Can someone explain to me please what is the cousel of nisea?And what does that have to do with the bible?

Question

Dont wanna offend any one I am just curious.All I know is that a bunch of people choose what should or should not be in the bible.But Who were they and how long after Jesus was this and what happen to the bible before they edited it?

Answer 1

Constantine and the Council of Nicaea of 325-AD edited and compiled the bible. They had a great deal to do with it, they basically created it. They also threw out over 200 books of the bible -- this, froma group led by a Pagan Roman Emperor.

Go figure, huh? No wonder it's so full of errors.

It's also where a great deal of the christ-myth was cemented -- created from another cult myth held in Rome in that time period -- Mithras. Read about Mithras, and you'll understand where things like the virgin birth, martyrdom, apostles, and resurrection came from, to make the christ-myth story.

Go ahead, christians, give me the thumbs down, and go and ignore the truth and try to rewrite history to make yor cult look valid. jump down to TK421 for a dose of bible-logic, and how his answer to everything is yelling about the Da Vinci Code, which isn't mentioned anywhere here, except in his own post. the bible WAS edited and compiled by the Nicaean Council, and most of the books of the Bible were thrown out. This is where the state took control over the church, under Constantine I. That fact is well known, and this council, though it had several "outputs" had one purpose - to establish state control of the church and to quell the warring factions of the time.

AND, LOL!!! Constantine NEVER became a christian. He died a pagan Emperor who, like all those before him and after, thought they were Gods themselves. That has nothing to do with the bible they created or christianity. Stop being silly.

Additionally, it was Pope Damasus I who assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. He commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin. This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official Bible. That was AFTER the compilation and editing which took place in 325-AD. This is the FIRST record of any such list of books in the bible known to the church. THAT is history, folks, not blah-blah nonsense.

Answer 2

There were many years of discussion among all the Christian church centers around the Mediterranian Sea about which writings were to be included in the accepted books list. This began almost immediately after the first century. Because heretical writtings were appearing which oppossed the letters of St. Paul , other apostles and the Gospel writings, there was more interest in determining which writings were really from God.

"Inspiritation" was one of the criteria along with having to have been written by an apostle or an early disciple of Jesus which include St. Paul.

The Bible first becames pretty well set in 170 AD according to what we can learn from the Ante-Nicene church "fathers". Whatever the Council of Nicea of 325 AD had to do with it, most of the leg work and setting of the canon was long before that.

Answer 3

The Council of Nicea was called by Emperor Constantine in 325 because people were writing "gospels" and claiming they were written by apostles. There was another person (can't remember his name) who compiled a bible from books that did not agree with the Old Testament or with books that were known to be written by the apostles.

Once Constantine came to faith, he saw all these warring factions of Christianity, much like it is today. He got confused, and decided that he'd call a meeting of all the bishops of the Christian church, and they'd put together the Bible as it should be.

There were three rules that the council used to decide if it was a true book of the Bible. There had to be copies old enough to show that it was written by someone who had met Jesus. It had to be written by someone who had met Jesus. It had to agree with the Old Testament and the other books that were known to be right.

Keep in mind, before Constantine, if you were a Christian, you were hunted down and killed. If the Christians were going to die because a copy of an epistle or gospel was found in their home, they were going to die for a good reason. Therefore, most of the books in the New Testament were already accepted before the Council even met. There are a few that made it in that were dubious, such as James because it has no gospel in it. For most of the books that didn't make it into the New Testament, it was a no-brainer. They were downright heresey. The books that they couldn't decide on if they should or shouldn't belong in the Bible are in the Apocrypha.

Sorry this answer was so long.

Answer 4

Some of you claim that the Nicean Council didn't compile the books of the bible, but it did. And, you would never know if it didn't anyway... Why?

Because Pope Damasus I is responsible for assembling the first list of books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. He commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin. This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official Bible. That was AFTER the compilation and editing which took place in 325-AD. This is the FIRST record of any such list of books in the bible known to the church.

Jeebus-rectum (above) is correct.

Answer 5

The Council of Nicea did not choose what books formed the Bible. (Popular rumor)
Go to Wikipedia and do a search on Council of Nicea. You will find no mention of including or excluding books.
The main reason for the Council was a controversy circulated by Arius of Alexandria whether Christ was co-equal with God the Father.
It also established the Nicene Creed, resolved a matter concerning the separation of Easter from Passover and the resolved the Meletian Schism among other matters.

Answer 6

It developed the Nicene Creed. My old church preaches one version called the Apostle's Creed: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ... This was created to fight off heretics that believed Jesus wasn't God and so on and especially the Arians. The first was around 325 AD.

Exuse my ignorance on the rest of it, but I'm sure most of the stuff that got "thrown out" can be read if you get a copy of the Apocrypha and the Pseudopigrapha. These are collections of hundreds of writings that did not make it into the Bible. Pseudopigraphal writings are like 1Enoch. Enoch is one of Adam's grandsons, yet the book wasn't written until after the death of Jesus. Therefore, the Church threw it out. It also threw out Gnostic texts like the Gospel of Thomas (which was written by Gnostics several years later--not by Thomas!)

As for it being edited, I doubt there was anywhere near as much editing of books now in the Bible as people would like to claim.

For more info: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11044a.htm

Answer 7

The council of Nicea actually had nothing to do with choosing the cannon of scripture (that's a popular misconception) that was actually done at a council some time later.

The only thing Nicea was about was a big argument and then a vote with Constantine overseeing it all about whether God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost where physically seperate or physically one and the same (or the trinity). The concept of the trinity got the majority vote and the creed was made.

Answer 8

The Council of Nicea came 300+ years after the Birth of Christ, and after the founding of Nova Roma or later known as Constantinople. There is so much to write about this Council; one thing that it did was create the Nicene Creed after certain philophies/beliefs like Arianism were running rampant. The Nicene Creed was to be an accurate "profession of Faith" of the common Christian of the time. To this day, both the Orthodox churches and Catholic churches say this creed if I remember correctly.
The council of Nicea was very important with regards to Christianity basically, but as for editting the bible? I can not help you with that, I haven't heard of anything like that.

Answer 9

It was a counsel of ALL the church leaders of that time to sort out all of the heresies that abounded. (We could use one today). Through prayer, discussion and, yes, even fist fights they examined is a work presented to be placed in the Bible was coherent with was is the truth or just BS, like most of what is posted on this page. That is why the "lost gospels" exist. They weren't lost, they were discarded as heresies. That is where the Nicene Creed comes from. A statement of the basic beliefs of Christianity. God Bless.

Answer 10

The Books of the Bible were well accepted long before Constantine. They had an official council but the 27 book of the New Testament were accepted by the Christians more than a 100 years before that.