Wednesday, 2 March 2016

2. ENTANGLEMENT from the Age of Toletarion

Toleration comes when a person or people indulge on what is agreed as a whole. The time of Edict of Milan was the most turning point of early Christianity whereby the emperor who audaciously claimed to be Christian did the edict of toleration of Christian faith. It was the age of Christian Roman Empire shaped the wholeness of faith. The council called Nicaea held by Emperor Constantine became the basis of the Trinitarian faith.

            It seems to me and have learned that this was the time where people were taking advantage the Christianity and sacrilege became more grown. I have seen that this was the time when the Christian religion was used for political privilege. This was the sad thing we know in the history. The Emperor became the head of Christianity now in the expression of the prestigious empire and cathedrals, and declaring that the Rome was the most holy city in the entire Europe or in the world.

            Today I can see many traditional inflicted from the Roman kind of leading. People uses powers to be best in the church sand seems more holy that those who are none. Hypocrisy is expressed in the heart of the institutional kind of church, as much as the emperor did in 4th century AD. Those who are involving in the political game buy the integrity of the church for their fame. How sad it is when we are not think clearly and not aware what is the entanglement between our modern days Christianity from the time of toleration in 4th century AD.


            As a Christian, I see the most important factors in this time especially the formulation of the deity and person of Christ and the trinity. The great mind was used by God to reveal the truth of God. However, the misleading kind of leadership was not coherent to the teaching and to the formulation of the doctrine of Christ and Trinity. I see the modern institutional churches as a whole  are more concern on the buildings and anything rather than the person. Pride for prestige is what drives humanity to do so, and this not new though because it was already happened in 4th century AD. 

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