What was decided at the Council of Nicea?

Question

"Nicaea" rather.

Answer 1

That Arius, the heretic who said that Jesus Christ was a "creation" and not God ("There was a time when he was not") was condemned and the first part of the Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed was written.

It was decided that "homoousios" ("same substance") rather than "homoiousios" ("similar substance") would be used in the Creed in determining what the Son shared in subtance (ousia) with the Father.

Answer 2

The doctrine of the Trinity has long been taught in both Catholic and Protestant churches as the central doctrine of Christendom’s religions.

Is it from the Bible? The “Encyclopædia Britannica” explains that “neither the word ‘Trinity’ nor the explicit doctrine as such appears at any one place in the Bible.” (1971 ed., Vol. 22, p. 241) Concerning the dogma of “one God in three Persons,” the “Catholic Encyclopedia” acknowledges: “It is not, directly and immediately the word of God.”

Then where did the idea originate? Trinities of gods were common in ancient Egyptian and Babylonian mythology, and in the Hindu and Buddhist religions. At the right you see an ancient Egyptian triad of gods: Isis, Osiris and Horus.

According to “The New Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge,” pagan Greek philosophers influenced Christendom’s teaching: “The doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who, if not trained in the schools, were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the [pagan] Platonic philosophy.”

The Roman emperor Constantine also played an important role. Viewing religious division as a threat to the unity of the empire, he summoned a council of bishops at Nicea in 325 C.E. After two months of debate, the unbaptized emperor decided in favor of the Trinitarian advocates. Reports the “Encyclopædia Britannica” “Overawed by the emperor, the bishops, with two exceptions only, signed the [Nicean] creed, many of them much against their inclination.” Dissenters were banished.

Not long after this, however, the dissenters at Nicea were back in Constantine’s favor and a chief advocate of Trinitarianism was banned. Later, the Trinitarians were favored again, by Emperor Theodosius, who closed the places of worship of those who would not conform.

Thus, pagan philosophy and decrees of political rulers helped to shape the doctrine of the Trinity and give it the popularity it has today.

Answer 3

this was part of the "not one iota different" controversy

Jesus has a divine nature and a human nature,
It decided in his divine nature, Jesus was the same nature of God and "not one iota different"

was Jesus, in His divine nature, homoousios (the exact same nature) or add a iota in the middle homoiousious (like the nature of God... but not the same) ( I am sure Father K's spelling of this is more correct than mine, but the point is made)

later councils would discuss other issues such as the issue of the two natures of Jesus being fully GOd and fully man, such as the Council of Chalcedon and how the two natures relate... or at least they gave some bounds for what they are not

the council said Jesus was the exact same nature and NOT ONE IOTA DIFFERENT

we have a 12 line apostles creed and a 24 line somewhat elaborated creed called the Nicean creed which Catholics and Protestants believe both creeds

Answer 4

It is where we Catholics and some Christians got the Nicene Creed and the popular presbyter, Arius was condemned for his belief that Jesus was only of a similar substance as the Father and not of the same substance. In other words, he was preaching that Jesus was merely created and therefore not equal to God -- but Jesus himself had said, "the Father and I are one". John's Gospel also tells us that "in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God". Arius' teaching then became known as Arianism -- a big heresy in the Church.

Answer 5

Actually they convened to decide what was going on with Jesus. Check out Wikipedia.

Answer 6

The omittance of MANY books of the original bible. They added some lies too. Also, it was the first translation.
Look, these people were drunk, they didn't know what they were doing, and they had no idea how far they were going to lead people off the path. In truth, Christianity ain't so bad. But, people (YES, PEOPLE, not god) twisted it up into somthing it's not. That's why I could never be one.

Answer 7

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