{"id":1368,"date":"2009-07-13T22:54:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2009-07-13T22:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:54:17","slug":"constantine-and-theodosius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Constantine and Theodosius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAlthough Theodosius made the church a state religion (A.D.380), Constantine&rsquo;s<br \/>\nChristian era lacked a pious pursue of the Word of God. Instead, it was<br \/>\nmore of a military cause, legal sponsorships and relics, which no doubt<br \/>\ncould easily result in a state religion around 50-60 years later, when<br \/>\ndefense of faith began to fall behind.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNonetheless, this is not to discredit Constantine&rsquo;s effort in his<br \/>\nEdict of Milan in 313. Which allowed many Christians to come out of hiding. A<br \/>\nBrave move by a Christian king.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is good to support Christianity, but it is better to hear God&rsquo;s word and do them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Theodosius made the church a state religion (A.D.380), Constantine&rsquo;s Christian era lacked a pious pursue of the Word of God. Instead, it was more of a military cause, legal sponsorships and relics, which no doubt could easily result in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}