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The Church of our Fathers by R. H. Bainton, 1950, page 63. “...The other great achievement of the (Catholic) emperor Justinian was the gathering up and sorting out of the laws of the Roman Empire [ca 500 AD] into one system called The Code of Justinian. Parts of this law had to do with the Christian religion and the Church. The code says that any who refuse to believe in the Trinity and any who repeat baptism shall be put to death...The law by which they [the Donatists, Arians and Jesus Name people] were punished was aimed not at their conduct but at their belief. Inasmuch as they considered themselves to be the only true Church, they would not accept the [Trinitarian] baptism of those who had been baptized by the Catholics and later joined the Donatists. In such instances baptism was repeated. [In the Name of Jesus] The law of the Roman Empire made this the offence, and the same law centuries after was used against the Baptist.” [Or the Anabaptist and Jesus Name people.]
Emperor Theodosius, The Theodosian Laws, AD 380: “We shall believe in the single Deity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, under the concept of equal majesty [or co-equal Persons] and of the Holy Trinity.
We command that those persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of Catholic Christians. The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment."
The story of Civilization: Part 3 Caesar and Christ a History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to AD 325, by Will Durant, 1944, page 655, informs us that: “In his Gallic court he (Constantine) had surrounded himself with pagan scholars and philosophers. After his (so-called) conversion he seldom conformed to the ceremonial requirements of Christian worship. His letters to (Catholic) Christian bishops make it clear that he cared little for theological differences that agitated Christendom- though he was willing to suppress dissent in the interests of imperial unity. Through-out his reign he treated his bishops as his political aids; he summoned them, presided over their councils, and agreed to enforce whatever opinion their majority should formulate. A real believer would have been a Christian first and a statesman afterward; with Constantine it was reverse. Christianity was to him a means, not an end.”
Dr. Bullinger, The Companion Bible, appx. 162, states: "crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian Sun-god...It should be stated that Constantine was a Sun-god worshipper...The evidence is thus complete, that the Lord was put to death upon and upright stake, and not on two pieces of timber placed at any angle."
The People that History Forgot written by Professor and Archaeologist Ernest L. Martin, 1993, pages 159 and 161-162 states: “Indeed, there was nothing inferior about these eastern [Pagan Syro-Pheoenician, Hittite, Egyptian, Persian and Babylonian] religions and philosophical beliefs nor the people who brought them to the west. (Rome) They were the very teachings that Constantine and his followers adopted. True, they changed their names and the doctrines which they advocated into names that were
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