The world of ancient Rome was like a confused sea, rising waves like warring bands, crashing into and over one another, exploding into tumult and foam.

The sea of Rome needed a direction. exploding into tumult and foam.

The sea of Rome needed a direction, a tide to control and calm her.

When Constantine rose to power in 312 AD, He brought a steady hand to the Roman people and for a time calmed

her but another people inside Rome needed the firm hand of leadership. The Christian Church had also been in turmoil. Christians had

been hunted like animals. Her bishops used for sport and entertainment of the

masses. The Christian Church in her young life

had experienced little peace, peace that is required to continue to solidify

unity in doctrine.

When the new emperor Constantine made Christianity a legal religion,

she gained the peace required to unite.

The church had solid foundations, but new corruptions continued to

assail her. Nosticism had been a danger for hundreds of years. Then modalism in response to Gnosticism swung the pendulum to the other extreme.

One presbyter was a rising star in his take on different modes of his being. This man was charismatic, an excellent

communicator and poet. The method of teaching that spread most effectively, though,

were his adaptations of common Roman work songs.

Constantine said the following about this Presbyter's music.

He resorted to composing Psalms and ballads for sailors and millers as well as songs of the kind that

donkey drivers are accustomed to sing on their journeys.

His charisma, poetry, and music would not have been an issue if he had

been teaching right doctrine, but it wasn't right. In an overreaction to modalism, this presbyter was teaching that God didn't take different modes,

but were actually separate beings.

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