Jesus did not become God, He always was God, even before all ages. The council was summoned by the Emperor, who desired unity in the Roman Empire and thus called the Church's bishops together to settle the raging of the heresy of Arianism, the doctrine that Jesus Christ was a created being and therefore not truly the one God. This was a new idea, this council was not to establish a new faith but to affirm what was held to be true by the Apostles and to root out the false ideas that had spread with the second century movement of Gnosticism and the teachings of Arius. There was a church before there was a set cannon of scripture, it is the holy tradition and the truth revealed by the Holy Spirit that showed what was in line with the teaching of the Apostles that knew Christ and what appeared later by false teachers and abusers. Even John, the writer of the fourth gospel, spoke out against false teachers who called themselves Christians in the late first century. It is reported that one …More

My great grandmother would have loved to have seen that day, I'm sure. She died just under 6 months before Ceaucescu was toppled. I know I was happy to see the end of the Communist regime in Romania!

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