Emperor Theodosius is an emperor that always appears in all world history textbooks.
It is because he is the person who "indoctrinates" Christianity in the Roman Empire and has his successor succeed to Rome, which is divided into east and west.
What kind of person was Theodosius I?
Let's take a closer look.
It's just a servant of God
The one word for the life of Emperor Theodosius would be "God's servant."
In fact, his life was nothing more than a puppet of Ambrosius, the Bishop of Milan.
Why did that happen?
Emperor Theodosius was born as a child of General Theodosius of the Roman Empire.
This person was one of Valerintius I's arms, but was executed on charges of plotting a rebellion in 375, when the Germanic people began their migration.
He doesn't know if he was actually plotting a rebellion, but Theodosius was forced to live in Spain.
However, the empire was suffering from an unprecedented shortage of human resources. The empire had lost many soldiers, as represented by the great defeat of Hadrianopolis. Gratian, the son of Valerintianus, called out to Theodosius as the emperor of the eastern empire to succeed to the throne due to the death of his father.
Theodosius receives this story on condition of his father's rehabilitation.
Gratian himself died in the fight against the uprising Maximus in Britannia, and Valerintianus II was appointed as the emperor to the west of the empire at the young age of four.
It is only natural that the second generation, attacked by Maximus, would rely on Theodosius. At this time, Theodosius divorced his ex-wife, Elia, and is married to his second-generation sister, Gala.
Theodosius used Valerintianus II to the brim and killed him like a trash cloth, becoming the only Roman emperor.
Germanic policy
Theodosius had no way of dealing with the rushing Germanic opponents. There he comes up with a plan to relocate the Germanic people to Roman territory.
It is a condition of settlement and imposes military service on the Germanic people.
I don't know if he thought he was two birds with one stone, but did he expect Rome to be destroyed from the inside by the Germanic people decades later?
The migrant Germanic people were not obliged to pay taxes, and all the costs of the migration were borne by Rome.
Fanatic terrorism
Tiberius, the second Roman emperor, is famous for his terrorist politics, but it would not be comparable to the terrorist politics of Theodosius.
Theodosius, unlike Constantine, became a Christian quite early on, not on the verge of his death. And that determined his fate and the destruction of the Roman Empire.
When Emperor Theodosius visited Thessaloniki in Greece, he was in critical condition.
It was the Bishop of Thessaloniki who baptized Theodosius at that opportunity, and soon after that, Theodosius was said to have recovered like a lie.
I know a Christian minister. She became incurable and went to the minister, and she said she prayed every day and her illness was cured. She made her believe in God's miracles and now devotes her life to the spread of Christianity.
Theodosius would have been the same. He became a Christian believer.
Theodosius did not recognize any religion other than Christianity.
He punished not only those who had non-Christian beliefs or possessed rituals of other religions, but also those who were solicited and who knew that and did not inform them. .. He said he was guilty of death, especially to those who believed in other religions.
The rule-of-law nation Rome was already dead.
Freedom of religion, freedom of choice of profession, freedom of expression, all freedoms have disappeared from Rome!
That wasn't enough.
He banned all beliefs other than the Athanasius faction, which were justified by the Council of Nicaea, as heretics.
Other than Christianity, it is evil, and other than Athanasius, it is heretical.
The Athanasius faction is a trinity theory that regards Jesus as a god and equates the spirit, God, and Jesus. On the contrary, the Arians make Jesus a human being.
The Council of Nicaea justified the Athanasius faction, but it was the Arius faction that had the support, and the number was overwhelmingly higher than the Arius faction.
That's right, I wonder if Jesus is a human being, but Christians say it's different.
That's what religion is.
Emperor Theodosius made the Arians a heretic and completely eliminated them. The Arian priests banished him and made it thorough.
The Athanasius faction is called Catholic and is the only religion in Rome.
All are the deposits of Ambrosius, Bishop of Milan.
Yupiteru convicted
Theodosius went to Rome and hosted a meeting of the Senate.
And he approached. "Are you guys taking Yupiteru or Jesus?"
Senate folks rarely choose any option other than self-protection. Again, the majority took Jesus.
It is said that a human with bones chose to commit suicide on the spot.
Thus Yupiteru was found guilty.
The destruction of stone statues has begun throughout Rome.
Successive Roman emperors were deified and their statues lined up in Rome, but all were destroyed without exception.
