went by Jesus's teachings either. The Catholic churches are just a left over remnant of the Holy Roman empire and all religions today follow the Catholic churches. The Baptist say yeah we believe in the trinity too but we don't pray or worship saints so we're gonna do things our way. And the Methodist follow close behind the Baptist and Protestants and Lutherans and Evangelist all of them are followers of the Catholic churches. They're just different variations of the Catholic churches.
@@ScottRock-mr6qk Constantine never claimed to be a Christian, if you look at his images, statues, mosaics and especially his coins, he continues to worship pagan gods, Mars Jupiter, Concorde, victory, and especially sol, the legend around his coins he refers to himself as Divus ,or PN a God of God's, there was no single Christian church in his time where they all believed the same thing, even almost a century after his death when Theodosius became emperor he chooses to outlaw paganism and made christianity the official state religion, but he writes about the many Christian sects who all disagreed with the others about one thing or another, he sent his men to wipe them all out unless they accepted his version.
But even Theodosius continued using some pagan traditions, the legend around his coins claim him to be a God, the reverse depicts some pagan gods, after his wife died he minted coins with her image on the obverse claiming her as a goddess.
The Christian church was still divided over many things
The east and western churches didn't agree about when Easter should be celebrated, that didn't happen until the 7th century.
The emphasis on an “ afterlife” for soldiers fighting in bloody battles must have been very consoling
29:05 Ahnk in left eye.
Egyptian influence of the eternal or after life.
@@verycaring2387 I always thought the doctrine of the immortal soul came from the Greeks.
"The early Christian Philosophers adopted the Greek concept of the soul's immortality and thought of the soul as being created by God and infused into the body at conception." (Encyclopedia Britannica (1988), volume 11, p. 25) They came up with Hell too.
@Elizabeth Pitts Thank you. I appreciate your comment very much. Nice to have a bit of support.
I always just assumed I was going to die. It is easier than worrying
PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !!
All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice!
God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !!
JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
Now THATS what I call a “Narcissist” 🤣
no. more like master politician.
@@thatisme3thatisme38 a narcissist in other words then 😊
@@heavymeddle28 well I guess in a way. Love for power sometimes can entail constructing a personality cult just like the communist leaders used to do. They weren't necessarily narcissists. They just liked power.
@@thatisme3thatisme38 yea, I know. I just couldn't help myself writing what I did 😊
@@heavymeddle28 it’s a common thread, or the common denominator. Narcissistic behavior always has some element of power and manipulation involved. The narcissist may not exhibit a hunger and thirst outwardly, but the point behind who they are is to have control and they suffer a narcissistic injury when someone stands up to them. Control is power, manipulation is something all narcissists covet.
Sun is called as "Mithra" in Sanskrit language.
"Surya Namaskar" mantras contain a mantra having word "Mithra".
Yes We Have A Mantra || Aum__Mithraya__Namah__ ||
Yes Mithra Is Another Name Of Sun God ..Surya Dev's
So what’s the origin for Mithra?
Mitra is the chariot driver ... he's Suryas brother.
@@Ayo-this-is-Dad-Bunny-0-1-0-1 No he's his brother.
Constantine didn't make Rome Christian... He made Christianity Roman. He turned the destroyer of Rome into the Savior of Rome smh
Did my ancient ancestor Constantine tell you that?
Raymond
Excellent work!! . . . If only people would understand that 'compromise' is the biggest assault against the true Jesus & original Christian faith.
*_2 Corinthians 11: 4_*
A lot of people don't realise that Jesus was speaking to.the People of his day and Nero is the only person that adds to 666 and the last part does not speak of the burning of the world it's talking about Rome itself.
Also the 7 churches existed back then not now
And that’s why Turks came and destroyed them.and they were carrying the new true bridge to God.Islam.
@@francesottewill2538 Nero isnt d only one dat adds up to 666
When did Christ command his disciples to go forth and convert the world with the sword?
never..my ancestors have heavy ties to the Holy Empire, around 800 AD and I'm a devote Catholic, but I don't include the Vatican in my worship. and I'm also Slav, which is the word Slave comes from, so when I hear people in the US talking about slavery, I'm in awe
And a big mistake was made during this time, when the Greeks translated the Old Testament in 330 AD
And the Romans didn't kill him, they tried to save him,
He does, in form of his father, in Old Testament!
@@ozzy82nick ok did he also rape, steal, enslave and murder as the church
Christians were present in numbers in the Roman empire before Constantine. What he did was make it official.
Yup, Apostle Peter, Apostle Paul, Clement of Rome among others were preaching the Gospel in Rome in the first two centuries
What do you mean?! This is everything!
@@V.F._Kritikos NO, the letters go to the household of ceaser, the truth was that Chrstianity was growing so much that there was no way to 'stamp it out' but raher it was better to accept it and such.
Not true. Christianity didn't exist before the Council of N 325 AD. Gnostic tribes/churches like the Essenes, Gentiles etc.
Study Eusebius and Josephus
@@JJ-cw3nf no. They were all GNOSTIC. BUDDHIST-JEWISH sects
32:17 He named the city Nova Roma (New Rome). People after his death started to call the city Constantinople.
38:33 Jesus was never an anti-Roman rebel. He even said give to Ceasar what is to Ceasar. He didn't come to destroy the empire but to save the world and that includes the Roman Empire.
Historical channel he?
They did tried to substantiate the mystery but it is not enough. Another person could have done or researched it differently or paint it the whole picture differently. There are still many questions to be answered. A single documentary can't explain it all. All the same , good job.
agree this documentary is more like anti Constantine
a fake documentary that misinforms everyone.
The ultimate "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
That would apply for every Muslim community who used to be Zoroastrianism and Hinduism and the people of Latin and south America who are now Catholics 😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The cross is a symbol of the sun god. finding a cross carved in stone doesn't mean they were Christians in the Roman army.
In a diferent age, a long time ago that mankind forgotten we hade knowlege of things that came directly from the celestial kingdom. Try to investigate and you will see a lot of things that were taken from the scriptures because we man think they were dangerous. The only danger was that they will not control us anymore to do their wicked work using the words of God and profets. One example, the book of Enoch it's one.
The cross is literally a torture technique… which is why there was two thieves hanging on either side of Jesus.
Cross comes from the Kabalah
@@brandonfloyd4618 the christian cross is the solar cross of the zodiac
@@aaronspo1
They worship on Saturn's Day
"Cain," in Hebrew in pronounced "Khan" with closest English spelling as "Chan " "Cain/Khan/Chan" had a son "Khanoke" or "Chanukah."
Old History changes for every day..
Nothing what we were told, matches up anymore.
The first edict of recognition and tolerance of the Christian religion was issued by Emperor Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus on April 30, 311. Emperor Galerius was of Dacian origin. On the Arc de Triomphe of Constantine there are 8 statues representing Dacian nobles as well as the bas-relief with the emperor Constantine and his pretorian guard formed by the Dacians. Start the documentary from these historical realities.
Least nationalist romanian
Constantine pulling a Nebuchadnezzar on us
Dang🤣🤣🤣
The crosses on Hadrian’s wall could literally mean anything
First of all
Constantine did not invent Christianity, as it had existed for over 3 Centuries Before he was born.
He only legalized Christian worship and freedom for Christians to worship as they saw fit.
For them to understand and interpret those sculptures on the wall is so phenomenal to me.
God is His own interpreter. "Let there be", and the was. Hebrews 13:8
How??
PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !!
All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice!
God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !!
JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
@@Hannestv4607 yeah we got. All religion is a lie except yours. Cool story bro.
let's take Islam as an example!:
Islam presented itself as a LIE and FRAUD when it denied Jesus its sacrifice !!
Because God is holy, he cannot be GRACEFUL in the JUDGMENT !! So God always has to judge righteously in order to be holy !!! Does he not judge righteously! he would judge injustice and he would be UNHOLY !! Grace is not fair because it is a GIFT that you do not deserve! If you had earned it, it would not be GRACE but JUSTICE !! So a HOLY GOD cannot be MERCYFUL when he is JUDGING !! So FACT is without JESUS HIS SACRIFICE, it doesn't work !!
So logically and rationally seen is a fact if Jesus did not die for the sins of the world and is not God then it does not work! !! Just like in Islam !! IS ALLAH a LIAR when he says he is the RIGHT JUDGE (which he must be if he is HOLY) ??? Or is ALLAH a LIAR when he says he's MERCIFUL !!!!
First of All, any argumentation against Christian Doctrine isn’t exclusively “Western”. Constantine had just as much influence of the Eastern side of Christendom as well.
Eastern church did not split from the "western" Catholic church until 1024AD
This "documentary" is a fairy tale
Yes but western christians don't give name Constantine to their children . Eastern ones do..
"All lies and jests, still man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
Simon & Garfunkel 'The Boxer'
The more of this I watch, the more I see this isn't the only time this has happened
Akhenaten, Constantine and Louis XIV all worshipped suns, all immediately made themselves heads of a new religion, and all moved the capitals of their kingdoms into new cities.
Is there something all these guys seemed to know about that we dont?
I think Putin will do the same ...
@dre2dee2: they all worshiped only one deity
Apt.
@Dre2Dee2; find the longitude and latitude of the new capitals for corellation
Old unhistorical rubbish! The Constantinian Arch in Rome was commissioned by the Roman Senate, not by Constantine himself, so it proves nothing. The first narrative about the Milivan bridge is by Lactantius, not by Eusebius. A medallion was issued at Ticinum in 315 AD which shows Constantine wearing a helmet emblazoned with the Christian Chi Rho symbol and coins issued at Siscia in 317/318 AD repeat the image. So the Christian symbols were used by Constantine himself soon after the battle. All the rest is one big protestant conspiracy theory without any hint scientific truth or reason.
