No Byzantine is not a god. It is a term used by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of this empire and which continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years
The Roman Empire was falling apart, we might've never known science, medicine, and laws, like we know them now, without God making the Byzantine Empire possible and keeping it going for so long. I mean most things we know come from Rome and their philisophers. All though the Byzantine Empire was mixed with greek culture, it was also mixed with Roman culture, preserving what we know now. In these ways, God used the Byzantine Empire. I hope this helps and its actually better than the anwser I orginally wrote.
The Byzantines primarily worshipped Christianity, specifically in its Eastern Orthodox form, which became the state religion of the Byzantine Empire. They revered Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Virgin Mary, along with numerous saints, who were considered intercessors. The Byzantine church was characterized by its rich liturgical traditions, iconography, and theological scholarship, reflecting a deep integration of faith and culture in Byzantine society.
They thought that God wanted them to preverve and spread Christianity.
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He thought people were worshiping icons instead of god, and in the 10 commandments it says there is only on God! It was ordered to destroy images of Mary, Jesus and the saints to comply.
In the Byzantine Faith experience, it was God who invented memory.
The Byzantine Emperor was viewed as God's representative on earth since the days of Constantine. One Empire, One God and One Emperor. Unlike the monarchs of the west who would submit to the papacy, the byzantine monarchs were seen as equal if not superior to the pope and the orthodox patriarch of Constantinople by their citizens and courts.
They thought that God wanted them to preverve and spread Christianity.
They thought that God wanted them to preverve and spread Christianity.
The Roman Empire was falling apart, we might've never known science, medicine, and laws, like we know them now, without God making the Byzantine Empire possible and keeping it going for so long. I mean most things we know come from Rome and their philisophers. All though the Byzantine Empire was mixed with greek culture, it was also mixed with Roman culture, preserving what we know now. In these ways, God used the Byzantine Empire. I hope this helps and its actually better than the anwser I orginally wrote.
They intensified the religious experience by helping worshipers feel closer to God.
He argued that God in the Ten Commandments had prohibited images
1) The Empire's walls and 2) the Empire's divine protection by God.
The Byzantines primarily worshipped Christianity, specifically in its Eastern Orthodox form, which became the state religion of the Byzantine Empire. They revered Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Virgin Mary, along with numerous saints, who were considered intercessors. The Byzantine church was characterized by its rich liturgical traditions, iconography, and theological scholarship, reflecting a deep integration of faith and culture in Byzantine society.
They thought that God wanted them to preverve and spread Christianity.
because byzantine thought icons led to idol worship that was forbidden from god
There is no such thing as a western Byzantine Empire, only an east (Byzantine) and west Roman Empire.