It's an Ecumenical Matter!

It is recorded that Constantine the Great: Constantine I or Saint Constantine, who was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. Of course that is: if you ignore the possibility that Philip The Arab, Emperor from 244 until 249 is more likely to have been the first Roman “Emperor Convert”. But his participation is now shrouded in mystery since the records of this are sketchy. I'm not surprised: Philip “The Arab”?

Anyway my theory is that over time the people in power in Rome usurped Christianity and turned it into Roman Catholicism and today they teach that Catholicism is the “One, Holy, Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church .

Apostolic means they tell us that the church traces it's origins back to the Apostles: not to Christ.

It gets worse when you really examine the whole “Centre Piece” of Catholic belief: the Eucharist. The teaching that bread and wine are transformed by the words of a Priest into the Body and Blood of Christ.

The earliest known use of the term "transubstantiation" to describe the change from bread and wine to the body and blood of Christ was by the Archbishop of Tours who died in 1133.

Then The Fourth Council of the Lateran, which convened in November 1215, spoke of the bread and wine as "transubstantiated" into the body and blood of Christ: "His body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been transubstantiated, by God's power, into his body and blood".

But then in 1625 or so Galileo's publication The Assayer, was brought to the attention of the Inquisition by a person unknown. The complaint charges that the atomistic theory embraced in this book cannot be reconciled with the official church doctrine regarding the Eucharist, in which bread and wine are ``transubstantiated'' into Christ's flesh and blood.

All Galileo really said was simply: “If it changes, than why does it taste the same?” In a nutshell that's the Atomistic Theory as it applied to transubstantiation.

In a World where the simple people knew the taste of good food and bad food, of good clean water and foul water: this was a devastating comment for the church.

So did Galileo get the bullet for this statement or some other trumped up charge against his and the Ptolemaic and Copernican model theories: that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe?