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Direct Answer Bercot portrays Constantine as relying on human reasoning and worldly tools—size, magnificence, and state management—to “promote Christianity,” because as an “unregenerated man of the world,” that’s what made sense to him. That confronts modern attraction-based strategies by asking whether they mirror Constantine’s confidence in outward impressiveness rather than the kingdom way.

Support from Transcript:

• Constantine “genuinely desired to promote Christianity,” but he was “an unregenerated man of the world,” so he promoted it “through human means.”
• He required worship places “to be substantially enlarged” by statute.
• He placed construction “under the oversight of the Roman provincial governors,” tying church growth to government mechanisms.
• He insisted buildings be “more magnificent” than pagan temples, adorned with “impressive colonnades,” “vaulted ceilings,” “beautiful fountains,” and “elegant marble floors.”
• His goal was attraction: make it hard for an unbeliever to pass without being “tempted to peer inside.”
• The transcript frames this “help” as part of the larger entanglement that later corrupted the church.