An easier way to know that Constantine didn't do what he's accused by these Historically illiterate idiots is to simply read or acknowledge the writings of the Ante-Nicene fathers from Polycarp to Athanasius.
When you do that, you see that Constantine didn't "Corrupt the Church"
i could not agree more.
Markku. Finally a correct rational interpretation of Constatine.
Yes, there were Christians in the Roman Army. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches name some of them as military saints and matyrs. One of Constantine's closet advisor and biographer, Lactantius, was a Christian early on. Constantine's mother, St. Helena, is also famous for finding the "true cross" and major shrine churches in Jerusalem
Depends upon your definition of Christian.
She took the cross to wales and his it in a cave and sealed up the entrance it's still there today
Helen is buried nearby under a mound
*Constantine* Created Christianity in Year 325 He Never *Converted* To Christianity Because He Knew That It's Fraud And Was Created By Himself at *Council Of Nicae*
@@kafirheathen2039 Oh, that's why there were thousands of long-ordained Christian clergy at the Council !
If you can't beat 'em Lead 'em
Probably the original Trump. Just say anything the idiots want.
@@balajay8921 why do you mean that everybody were idiots?
Trusting a JOURNALIST to find "the truth" is like trusting a career politician with the running of a country. In other words downright foolish.
Constantine was so powerful and influential that he tried to change God's Sabbath to his Sun worship day (Sunday) that is adopted by most Christians today.....let's wake up! there remains a Sabbath for the people of God today (Hebrews 4:9-11)
If you Read Revelation 1-3.. JESUS tells u himself what he thought about Constantine
Pergemus was the State Church of Rome/Church of Constantine
I'll tell you what Christ says to this church
@@lucianewell6084 There was no person that ever existed called jesus
@@boeing10000 are you Arab
@@boeing10000 Islam
Well, they looking for crosses in the arch, but Constantine didn’t used crosses; in his vision, he was ordered to paint XP in his army’s shield as a symbol of victory, XP , XP which is a Christian monogram made up of the Greek letters khi and rho, the first two letters of Khristos, the Greek form of Christ's name.
Interesting. I wonder why they didn't add that...
And there's not even that on the arch.
Yes, very true. But no chi rhos either.
The arch is irrelevant anyway. It was commissioned by the Senate as a gift for Constantine, to be built by his 10 year anniversary for him to visit Rome. Constantine didn't rule from Rome ever, and only visited twice as emperor. He ruled from Mediolanum(Milan) and Augusta Treverorum(Trier), and several cities in Illyricum and elsewhere. We don't know if Constantine had any thing to do with the arch's design. It's entirely made of spolia. Even the sculptural relief band going around the monument commonly attributed to Constantine's time may be spolia from a monument begun by Probus or Carus.
All the Tetrarchs did this. The only story being told on Constantine's arch... Is being told through the use of older sculptures from previous emperors' monuments. I can't believe the doc doesn't even mention this. It must be the only look into the arch that doesn't immediately go into the history of the sculptures and which emperors commissioned them(Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, etc).
Other than that, it's a very impressive arch, and the inscription is obviously from Constantine's day, but written by the Senate. If people want some evidence of Constantine's conversion, the fact that he spurned Jupiter Capitolinus in his triumph, a totally unprecedented and bizarre move, and the fact that he began giving his children a Christian education at this time, and began closing certain pagan temples, etc.
Mixing religions together is as old as it could be. Introducing paganism into christianity which was a mix with judaism and a few new ideas. Sounds not to farfetched.
The Council of Nicaea, which OFFICIALLY established Jesus as God for the first time in Christianity, was organized by a Roman emperor named Constantine, who was a pagan and not a Christian, and was only baptized shortly before his death.
1. He chose which priests and churches would be invited, thereby arranging the "majority" and "minority" positions at the Council of Nicaea.
2. Nicaea, Anatolia, was an area where the majority of the population opposed Arianism, the doctrine that believed Jesus was not God.
Thus, it is clear that Constantine did not need to be actively involved in the council, as the participants had already been "selected," the environment was "arranged," and therefore the outcome of the voting decisions was likely predictable by Constantine.
Mithras was the god worshipped in India, where he was called Mitra, from there his followers spread westwards and spread the religion of Mitra.
@fatas locos A lot of rituals and ideas are borrowed from pagans by Christians yet they demonize them!
Your own religion was come from Persia, ain't you heard of the Aryan invasion?
@@tantrum17 There's was no Aryan invasion. It was just a colonial conspiracy theory to make Hindus feel that what they value the most is also not their own. That would make Hindus have a defeatist mentality and such people are easy to rule over.
