Originally Posted by davidmartin

you cannot have the ruler of a kingdom especially not the Roman empire and especially not Constantine setting up Christ's kingdom on earth, which is a spiritual kingdom, not of this earth.
The trap was laid and set. Constantine became emperor on a platform to hold together the failing Roman empire via the new religion. The bishops got their hands on power and could enforce their own theology, well, by force.
kjw probably would have been a Montanist in those days! (me too, maybe)
apparently the faith was seriously dumbed down once it became state religion. I read of soldiers being baptised with a bucket and mop, now your a Christian, hail ceasor.
I actually think people went totally crazy in those days, that slow motion collapse of the empire literally drove people insane