FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
sign of God” on their shields prior to going into battle.Constantine felt that Christ was a manifestation of the Sun God, Sol, or
Apollo, even though Christians didn’t know it. The emblem he used,
was not the cross he allegedly seen, but the symbol, known as the
labarum, which was the first two Greek letters of the word ‘Christos,’
Chi and Rho which had been discovered as part of an inscription
found on a Pompeii tomb 250 years earlier.Regardless of what did happen, he won the battle, and took over the
government of Rome. The next year, in 313, he issued the Edict of
Milan (also known as the Edict of Toleration), which bestowed
religious freedom, in order to show tolerance towards Christianity, and
all other forms of monotheism were forbidden. He had his troops
sprinkled in baptism, proclaiming them to be Christians, although
spiritually they weren’t. Constantine made Christianity the official
religion of Rome. A document discovered in the eighth century, called
the ‘Donation of Constantine’ was said to have conferred some of his
secular power upon the Pope, and it was used by the Church to gain
some authority in the government, but it was later proved to be a
forgery.In 325, he set up the Council of Nicaea, and ruled it as the ‘Summus
Pontifex’ (which is the official title of the Pope). He considered himself
to be the head of the Church, although the Bishop of Rome was the
recognized head, later to be known as the Pope (Italian for ‘father’).
Constantine ordered all writings that challenged Church teaching to be
gathered up and destroyed, and in 331 he commissioned a new Bible.
In 303, pagan emperor Diocletian had already destroyed most of the
Christian writings around Rome, so of all the manuscripts of the New
Testament available, not one had been produced before the fourth
century, which made it easy for the Church to alter the Scriptures to fit
the point of view they wanted to convey.Although all Romans were baptized into the Christian faith, there were
those who wanted to remain loyal to the Babylonian mysteries, and
sought to retain some aspects of their religion in the new Christian
religion. Thus, paganism was allowed to infiltrate the Church. Although
Constantine claimed to have converted to Christianity, he secretly
worshipped the Sun God. He made Sunday a day of rest, not because