@@himanshukhichar4185 Man oh man! You are still on peoples talks? Dna pattern of most brahmins in your country proves that their ancestors were from European. Not only that even factual proof. Check "The Hindu" article about this. If you think Ramayana and Mahabharata are history then Ima ask forgiveness from you because believing in things that are mentioned in that book is absurd. Iron is used in this stories whereas iron was discovered 3500 years ago. Hanuman settings a gold city on fire(like seriously?) As Ik if you set fire on a gold object it shines not burns. With the sperms of the Rishis animals gets pregnant, sun being the hottest object in the solar system comes and have sex with a women and gives birth to karana. If you go with facts and proof, this only implies that most of this stories are made up in recent years.
@@tantrum17 Bible stories are much worse and superstitious and boring too. Other cultures have much more interesting mythologies. But the funny thing is that people believed them to be literally true for thousands of years and some even do now. 😂😂
Constantine was a political and legal genius. He managed to get baptized by an Arian on his deathbed and still convince main stream Western Christianity to except him. The master theologian Athanasius might have some words.
Accept and except are different words with different meanings.
By an Arian? Prove it. where is any of ur proof? He funded and made Christianity the main religion even atheist scholars agree on this long before his dead. it’s only now that satan is getting so desperate that all u and him can come up with us lame debunked Conspiracy theories.
@@supppppz8823 oh knock off the 19th century baloney. How about read your primary sources instead of parroting 19th century nationalists regarding Constantine the first. The guy backed areas at the council of Nicaea and helped put the Arians in power even though they were condemned and excommunicated.
@@longforgotten4823 again. Prove it d-0-g- u haven’t proved a Single thing.
@@longforgotten4823 the priest who baptized Constantine, become arian after the baptism of Constantine, no before. By the moment of the baptism of Constantine, this priest (Eusebius of Nicomidia) was orthodox christian, not arian
Wow, so Constantine was a self serving leader who used religious imagery to maintain power. Sure glad we’ve moved beyond that today! 😂
Lol facts
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Why americans can't just make a documentary without constant epic hells kitchen war-like music and sound effects playing in the background i will never understand.
The Italians should protect the arch and other historical artifacts from the elements.
Why?
@@toddmaek5436 world history should be preserved for future generations assuming there are any
Nothing last forever. As much as I love art, we should keep art in its original context for the enjoyment and understanding of it original intention.
Wouldn't want the lies to get damaged eh?
Constantine changed the name of the true hebrew Israelite messiah (Yahawashi) to the Roman-Greco false messiah who came in his own name jesus.Truth is truth,)They were never called Christians then,.only beleivers.He wasn't called jesus then either. ONLY Yahawashi.Constantine created the name jesus.Nobody called a name that wasn't invented.Come on man!The Roman religion of constantine
is a false one.All Israelites MUST come out of this false religion.The wrath of Yah will be poured out on this false religion without mixture. Now, ask yourself is that what you want?
Are you a christian
False
How ridiculous.
No such person messiah called Jesus ever existed on this earth. I have been studying.
hebrew Yeshua translated to the greek according to the greek language rules: "Iesus". The letter "J" appeared around the 17 century... "I"/Jesus. In their translation of the Bible when you read the Gospels, they wrote about Yeshua going to Yerushalaim: "for the feast of the jews". Yeshua was a jew, and his followers were jews. When they wrote about it, they must have written the name of the Feast of Yehovah they were to celebrate (They had several). They would not refer to themselves as "the jews". Also when they mention the pharisees, they say "the jews". True Christianity started with jewish believers of Yeshua ha Masiach, then God manifested to the gentiles as well and of both He made one group.
It is clear that people who were NOT jews nor christians altered the Scriptures, to portray the "jews" as evil, and many jew believers were still jews! Believing in their Mesiah did non strip them of their jewishness.
Constantine also changed the ceremonial day of worship from Saturday to Sunday to reflect his relationship with Sun Mithras and Apollo
Rocky balboa fought Apollo Creed. Rocky balboa is rocky Ba'al boa, the sun serpent or serpent sun. Apollo creed had a son named Adonis creed. Adonis is another representation of the sun. The creed of the sun. Adonis is Adoni, the singular version of Adonai. Apollo is apollyon. Jesus, the great Amen, pronounced in the middle east as "Amun" is Amon Ra, Jupiter Ammon, zeus ammon, ba'al hammon. The most high, the sun, the Rama, the Ram, the son of God. Jupiter ammon, zeus ammon, ba'al hammon all have ram horns. Jesus is the lamb
it was changed because one of the most admired day for christians is the ressurection day that happened on sunday.
