Constantine's Relationship To Christianity

Constantine was the new emperor after the death of his father. When he went to battle against Maxentius, he saw a vision and “took the God of Christians.”
When Constantius I died, his son, Constantine became the Roman Emperor. Christianity Today says, “In the spring of 311, with 40,000 soldiers behind him, Constantine rode toward Rome to confront an enemy whose numbers were four times his own.” Christianity Today also says that Maxentius had put his faith in pagan oracles. On the other hand, they describe what happened to Constantine by saying, “Constantine saw a vision in the afternoon sky: a bright cross with the words by this sign conquer.” As the story goes, Christ himself told Constantine in a dream to take the cross into battle as his standard. Though accounts vary, Constantine apparently believed the omen to be a word from God.1
Dr. Wallace said, that Constantine “Interpreted this as an omen, he put his trust in the God of the Christians and had the Greek letter XP and a cross monogrammed on the shields of his soldiers.”2 Constantine gave up his pagan beliefs for a form of Christianity. It appears that he was more interested in the help of the Christian God than an act of faith. This is a typical reaction that many people take concerning religion. They mistakenly believe that by taking religion, whether by joining a church or some
Those churches that joined with his universal or state church became a compromising church that adopted paganism into their worship. Many of the rituals used in the Roman Catholic Church can be traced through history all the way back to Nimrod. Satan found a door to sneak into the church. Jude warned of this in Jude 1:4. He said, “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord