When did Jesus become divine according to church decision?

Question

Does anyone know the rough date of when the Catholic church made it definitive that Jesus was divine and created the trinity?

This is a legitimate question, I know there was a time, before that it was speculative. I'm not looking to get harassed, I just want the rough date and more information to put in my notes.

Answer 1

The divinity of Jesus was made a part of mainstream Christian doctrine at the First Council of Nicaea in 325. The doctrine of holy trinity was also finalized at the First Council of Nicaea, but subsequently modified at the First Council of Constantinople in 381.

Answer 2

By the First Council of Nicaea convened by Constantine in 325AD, This settled the Nicaean Creed wherein Christ is described as "God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God" . For further details see:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

It's strange how all the fundamentalists come tumbling out of the woodwork at a question like this. The divinity of Christ WAS NOT settled whilst he was alive (if, indeed, he ever was). All the quotations from a Bible the form of which was not settled until the 4th century. The Christian Church and its doctrines are the creation of man, no one else. Until the Council referred to above was held, there were many different views on how Christ should be viewed - have a look at Arianism for example. the Roman catholic Church got its way as it had the backing of the Roman Empire.

Answer 3

The Church was created by Him... that means, since the very 1st second the Catholic Church was created, it was assummed that Jesus is divine. it's not a decision made by the Church, the Church itself is a consequence of Jesus being divine, and therefore it is the base of it's creation. there can't be a better date than the same date of the Church's creation.

Answer 4

Jesus was crucified because He claimed to be God.

Even in Genesis, God is referred to as "elohim," the Hebrew plural of "god."

In Genesis 1, God created the heavens and the earth, then the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, indicating a duality. I don't know where the first Biblical mention of the third Person is.

I am sorry, but I am not Catholic and do not know when they formalized these doctrines; however, they are firmly rooted in Scripture.

Answer 5

This is a nonsensical question. Jesus claimed to be divine while he was here-and so he WAS! [and is].

See Matthew 3 in a KJV.

Answer 6

Read:

Jesus the Christ
by Thomas Zanzig


Read the Gospel According to Saint John

Unlike Catholics, Protestants believe solely in the Bible.

If so, there are many verses in St John that Jesus and God are one.

John 10

38 But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.


John 14
26 But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.


Chapter 10
30 I and the Father are one.


Chapter 17
11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.



Chapter 17
21 That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.



If God has intended that man should learn His religion from a book, the Bible, surely God would have given that book to man. Christ would have given that book to man. Did He do it? He did not. Christ sent His Apostles throughout the whole universe and said, "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you."






We must have Faith in order to be saved, and we must have Divine Faith, not human faith. Human faith will not save a man, but only Divine Faith. What is Divine Faith? It is to believe, upon the authority of God, the truths that God has revealed, that is Divine Faith. To believe all that God has taught upon the authority of God, and to believe without doubting, without hesitation. For the moment you begin to doubt or hesitate, that moment you begin to mistrust the authority of God, and, therefore, insult God by doubting His word. Divine Faith, therefore, is to believe without doubting and without hesitating. Human faith is belief upon the authority of men, on human authority. But Divine Faith is to believe without doubting, without hesitating, whatsoever God has revealed upon the authority of God, upon the Word of God.

Source(s):

Latin Vulgate
Douay-Rheims Bible