@@joshuacromley7439
Mitrá is one of Sanskrit name for Sun/Surya is from Vedic origin. similarly the Hindu God Shiva has many names, people in Southern part of India also call him Baal, Kabali, which means one with long hairs. Kaaba in Mecca was earlier a pagan temple of Kabali hence it is called Kaaba, the black stone in Kaaba is Shiva(Lingam/Symbol). Ptah is the creator deity of ancient Egypt, in Sanskrit we call the Almighty Father as Pitah or Pitah Parameshwar. Mittani Gods are Hindu Vedic Gods. all pagan gods including greek and roman originated from The Hindu Vedic pagan gods. They were spread to these places by colonies of Ancient India, particulary by the Thirrayar clan of Kerala, these people were called Etruscan by romans and greeks called them Tyrrhenian, the Tyrrhenian Sea is named after them. Rome was established and civilized by ancient Indian people. All Greek knowledge is Vedic Hindu knowledge.
@@rishitsrivastava7428 technically yes and no. The Phoenicians are the venetians/romans, but yeah hinduism is where it all originates. The story of shiva is the story of Odin. Hinduism actually helped bring this all full circle for me years ago, more specifically chapter four of the bhagavad gita. But the exoteric version of all these stories has multiple meanings, based in astronomy, one of the four sciences on modern mathematics, and alchemy
@@dimitri1798 It can be proven by the New Testament and using the Hebrew Calendar that he didn't Ressurect on a Sunday. That is an age old lie told by Christians to celebrate Pagan Easter and they use Easter Sunday then as an excuse to keep a false Sabbath. If you want me to explain it all let me know it isn't a baseless claim. Btw I'm actually not Christian at all I used to be but I left it for Judaism after doing alot of research
All v. well-known facts. But 1 was missed: that Constantine's mother (St.) Helena was Christian. Upon her son's gaining the imperial purple she also became the most successful archaeologist ever: discovering the True Cross, the site of Christ's Crucifixion and Sepulcher etc. all during a brief stay in Jerusalem. It might've been due to her influence that, despite being a megalomaniacal pagan at heart, he built gigantic basilicas for the Christian faith, called ecumenical councils to find an accord between the various churches, to codify the scriptures, but did nothing to perpetuate Mithraism or the cult of Apollo. The one interesting revelation in this documentary was the relation of the Arch vis-a-vis the colossal statue of the sun god. Simcha would be so much more convincing if he were either really clean-shaven or sported a thick well-kempt beard, but somehow he seems to think that going around with a 5 o'clock shadow -- not exactly a "philosopher's beard" -- is, like, cool and chic.
The "crimson cross" Constantine saw in the sky was a Nova from one of the Crux Constellations.
There is a recurring cataclysm event which happens roughly every 12,000 years and all Scripture mentions it.
We are in the Holocene Epoch which began at the end of the last ice age, and on the Holocene calendar it is currently the year 12,021.
Reading many of these comments, you can understand
Why the Ruling classes gave
The masses these Religions; They make controlling their
Subjects so much easier.
Exactly
thank God someone with sense
@@jsmesrahming479 sense is developed. It is the responsibility of the initiated to teach man how to escape this bullshit
Yes!!!
Nope it is just the human psychology. Thinking that your human life will end is really sacry and the feeling of injustice too. Jesus and other big religious players were just good liars and manipulators.
It is said that Constantine didn't like having to visit all the most popular gods at their shrines to make offerings. It was easier for him to have just one inclusive god that he had to appease. He still made offerings to the Roman and Greek god Apollo, who was connected with many things, including the sun, and was one of the most popular pagan gods among the elite and educated in the Roman Empire. Remember that most of the Bible is written or translated in Greek.
Besides, many of his soldiers already believed in the god Mithras, and Zoroastrian mysteries from Persia are based on Mithraism. Mithraism was a rival to early Christianity. Mithraists were subject to persecution by the Christians, and soon died out. I wonder how many Mithra saints and martyrs there would be today if it had survived?
Who said the Mithraism or its follower's died out, there are always people serving old gods in public and in hiding. There are plenty of people today that still knowingly and some foolishly use pagan gods\idols during Christian days of worship. Current media, must are teaching everyone who wants to listen to "do as they wilt".
most of the bible is written in hebrew, the new testament is written in Greek, watch out what you write.
@Barbara Boix your statement is fraud. if someone wants to know Authenticness of the gospels there is enough information available.
@Barbara Boix If you know the truth, and by your statement is that new testament is fraud and a bunch of lies, give facts and logical opinions.
@@dimitri1798 Paul relaxed all the Laws and the Prophets saying what Yeshua said whom they gave the name Jesus. He is a Paulitician.
Thanks so much for your documentary! It's no wonder that Constantine was only baptized a Christian, on his 'death bed'! He certainly used Christianity to expand his empire!!! The Arch of Constantine is a stark apocalypse of the emperor's true stance... I've actually read of this theory before, and it makes perfect sense. It was his mother Helena, that went to the Holy Land looking for the Cross of Jesus, and built the Church of The Holy Sepulchre, where she believed she had found the actual cross. What a disgrace to think that Helena and Constantine are venerated as saints in the Greek Orthodox Church...
Helena was a big Christian that had a lot of troubles with his husband because of her faith but she remained strong on it and had a lot influence over her son Constantine.
