Why do you think that the Emperor Constantine suddenly felt the urge to bring Christianity in as the basis for the State’s Religion of the Roman Empire, choosing to welcome all the Pagan religions to join, bringing with them their specific traditions and rituals?  What was his impetus for such a bold move, when the Emperors before him had lit the Roman Road with candles fed by the burning flesh of believers in Christ?  He was a follower of many gods but the main one was sol invictus, the Sun god.  It was only after pursuing a method by which he may defeat his enemy’s and achieve total victory was he made privy to the sign of the Cross.  After his mandate, he worshiped the one god, but many believe he felt that this was still the sun god.  It was only later after the state moves and winning many violent victories that he began to study the Word of God and realize the identity of Jesus.  Is it possible that satan acting in his role as the sun god led Constantine to take up the Cross of Christ, so that his minions could effectively join the church?  Each of us will have to make a decision for ourselves on that one.  However, I do think it weighty that until that point evangelists, pastors, disciples had been treated as respected servants of Christ and they suddenly became titled heads of state, welcome at the Emperor’s table with titles and fat purses authorized by Constantine.  Did satan pull the greatest deception upon the Church in the 3rd Century?  Did he elevate the clergy to a state of being appointed positions between man and God, creating no need for the Holy Spirit?  Is this the moment that destroyed the purity of the Church as the “set apart” bride of Christ, allowing in Pagan philosophies, Gnosticism and worship of counselors rather than God’s Spirit?

There is no way to look upon the Vatican’s violence and history of non Christian behavior over the millennia without discussing these events.  What did we exchange at the Counsel of Nicea, perhaps the truth for a lie?  Did we lose the power of the Church because we allowed satan to fool us into believing in the purity and power of man rather than the ultimate power of Salvation/Sanctification only found through God’s Holy Spirit?  Well to ask these questions it will cause conflict, but to not ask them will potentially leave the Church in its present neutered state.  I want the Power of God, to be a disciple, heal the blind and set captives free.  I don’t want the bending reed of some willow of italia, that enriches no one but the Catholic Business Operations.  I am certain passions will fly as is normal with questions of this magnitude, but I ask them in peace and a desire to return the Power of God to Christians in the Church Body of Christ.  I wish that I were wrong, but this is the only plausible explanation for our loss of authority.  If you have another please share your thoughts, by the way anger is not a thought it is an emotion.  So, please exercise some self-control, which you should have as a indwelling of the Holy Spirit.  Oh, you don’t have self-control, well then maybe this idea is closer to the truth than you would allow?

I pray all the blessings of God upon all his children.  I pray that those who do not know Him would be filled with such a compelling by the Holy Spirit that they are forced to seek Him out.  I pray that those who have just been calling themselves Christians wake up in time to find that they never knew Christ, nor He them.  For this is the greatest tragedy that could befall men, either to be sent to Hell because they failed to make a decision based upon the authority of the Gospel or that they went to hell having believed themselves saved because of saying a simple prayer that never introduced them to Christ.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.