The fact that some of the remaining stone statues are missing is also the effect of the destruction at this time. At present, most of the things left in perfect shape have been excavated from the town of Pompeii, which was laid down by the eruption of a volcano.
The others were destroyed by this stupid emperor.
Many books were also burned.
Qin Shi Huang did the Bookburning, but Theodosius, no, the Catholic Church did it more rigorously.
History books, works of art, traditions, everything was destroyed.
If I went against it, there was a death penalty.
Those who did not destroy the statue were mercilessly killed.
Freedom of speech and freedom of expression were no longer in Rome.
Yupiteru, Apollo, Mars, and successive emperors were no longer enshrined.
The statue of Yupiteru was replaced by the statue of Jesus.
It was the moment when the kingdom of God was founded in 392 and YHVH became the ruler of the world.
Bishop of Milan and the emperor who is just a puppet of God
The emperor could not stop the runaway of Christians.
At one point, Christians burned down the Jewish synagogue. Theodosius punished it and ordered the burnt-out synagogue to be rebuilt at the bishop's expense.
However, Ambrose protested this. He said it was a legitimate act to destroy a pagan building. As expected, the fanatic Theodosius ignored this. It doesn't make sense too much.
"Thanks to whom do you think you became an emperor?"
Theodosius couldn't say anything to Ambrosius.
Theodosius acquitted the criminals and withdrew his orders.
Roman law was defeated by religion.
An incident occurred in Thessaloniki, Greece, where a chariot star was caught. Fans of the race who got angry with this demanded the release of the players and became a riot. Theodosius sent an army to subdue it, but Ambrosius said he should officially atone for Jesus for sacrificing many innocent people in this case.
He continued to ignore him for eight months, but it was the emperor who finally broke his knee.
Theodosius did not wear the cloak, jewels, or crown that he normally wears, but instead became underwear in public, kneeling down and begging Jesus for forgiveness.
Many were watching it.
Bishop Ambrosius forgave it on behalf of Jesus. He showed his superiority with a crown on his head and a jewel on his cloak, as anyone could see.
Ambrosius feels good and gives Theodosius the rank of "Manus".
In 395 AD, Theodosius died.
And, as in the history textbook, the Western Roman Empire was ruled by Honorius, and the Byzantine Empire was ruled by Arcadius. The east-west division of the Roman Empire.
Personal evaluation of Theodosius
It can be said that Nero and Caligula are still better.
These people were clearly tyrants, but Nero loved and tried to protect Greek culture. It was Nero who brought the Olympia competition to Rome, but it was Theodosius who abolished the Olympia competition in Greece.
He destroyed everything that Rome had built. Tradition, art, literature. The treasures of mankind that Theodosius rejected are innumerable.
It is supposed that the Germanic Odoacer destroyed the Roman Empire in the west, and the Islamic state Ottoman Turkey destroyed the Roman Empire in the east, but it should be said that it was Theodosius who actually destroyed it. There will be.
He was the first Roman emperor to break his knees against Christ and opened the door to the Middle Ages, known as the Dark Ages.
I'm from the Faculty of Law.
The first thing to learn in the Faculty of Law is the importance of freedom of expression, the importance of religious freedom, economic activity, education, slavery restraint, and how important other liberties are.
Most of these were established rights in Greece and Rome.
This emperor, Theodosius, denied everything. All those who did not obey were executed.
It can be said that he was a tyrant who did not matter, such as Commodus.
Still, he is not criticized by posterity because he protected Christianity.
Currently, the rulers of the world are those who are clearly under the influence of YHVH. Russia, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, the countries of the Middle East, even the creators of google, are the only believers in God.
No matter how you find a god on the net, google can't be a god. Search engines and artificial intelligence are powerless in front of the true God.
Of course even history.
Even rebellion is unacceptable.
The Roman Empire, so mighty and powerful, won the battle against all foreign nations.
Rome, which was not defeated by Greece, Carthage, or Persia, had no choice but to finally break its knees before God.
If the earth were to be a proxy war for the gods, it would be said that Zeus, or Jupiter, had lost to YHVH.
On the contrary, from the standpoint of YHVH, a complete victory has come.
The dark ages from the perspective of human history are the golden ages from the perspective of God.
However, people are quite reluctant.
The Roman soul, which seemed to be completely lost, did not disappear easily.
1000 years after the destruction of Rome, Roman culture revives in Italy, where Rome was.
The history of mankind is a renaissance that means to revive it. Called.