Nothing is that simple.
Constantius II was also baptized on his deathbed, and no one is gonna try to claim he wasn't Christian.
@@histguy101the Roman Catholic churches in apostasy evident by the doctrine they teach and the fact that they violate the ten commandments. "You shall not create for yourself any graven image of anything in heaven in the Earth or in the sea, neither shall you bow down to them"
There's no such thing as a pope in the Bible and the Bible distinctly tells you how to pray and in Jesus's name yet they pray to Mary. Calling Mary the Queen of heaven and this is nowhere in the Bible to be found.
They assumed to understand the scriptures when they totally do not understand the scriptures and mislead many.
And then there's the fact that they cannot stay out of the media because they are constantly molesting children and raping their own nuns. They are turning people into atheists.
"By their fruits you shall know them"
Even St Peters basilica in Rome is said to be built on the pagan temple of mithras. I hope you have a video made on that for us to see.
Christianity conquered evil.
@@luke3807 why are you crying ?
@@luke3807 that's very true.
Nobody cares anymore if there was a stupid Mithra temple or not. The important thing is that the fullness of the Church of Jesus Christ was imposed. It is what counts and to this day everything else prevails will not go beyond being pure stories, mythologies, legends, etc ... Nobody thinks or gives full importance to speculations in fact.
@@leydaortiz8450 Yes it's true.
Also at the time of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge the German's in Constantine's Army, both Foederati and Roman Citizens, were predominately Arian Christians, not Orthodox, Latin, or Gnostic Christians. How much of a dream, a sign, and a miraculous victory for Constantine the Great for the back-bone of his power in the eyes of Germanic Romans from Upper and Lower Germania in the empire and the Foederati in Germania Magna and also the Upper and Lower Danube and the steppe? The Germans stretched from eastern Gaul to the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and the majority of tribes next to the Empire were Arian Christians. Not the majority of Germanic tribes, they were still pagan, but the ones right next to the Empire (which comprised the majority of the Foederati) were Arian Christians.
Yes, and the Arians suffered for their beliefs in a sense that they were sidelined by the Catholic church and the Orthodox. Constantine must have been aware of the early schism in calling for the Council of Nicea in order to patch things up between the competing "schools" of the Christians?
@@gordonbryce My whole point was that the Orthodox Christians were the vast majority of Christians in the Roman Empire in the 4th Century A.D. The most politically sensitive group were the Arian Christians in Alexandria and in the Germanic parts of the Roman Empire and of the Foederati. Latin Christendom was almost non-existent in the time of Constantine by comparison because the majority of Christians in the Western Empire were Arians.
@@morganhale3434 It may be the case Morgan that elements of knoghthood and chivalry had their roots among the Arian Goths and Vandals. The Franks were Catholic but I believe had a reasonable relationship with both the visi and ostrogoths. They all had a common Hunnic enemy.However, with the church scribes writing up Catholic belief and downgrading the Arian"heresey" we can't get to the truth of Arian influence on chivalrous values but I have a intuition it was high. Any references or leads?
@@morganhale3434 The spread of Arian Christianity among the Goths, Vandals, etc took place after the death of Constantine, and thus the rest is irrelevant. We don't know the religious makeup of Constantine's armies, let alone that of foreign allies that fought for him
@@histguy101 You commented on my second post, not the first one which was the main point after all. I don't need your mere sniping at a secondary point since what Constantine was after was the support of Christians in the Eastern Empire not amongst the Foederati since the Germans of the Empire who were Christian were very few in number. Your cognitive reading skills suck.
I'm not too impressed by those crosses carved in the stones at that fort near Hadrian's Wall.
So Constantine wasn't a Christian until he was about to die. He combined Christianity with Mithraism .I suggest u have to listen to surah Al maidah (the table spread). Here u can read the conversation of Jesus with Allah (God).
How can be someone God who will throw all non beleivers in hell fire
Surely he is an imagination of prophet
I am not Roman Catholic thank God. But born again and we try to live out Christ's standards in this modern life.
Did you mean Thank God or Thank Jesus?
Are you orthodox? If you are not then you are no better . Orthodoxy is the true church
So you think you are superior because you are Orthodox? Jesus was none of those titles as he was Jewish actually.
No I am a born again Evangelical Christian superior to nobody just saved by the grace of God alone.
JESUS HAS THE ETERNAL VICTORY, no one else
So has Mahadev. God of the gods
After reading some comments, whether you believe this documentary or not, the fact that veneration of the cross on Good Friday, kissing baby Jesus' idol on Christmas, worshipping angels and mother mary (in the bible, angel himself/herself said that worship no one other than God. Also when disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, the only divine entity in that prayer was God/Abba Father) and all the other things that Catholics do, is straight up idolatory and not what Bible asks us to do. Also, the biggest turn off for me was when Catholics invaded Mayans, incinerated them alive and destroyed the ancient knowledge obtained over the years without even looking what was in there (probably some haven't been destroyed and kept in Vatican's library, who knows). I don't know how many people this Catholic Church has killed whose cries have been lost in history. Point is, if you actually want to worship someone, worship Abba Father/Creator/God. No one other than that. Simply offering a prayer for you and your family and this world, and not dancing with this goofy things masqueraded as religion.
The Vatican has more secrets than most even know, research the Chronoviser , which explains how & why they'v edone what they've done throughout human history with man made religion!
Agreed, many things of the religion Catholic contradict the whole bible (the old and even the new testament that some believe to be the only part important).
Is a turn off to me too.
@@yoyohanaBR Jesus himself seemingly contradicts the Bible (well the old testament only). You have to look deeper for the truth
@@neuronneuron3645 He doesn't. He taught the Torah very well and even made the commandments more deeper. I agree I have to read the Bible for the truth more as ever, but I say the same to you :)
@@yoyohanaBR I'm saying that Jesus and the church are in the same boat in that they have both been accused of being in conflict with the scriptures (Jesus in his trial and the church in their persecution by Jewish elders in the apostolic age). Both can be exonerated by a deeper reading.
So we go looking for Jesus in the old testament (typological reading) and go looking for the church
This is done by looking at
- Eve, the mother of all living
- The ark of the covenant, keeping the covenant
- The queen mother
- Mary, mother of the saviour
- The woman in the war in heaven
All say something about the church, through the narrative of the bible
So we end up with the four marks of the church - one, holy, catholic and apostolic
Which is stated in the Nicene creed
On Mary -
The reason why catholics venerate Mary so highly is that she is the perfection and personification of the church. Both prophetically through scripture and graciously in heaven sending forth graces to all who ask.
She teaches us how we ought to treat each other as members of the church
Imagine all records/data of human have vanished today and the only remarkable evidence is Mt Rushmore. 1000 yrs from now , people in the future will think they were Gods of the people today
Christians weren't persecuted continuously between the 1st century and the 4th century (when Constantine ruled). The were long periods when Christians lived in peace, so it makes sense that there were Christian soldiers in the Roman army. Also, Constantine didn't convert the Roman Empire, he issued an order that Christians not be persecuted (Edict of Milan in 313). He himself didn't convert until 337 when he knew he was dying.
Also, there's no evidence that Mithras worshippers believed that Mithras died and was resurrected. It's disputed that they considered December 25 to be Mithras' birthday. It's possible that Constantine believed in both Christianity and Mithraism, because many Romans didn't consider religions to be mutually exclusive and he probably wasn't interested in the fine points of Christian theology. Syncretism (combining and assimilating different beliefs and gods) was widespread in the Roman Empire.
Thankyou so much for your expose on this,Simcha
The statues on Constantine's arch are not so mysterious. They are dacians, noblemen, called "pileati" from the latin "pileus" which means "hat". They are not frygian and were not worshipers of Mythra.
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I refer you to the South Park depiction of the history channel as a comparative and somewhat humorous reflection of our times.
@ANDY LUMEH © I bring you Gold. You, sir. Stop dictating god what he can be and what not. This exact mentality is what made people to kill him in the first place as they were prejudice and not ready to accept the fact that "god need not to ask permission from stupid humans of what form he can take and what rules are dictated from him by humans".
Please shed this mentality and accept the fact that we got pea sized brain to complete understand and realize what exactly god is.
How do they know that those cross symbols on those rocks had religious connotations? It’s very easy to make lines crossing one another. Maybe made by a bored soldier? Maybe it was an ancient game? It’s quite a stretch to see “cross or x symbols” on rocks and then proclaim that there were Christians in Constantine’s army.
We always choose to give our Gratitude and Appreciation for all that crosses our paths daily 💙💛💫🙏
This is very interesting… I just wonder when the Arch was built… Before or after his alleged transformation…
Built just after the battle and 10 years before Constantine presided over the council of Nicea. Not nearly enough time had passed between his conversion and the construction of the Arch for Christianity to take hold of Constantine and the Roman culture as a whole.
I can ideally say that Constantine is/was the first pope, In that he wanted to be 'like' god on earth.
Upon his death, his tomb has his body placed in the middle of twelve pillars as he believed himself to be a thirteenth apostle because he had converted more “Christians” than they had. It’s very interesting to learn about the cult of Mithras.
I'm not a papist myself, but don't start your shit. We Christians should be uniting not fighting each other. Don't you see we're under siege by all sides? Revelation is coming to fruition
As best as I can tell, Constantine created Catholicism, in which the entire empire was okay with it as he made it clear the people could keep their pagan gods and practices, they would just be given Christian names. One of the greatest evidences for this is the fact that true Christians were still persecuted and murdered throughout the empire long after the time of Constantine.
you're wrong
There was nothing like Catholicism at the time. It was all Christianity.
