Constantinople was Never Meant to be the Center of the Church - neither is Babylon nor Rome

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Jun 9, 2017 at 11:40

Ahhh, therein lays the conundrum; does the rebellious form of faux Christianity that emerged even as John wrote the Patmos visions completely erase the underlying truth of what following Jesus Christ requires as the ages of antiquity record the Devil's false message of how bad being Christian is to the world? If being an historian compels to look patronizingly at the real message of the Gospel and comes to a conclusion something must be wrong with Christianity, is it the Jesus' message; or do we look at Who Jesus really is and realize instead that the world will always be delusional and the only escape is to recognize that what Jesus started will historically be contradicted by an anti-messenger to defame followers of the truth of Christ. To that point, the true followers who know the real message that is proclaimed through the Gospel have always been in the minority, even in modern America.

To start with the statement that "(m)ost Byzantine Christians were devout believers in "what Jesus taught"" is not necessarily true (notice above, a minority presence of true believers); for if they, along with the split off "western Christianesque" group of believers were all that into the devotions of belief as many try to assert, then the 'universal' church would have remained intact and not followed the deceptions that brokered the divisiveness that remains to this day. The Muslims were only able to do what they did because the pervasive faithlessness of that time made most of the Christian testimony of the times powerless to stop the Islamic tide, long before there was a Mohammed.

Fast forward to the Spanish invasion (indeed, most of the colonization of the western hemisphere was somehow connected to the subverted 'western Romanization' of world culture) was for reasons of empire, not a manifestation of faith to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth. In that second part of the Gospel message we find the true message was there all along, but never promoted by a world philosophical antithesis against the Gospel. Only when the American government was formed with its influences of free religious expression did the Gospel message get the breathing room to spread to the ends of the earth, in spite of all the denominational obstacles found in world institutional religious organizations. In a final observance, knowable evidence in the mortal realm does not reveal all that much when compared with a knowledge that not all that the world sees is all that is consciously known.

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