And he decides to have a meeting and he convenes this meeting where he calls all Christians to this meeting
where they're going to gather together and they're going to figure out
how are we going to make Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire.
What they did is they invited all these bishops and basically said if you don't follow
what we're putting together here then you know you're cast out and basically called a heretic.
When a government leader sets up a meeting and says hey I want to make Christianity the religion
by law of all of Rome people are gonna have to convert to Christianity they're gonna have to be
Christians we're gonna legislate Christianity and I want you guys to help me set that up
here's what you need to understand no true Christians are going to show up to that meeting
because you know what true Christians believe they believe that you can't legislate Christianity.
There was a group of Baptists, Baptistic people I'll say the Anabaptists the Paulicians the
Waldensians the Albigensians who during that first meeting of churches at Nicaea they had
taken the position that we churches should not sacrifice their autonomy they should not be
organizing themselves into a hierarchy organizing themselves into a network an association
or convention as we would call them today but rather we should continue under the headship
of Christ for each church and the Holy Spirit administration of each church and that will be
that will be our unity and leave the work of the ministry and the ministry work mission work
up in up to the spirit of God as he leads so when Constantine the Great had this meeting to try to
bring Christianity into the Roman Empire no true believers showed up to that meeting but you know
who did show up who did show up was that group that was already from the time of Paul corrupting
the word of God bringing in false doctrine bringing in false belief system they showed up
and they set up what they referred to as the Roman Universal Church