@@newsofourworld-p6i actually the term Catholicism was first used by St. Ignatius in 110 A.D. Whatever the case may be, between Christ rising from the dead, and Constantine in 330, the Christianity of Rome was greatly bastardized and mixed heavily with the paganism of Rome, to where most of the foundation was there for Constantine to utilize and merge with the state, as history records he did. And thus the beginning of popery.
@@drjanitor3747 yeah I've read the official narrative of the Catholic church, but in studying actual history, I can't find any legitimate popes prior to Constantine. And I've heard as much from historical scholars as well.
@@drjanitor3747 I don't believe the historical scholars were protestant, nor did I care, nor did I enquire, neither did I take note of the particular historians that have said as much. I came to the "Constantine officially starting Catholicism" on my own, by my own studies of history, I have no bias in the area. I simply noticed the huge discrepancy between the narrative of the catholic church, and what we actually know from historical texts and sources. In regards to the scholars that have voiced the same theory, none of them seemed to be religious. If we are going to look at history, to learn from it, we must look at it without bias.
Absolutely fascinating. Among Orthodox churches, Constantine is honored in differing degrees. I am most curious about the impact of his mother, Helen. I am also very curious about the murder mystery involving Constantine's son (Crispus) and Constantine's second wife. Any information on them?
Very interesting but I'm sure you know that while Mithras' birth was celebrated on December 25th. Saturnalia was not. It was celebrated on December 17 and lasted 3 days and was later extended to 7 days. Why didn't you correct that other historian? If that simple, verifiable information is miss represented in your special, what else is in error? Here's another. Constantine never called Istanbul Constantinople. He called it New Rome. The Ottoman called it Constantinople I believe.
The Ottomans called Istanbul or the big city.
Enemies upon Enemies of Our Lord, it will never end until he come for the Second, which is near,it truly the reign of Anti Christ.
No one will come again as god in this world all those are lies jesus never existed they were just imaginary stories of god
@@GuilhermeSilva-lt6rw Thor is demigod not Almighty God....
@Suzanne Pierson bullshit the white God Jezus was created by the Roman to control their kingdom in those days
I always heard his mother was a Christian and converted him
not true
That's Saint Augustine
It’s so amazing watching these article history , while watching the video with a very good background sounds ,, it’s so thrilled
Daniel 7:9
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the HAIR of his HEAD like the PURE WOOL: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
You do not report anything, .. you misinform and at the same time you remain in the dark
@@estoico3619 you addressing me? If so, you are a 🤡
It’s all BS
Why do you 'christians' always quote the OLD testament which is in fact the Torah?
@@djollyrodjeur why do 'Fools' always assume? I'm an Israelite; NOT a 'greasecan'.
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Christinity is IMPORTED religion to the Caribbean...IT MOST BE DEPORTED!! sooner the Better.....
@@daggerin4life726 Why should you care ,it's not you are from the Caribbean unlike me .
Constantin called it Nova Roma (New Rome) rather than Constantinople, and it had always had this official name - New Rome, until its fall by the hands of the turks
Constantinopel didnt Fall at all. It became the New Islamic Rome in 1453AD. The Ottomans were mostly Converted Jews,Orthodoxs Christians in to Islam. Like the Iconeclasts Anatolian Orthodoxs Christians,Armenians who had more respect for The Eastern Cults then the Official one pushed by the State religion.
********PROOF: All “”religions”” are LIES !! Attention! Only Jesus is the truth and the only WAY !!********
All religions presented themselves as FRAUD and LIES when they denied Jesus his sacrifice!
God is holy and therefore inevitably always absolutely RIGHTEOUS! So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he NEVER does wrong !! So FACT is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and MERCIFUL !! Who is YHWH equal? EXACTLY NO ONE !!
JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A PURE LIFE FOR A LIFE !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us FAIR and RIGHT !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of EVERYTHING and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (BLOOD) !! God bless you
@@koksalceylan9032 what bullshit. Of course it fell. And it was pillaged for days.
@@trantorcapitalofthegalacti3173 technically it was no longer Roman after the Latin empire. After that it was just a standard medieval monarchy
@@mariyabiswas3391 he could call himself gidzilla if he wanted to but he was no emperor. He was sultan of a Muslim state.
Constantine did not found the Christian Church. Jesus Christ did and left his teachings to the 12 Apostles, not the Bible yet. The Bible was written a little more than 3 centuries after Christ’s death.
Constantine blended much of the existing Paganism with different versions of Christianity to placate the masses. This eventually became the western or gentile version of Christianity, with a mere inkling of the knowledge on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth(sp?) .
Roman and Jewish scholars collaborated to write the Bible
Nope, wrong, The church baptizes all nations and their traditions to the Trinity. Christianity cannot be compatible with other religions. Your argument falls flat.
It is for this reason some of us do not believe in the Romanized form of Christianity.