Page 58 - Emperor Constantine Enforcer of the Trinity Doctrine

The Secret Archives of the Vatican written by Maria Ambrosini and Mary Willis 1996 page 36 states: “Constantine was an army brat; he had grown up knowing the Mithraic (Sun god) religion, harsh and pure as the code of military justice. We are not certain how much of a Christian he was; he was baptized only on his deathbed, and he once referred to himself as “a bishop of those outside the Church” the bishop of unbelievers?” (In other words the bishop of Pagans)
The Roman Cult of Mithras by Manfred Clauss 2001 page 13 “At that time there gained at all levels of society a belief in the power of fate, a belief whose visible symptom was astrology. It became fashionable to have one’s horoscope cast and to enquire what the stars might declare to be the most propitious moment for undertakings great and small. The Emperor Augustus had his horoscope published, and issued coins that bore his zodiacal sign, Capricorn. Constantine commissioned astrologers to work out the most favorable juncture for the foundation of his new capital, Constantinople.”
The rise of Christianity 1985, Dr. W. Frend, p. 140-141 informs us that Emperor Constantine dictates even helped to shape the Trinity doctrine of the Council of Nicene in 325 AD: “It was at this stage that Constantine made his momentous suggestion. Might not the relationship of the Son to the Father be expressed by the term homoousious [of the same substance]...It was thus a loaded word as well as being unscriptural. Why Constantine put it forward we do not know. [It agreed with his pagan worship] The possibility is that once again he was prompted by Hosius, and may have been using it as a translation of the traditional view held in the West, that the Trinity was composed of Three Persons in one substance, without inquiring further into the meaning of these terms. The Emperor had spoken, and no one dared touch the creed during his lifetime. The Great majority of the Eastern bishops found themselves in a false position.” [Many should be shocked that a pagan forced the Trinity upon humanity.]
A Dictionary of Christian Theology by: A. Richardson 1969 pages 345-350. Under: The History of the Doctrine of the Trinity. “Pluralist thinkers, on the other hand maintained the full co-presence of two [later three] distinct entities [Gods] within the Godhead...Their concern was to reconcile [mix] Christianity and [Pagan Greek] Hellenism and their philosophical background owed much to Middle and Neoplatonism. Two false trails which they followed had precedents in [Pagan] Greek philosophy;”
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition, pages 365-366. “Trine immersion...[was] invented to explain an existing custom, which the [Catholic] church had adopted from its pagan medium. For lustrations were normally threefold. Ovid...Persius...and Horace... similarly speak of trine lustrations; and on the last mentioned passage the scholiast Acro remarks, “He uses the words thrice purely, because people in expiating their sins plunge themselves thrice.” Such examples of ancient usage encounters us everywhere in (Pagan) Greek and Latin antiquity”.
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