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Clear searchConstantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
What Really Happened at Nicaea? Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die The Council of Nicaea has become a screen upon which almost every conspiracy about early Christia…
Read article →R. V. Sellers · Theological biography and history of doctrine · 1928
I recommend this study because it takes the reader beyond the familiar catchphrases about Nicaea and into the far less tidy world in which Christian language about Christ was still being argued, tested, and refined. Sellers shows that councils, bishops, imperial favour, personal…
View recommendation →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…t inadequate pictures preserve one or two of these truths by quietly sacrificing another. Nicaea answered one question and opened another The Council of Nicaea met in AD 325 principally to answer the claim that the Son was a creature. Its confession that He is “begotten, not made…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…at the New Testament contains several competing versions of Jesus and that the Council of Nicaea eventually selected His deity by ecclesiastical power or imperial vote. Popular scholars, atheist writers and social-media personalities then present this reconstruction as though ser…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…of redemption does not turn Him into a lesser kind of deity. Was the Trinity invented at Nicaea? The Council of Nicaea in AD 325 did not vote Jesus into deity. It used precise language to reject the claim that the Son was a created being. Christians had worshipped Christ, baptis…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…h language for Christ, even calling Him "our God". The technical vocabulary later used at Nicaea and Constantinople did not yet exist in its mature form. That does not mean those councils invented Jesus' deity, death or resurrection. Development in precision is not creation from…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…been changed. The Qur’an had never changed. The Trinity meant three gods. The Council of Nicaea invented the deity of Jesus. Nicaea, Calvinism and later denominational disputes might be confused with one another as though Christian history were a collection of half-remembered wo…
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