{"id":16281,"date":"2026-09-16T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16281"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:42:06","slug":"constantine-chapter-4-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16281\/constantine-chapter-4-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantine Chapter 4, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While reading chapter 4 on Constantine, I kept asking myself what difference did it make if Constantine was a Christian or not?\u00a0 Why have scholars put so much time in trying to answer that question?\u00a0 To put it in a modern perspective, I guess some people might consider Donald Trump a Christian.\u00a0 It really doesn\u2019t matter if he is or not.\u00a0 He is worldly politicians that use people and circumstances for his personal gain and status. \u00a0\u00a0If he is perceived as being Christian then it helps him all the more to succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The last paragraph of chapter 4 helped sum it up for me:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere is abundant historical and archaeological evidence related to Constantine\u2019s character and deeds; historians and archaeologists have produced a veritable mountain of information on him.\u00a0 Our purpose has only been to show that the historical evidence demonstrates that (1) Constantine remained a pagan at heart throughout his life and (2) Constantine reshaped the religion of the Apostates into a new form of paganism, which became known as Christianity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Based on the historical evidence that you pointed out, \u201cConstantine remained a pagan at heart\u201d.\u00a0 Whether he was perceived as being a Christian or not did not change the course of history.\u00a0 He was used by God, as you said, to\u00a0\u201creshape the religion of the Apostates into a new form of paganism, which became known as Christianity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These are a few thoughts that came while reading chapter 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for giving us the historical facts on the life of Constantine and organizing them in a manner that can be understood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, While reading chapter 4 on Constantine, I kept asking myself what difference did it make if Constantine was a Christian or not?\u00a0 Why have scholars put so much time in trying to answer that question?\u00a0 To put it in a modern perspective, I guess some people might consider Donald Trump a Christian.\u00a0 It really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16288,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}