Who were Arianism?
Who were Unitarianism?
2007-02-07 06:56:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Who are Jehovah's Witnesses?
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2007-02-07 06:58:44 · update #1
pagans who wanted to change the bible to sound like what they believed. Disregarding a bunch of scriptures other wise they took on the concept of a bunch of pagans.
Jesus said: after my going away false teachers would come in.
Jesus was created the almighty has always been here, these are the scriptures to prove it. read these showing a first cause and a first creation. The first cause was never created but always here.
Jesus was a first creation.
(Colossians 1:15-17) . . .5 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist,
(Revelation 3:14) 14 “And to the angel of the congregation in La·o·di·ce´a write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God,
(Acts 7:55) 55 But he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand,
(Revelation 1:1) 1 A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his slave John,
(Revelation 7:10) 10 And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
2007-02-07 07:01:30 · answer #1 · answered by Ruth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lets be simple with this shall we.
Constantine was a simple minded bloke.
He looked at his surroundings and saw that those who followed Jesus and those who were pagans (who btw were the majority) were killing each other all the time.
He decided to reconcile all this and give some sort of an edge for everyone.
He decided to become Christian. What a Christian he was. He decided that if they could 'deify' Jesus, pagans would listen to his message. Because pagans were sure as hell not gonna listen to some ordinary man who claimed he had a message from God.
So he got all these people together to add and take out whatever that was in the bible and eventually support the theory that Jesus was GOD *gasp* how dare they not listen to God? shame on them...
anyway...they made sure pagans got their ritualistic hollidays: you know halloween, christmas etc etc...
TADAAAA...Christianity was now convinient for pagans to take over as they had absolutely no change whatso ever to make to their previous lives PLUS theyd get to believe in this man-god creature...who by the way was all over Greek and Egyptian pagan mythologies...a hero made to die for their sins..how appropriate.
Therefore...he united people on false doctrine...
and made sure anyone who said anything against is was heretical by order of the people he bribed.
The real Christians who believed Jesus was divine and was also nothing but a man, they died and became extinct in time.
Unitarians? They could be on the right track here. Who knows.
Jehovas Witnesses believe Jesus was divine and but a man but theyre no where near being the original message of Jesus as Unitarians are.
2007-02-07 15:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sigh. Okay. For the millionth time, the council of Nicea was not a bunch of men who pulled the Bible out of their butts. All the scriptures had already been written -- there is much archealogical evicence to prove this. The council simply sat down and collected all the scripture into one comprehensive volume.
The concept of the Trinity existed long before 348 AD. I am SO tired of going over this day after day.
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2007-02-07 15:01:37 · answer #3 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Trinity believe has been their since day one, and the first council of nicaea didn't invent it since it was already know... Theophilus of Antioch 180 ad and Teutrellian 200 ad used the word TRINITY in their wrightings about 150 years before the council so your argument is dead
2007-02-07 15:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Borinke 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the council of Nicea is what made the concept of the Trinity (meaning taking the Godhead and actually making them literally physically one entity) official church doctrine.
My biggest issues with these counsels is that they functioned (and made important decisions) on the foundation of debate and voting. While in the Bible you'll notice in apostolic counsels or debates, decisions were always made on the foundation of direct revelation from God.
I'll always trust revelation over a vote.
2007-02-07 16:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All your questions have to do with supersitions and there can be no definitive answer because the nature of superstitions is change all the time. Based on the power of those who preach there rules and they change them to suit their own goals to control the masses. It is not by accident that major religions(superstitions) refer to their members as "flocks" as in sheep - weak and stupid if you can keep herding them in the direction you want them to go.
2007-02-07 16:29:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a big political-religious shing-dang meeting and controversy over the divinity and humanity of christ and his relation to the father and holy ghost and so they invented the trinity doctrine and shouted down the arians and upheld the athanasians. look it's just utter CONFUSION!
2007-02-07 14:59:53 · answer #7 · answered by Irreverend 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