STRUCTURAL DOGMA of Constantine's Church

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This is a fun one, and when you see it and understand you will just say, well "Duh."

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At the time of Roman Emperor Constantine the King of the Persian Empire (next door to Roman Empire) was Shapur II; also known as Shapur the Great.

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As mentioned in the prior Writing (Constantine) The Religion of the Persian Empire was Zoroastrianism. Constantine looked at how powerful that religion was in the Persian Empire and so, the Jesus circumstances provided an easy way for Constantine to copy much of the Structural Dogma from Zoroastrianism and use it as he developed his new Christian Church of Constantine.

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Here are some of the attributes  that Constantine copied.

 

Zoroastrianism was the first Monotheistic Religion (one God).  This God (Ahura Mazda)  lived in a heaven and was all good and all powerful.  There was an antigod (devil) in a hell that was responsible for all bad.  This sets up the duality of good and evil.  This Zoroastrian God had a Prophet on earth named Zarathushtra who prophesized that he would return in the future as a Savior born to a virgin mother and that he would place a "Sign in the night sky" when he was born again.  In Zoroastrianism there is a final judgement where you will go to a heaven or a hell.  They had temples for worship and 3 ranks of Priest or Bishops. 

 

Zorastrianism also had a Holy Book called the "Avesta" which the King Shapur II was ardently focused on compiling and completing as the only official scripture of the religion.

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So it was these structural attributes that Emperor Constantine borrowed and copied from Zoroastrianism, and instituted into his Christian Church.  Does it sound familiar? Jesus didn't set this church up... Emperor Constantine did and he did it for Power and Control... not for Jesus or a God.

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