CHURCH D church was an independent collection of local churches,working together whenever possible but not dominated by central authourity until A.D312 when d devil stop persecuting christians knowing dat if u cant beat ur enemy u rather u join dem and then confuse and finally change dem dis is how d church was divided.Roman history tells us that Constantine(first christian roman emperor) saw a vision of a fiery cross in d sky and heard a voice saying in this sign conquer.Constantine believe this message from God that if he embrace d christian religion,he would be able to conquer enemies.He accepted d christian faith and declared himself to be defender and protector of christian faith. He issued an edict of favorson d christian toleration for christianity and showered many favors on d christian church e.g govt provided money for the operation of d church,and many pagan temple were taken over by christians.One commendable act was to order d production of fifty copies of d bible.To please d emperor,these leaders adopted customs that were paralled to pagan practices.One compromise lead to another, and what seemed at d start to be a great blessing ended up a great curse for d church.D influence of paganism on d church increased over d years step by step.D church began to shroud itself in mystery and ritualism dat had a strong resemblance to babylonian mysticism.Example d chaldean tau,which d elevation of a large T on d end of a pole was changed to d sign of d cross.D rosary of pagan origin was introduced (not seen in d bible).Celibacy of priests and nuns,which has no scriptural verification,but finds a counterpart in d vestal virgins of paganism was conceived. A.D 300~prayers for d dead A.D 300~making sign of d cross A.D 375~worship of saints and angels A.D 395~mass first instituted A.D 439~worship of mary begun A.D 500~priest began dressing differently than laymen A.D 526~extreme unction A.D 593~doctrine of purgatory introduced A.D 600~worship services conducted in latin A.D 600~prayers directed to mary Am not writing against a particular denomination but am trying to tell u how d church of three centuries that ws producing an evangelistic consecrated ,fervent church began to change when christianity was made state religion.try to think if constatine had not change or add some few tins in our doctrine would there be disunity in d church.we should know that we are serving one God with a goal to obey his commandment and to convert as many as possible in other for us to meet in heaven.WE should know dat d world(govt, media every thing around u) hate us and would try to killed d word CHRISTIANS ~CHRIST LIKE because dey killed christ.
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