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forms of monotheism were forbidden. He had his troops sprinkled in baptism, proclaiming them
to be Christians, although spiritually they weren’t. Constantine made Christianity the official
religion of Rome. A document discovered in the eighth century, called the ‘Donation of
Constantine’ was said to have conferred some of his secular power upon the Pope, and it was
used by the Church to gain some authority in the government, but it was later proved to be a
forgery.
In 325, he set up the Council of Nicaea, and ruled it as the ‘Summus Pontifex’ (which is the
official title of the Pope). He considered himself to be the head of the Church, although the
Bishop of Rome was the recognized head, later to be known as the Pope (Italian for ‘father’).
Constantine ordered all writings that challenged Church teaching to be gathered up and
destroyed, and in 331 he commissioned a new Bible. In 303, pagan emperor Diocletian had
already destroyed most of the Christian writings around Rome, so of all the manuscripts of the
New Testament available, not one had been produced before the fourth century, which made it
easy for the Church to alter the Scriptures to fit the point of view they wanted to convey.
Although all Romans were baptized into the Christian faith, there were those who wanted to
remain loyal to the Babylonian mysteries, and sought to retain some aspects of their religion in
the new Christian religion. Thus, paganism was allowed to infiltrate the Church. Although
Constantine claimed to have converted to Christianity, he secretly worshipped the Sun God. He
made Sunday a day of rest, not because it was supposed to be the Lord’s day, but being that it
was the first day of the week, it was to be a tribute to the Sun God.
St. Peter was said to be the first Bishop (or Pope) of the Church, and each Pope is said to be
his successor. The rationale being that Jesus said to Peter (originally known as Simeon, or
Simon, Jesus called him Cephas, or ‘rock,’ and the name Peter comes from the Latin ‘petrus,’
which means ‘rock’): “That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church...” This is a
tradition that is historically inaccurate, because Peter never professed that distinction. There is no
evidence that the Apostle Peter had ever been in Rome, at any time. In that verse, in the original
Greek, ‘Peter’ is translated from ‘petros’ (Strong’s #4074, a small rock) and ‘rock’ is translated
from ‘petra’ (Strong’s # 4073, a mass of rock). What this means is that Jesus is the rock, the
foundation of the Church, while Peter was just going to help build it.
However, secular history explains that there was a “Simon Peter” in Rome during the first
century. The pagan gods of the Babylonians and Greeks were identified by the name Peter (or
Patres). The Romans referred to Neptune, Saturn, Mars, and Liber, as ‘gods’ of the Peter-rank.
Going back as far as Nimrod, Deuteronomy 23:4 says that Balaam of Pethor was a sacred high
place where there was an oracle temple. ‘Pethor’ meant “place of interpretation,” and ‘Balaam’
was the chief Pantora (Peter) and successor to Nimrod. The Hebrew Lexicon indicates that the
consonantal word P-T-R or Peter means “to interpret.” Thus, Simon Magus, who had become the
interpreter of the Babylonian Mysteries, became known as Simon Peter. The Vaticano Illustrato
II says that the Babylonian statue of Jupiter was renamed ‘Peter.’
Eusebius (264-340), the Bishop of Caesarea, a Church historian (who was imprisoned by the
Romans as they searched for Bibles to destroy them), was Constantine’s chief religious advisor.
He studied at Origen’s (184-254) school of Religion and Philosophy in Alexandria, where many
gnostic scholars lived and studied. The school became a center for ‘Christian’ learning and
culture. Eusebius and his scribes were instructed by Constantine to prepare fifty Bibles for the
churches in Constantinople (Byzantium, or the ‘new Rome’).
Eusebius wasn’t a true Christian, because he believed Jesus to be a lesser god, and was
guided by that fact when he produced his version of the Scriptures. For instance, he eliminated