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Constantines Cross Constantine was the Roman emperor who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325C.E. and influenced it to adopt the unscriptural doctrine that Christ was God. He did this to solidify his empire of pagans and apostate Christians. Of him The New Encyclopdia Britannica says: 'On the eve of Constantine's victory over Maxentius in 312, he saw a vision of the 'heavenly sign' of the cross, which he believed to be a divine pledge of his triumph.'' It also says that thereafter Constantine promoted the veneration of the cross. |
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The New Catholic Encyclopedia says: ''The representation of Christs redemptive death on Golgotha does not occur in the symbolic art of the first Christian centuries. The early Christians, influenced by the Old Testament prohibition of graven images, were reluctant to depict even the instrument of the Lords [death]. ... The cross comes to be represented in the time of Constantine.'' that my friend is the history about the cross. |
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