Posted on 11/12/2006 10:29:21 PM PST by blam
LOL, he does not appear to be a fan of the Jews does he? Well he lifted some restrictions placed on Jews and did not persecute them. Certainly he had the power to wipe them off the face of the earth had he wanted to. The Edict of Milan allowed Jews religious freedom too.
I am glad we had this conservation, I love history and was a little weak on Constantine and did not realize just what a great Emperor he was. He deserves the title "The Great" just on military victories alone, he gets it for founding the Eastern Roman Empire and opening the door for a Christan Rome, but he was also a Roman General of the first Rank.
A better way to put it is that God is natural, with all of nature being a product of His divine providence, including those phenomena we are inclined (arbitrarily) to call "miracles," or the "supernatural."
Much better, well said.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
It's like he was divinely inspired to do something so unusual.
I guess the losers didn't get to record what they thought- as usual.
That's not the Christian view of God. But maybe you know that already.
Yep, that's the one!
Let's not forget though, that God is nature . . .
A better way to put it is that God is natural, with all of nature being a product of His divine providence, including those phenomena we are inclined (arbitrarily) to call "miracles," or the "supernatural."
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fundamental to human thinking is cause and effect.
God is the uncaused first cause. God is the only uncreated being. He is the creator of all.
God works in mysterious ways, as they say.
The event was shown as an impact on "The Battle For Rome" (I think that
was the title) that played last night on Discovery Channel.
The narrator admitted there is uncertainty as to exactly what was witnessed.
The show was a pretty decent historical reenactment, but the fellow
looked like a blood relative to Monty Python's Eric Idle.
Got to admit, the period between the end of the Peloponnesian War and the invention of moveable type is kind of blurry for me.
LOL. That show is what promped me to repost this old article.
For me as well. Fortunately, we have search engines...
i.e. a few minutes ago I had no knowledge about that period ;-)
I seem to remember having read somewhere that Constantine did convert to Christianity, but it was at the very end of his life....practically on his death bed.
Interesting. Mithras was another popular religion. It's only problem was that it excluded women, so it did not have the popularity and resilience like Christianity.
If it wasn't t shaped than where would they have tacked the sign on it?
Wait a minute. I think we have a problem w/ communication here. When I say that God is nature, I mean he is the beginning and the end of all things, the sum total of all that exists. I mean that He rules the land, the oceans, the sky, and all that is above and below us, the creator and master of all that live, and all that will ever be. Is this out of sync w/ what you believe to be Judeo/Christian thinking? I'm curious as to what you consider to be nature, that God is not a part of.
Yes, I agree. Well said. BTW, love your screen name.
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