In this episode we continue our discussion with Kegan Chandler, author of the recently published book Constantine and the Divine Mind, the Imperial Quest for Primitive Monotheism.

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We left off our last episode with Mr. Chandler describing how Constantine was associated with events that led to the important Church Council of Nicea in AD 325. Now we re-join the conversation with Mr. Chandler about to describe the significance of the Greek word homousias, which means something like “same substance” or “same essence”. Christians theologians to this very day describe Jesus as being the “same essence” with God the Father.

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However, the idea does not come from the Bible. So where does it come from? 

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Was Constantine an agent of God, or a representative of Jesus the Messiah? Or, was Constantine and his ideas about homousias, that the Father God and Jesus were the same substance, a proclamation of different Christ, a replacement Christ, an anti-Christ?

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Resource links for this episode:

Constantine and the Divine Mind, the Imperial Quest for Primitive Monotheism

https://wipfandstock.com/constantine-and-the-divine-mind.html

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“Revisiting Homoousios: Origins, Intentions, and Aftermath” (Kegan Chandler Presentation)

https://burieddeepblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/presentation-revisiting-homoousios-origins-intentions-and-aftermath/

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The Corpus Hermeticum, Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men

http://gnosis.org/library/hermes1.html

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Hermeticsim

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Hermeticism

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Lanctantius (advisor to Constantine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactantius