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» Migisi - Hell, Jesus, Nicea, etc.

In response to Hell, Jesus, Nicea, etc. posted by landiss77:
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Your grasp of Roman history is not as good as you believe it is.
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Maybe this will help:
General Councils,
Section III "HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ECUMENICAL COUNCILS" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04423f.h... (the Catholic Encyclopedia)
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Click on the title of the specific Council (i.e. blue text "Council of Nicaea"), and it will link to the page detailing the personalities involved, controversies and issues raised, votes, final decisions, etc.
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Brian wrote: But to say that Jesus' deity itself was up for debate until and during Nicea is simply not true - despite what Dan Brown & Co. say.
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There was indeed controversy over the divinity of Jesus before, during, and it continued after Nicea. The Arian doctrine controversy was discussed at the First Ecumenical Council: Nicaea I (325)
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Arianism - A heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.h...
(Quoting from above) ".... Such is the genuine doctrine of Arius. Using Greek terms, it denies that the Son is of one essence, nature, or substance with God; He is not consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father, and therefore not like Him, or equal in dignity, or co-eternal, or within the real sphere of Deity. The Logos which St. John exalts is an attribute, Reason, belonging to the Divine nature, not a person distinct from another, and therefore is a Son merely in figure of speech. These consequences follow upon the principle which Arius maintains in his letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia, that the Son "is no part of the Ingenerate." Hence the Arian sectaries who reasoned logically were styled Anomoeans: they said that the Son was "unlike" the Father. And they defined God as simply the Unoriginate. They are also termed the Exucontians (ex ouk onton), because they held the creation of the Son to be out of nothing." (end)
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-- posted by Migisi