At the council of Nicea, there was so much left out and banned and burned, have you ever looked into what truly were the original documents, or do you just accept what has been spoon fed to you? If God wrote it all, then how is it that a human or group of humans decide what was to be doctrine?
This is also based on Christians stating how much influence Satan has on earth, so why would you believe that Satan did not have influence in shaping your religion? Logically he would have.
2007-12-20 05:19:52 · 21 answers · asked by disturbed001500 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just Smile: If the Bible is truth, then look at my next question. I love when Christians say things like that, because then it allows for quoting of the Bible, because it is the "truth".
2007-12-20 05:26:46 · update #1
Athanasius: Nothing was left out? Are you sure? What about the Arian Controversy? What about the Gospel of Thomas? What about the Gospel of the Hebrews? Why would all copies of Thalia be ordered burned? You just don't know do you?
2007-12-20 05:34:47 · update #2
No! We never question anything! We do as we're told and follow what's written!
To question is blasphemy!
To deviate is heresy!
BURN, SINNER!
:D
2007-12-20 05:22:50 · answer #1 · answered by Goth Skunk 4 · 8⤊ 4⤋
Your take on the Council of Nicea is so far off the track that it's funny. It comes at the end of a long process and wasn't the univocal situation that you present. There were no books burned at Nicea, questions of the cannon had been setteled by then, except for tiny dissedent groups.
The Gnostics were never able to realy get to far in inserting themselves into the Church outside of a few places in Asia minor. The fact that the Arians, who were backed by the Emperer, lost at Nicea may point to the honesty of the process there. Dispite what Dan Brown or any of the other so-called scholars with axes to grind argue, Nicea was not some jugernaught running people over.
Your Questions about scripture make all sorts of assumptions about them and seem to be defined by Fundamentalism. The Modernist mindset of both the Fundamentalist Christins and the radical secularists insist on making Scriptures into somthing that they are not, namely inerrant. Your questions are irrelevant in that they make a set of ontolgical assumptions that the Church has never held outside of a rather recent period and even then a remarkably small group.
2007-12-20 05:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by John R 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is sufficient evidence both documentary and archeological that what we
believe is right. Satan did try to disrupt things.
At the council of Nicea he raised up Arius to question the divinity of Christ.
But God gave Athanasius and the others with him wisdom to refute it.
Esubius too was used in a similar way, but his argument was quelled.
2007-12-20 05:28:46 · answer #3 · answered by chris_muriel007 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I did!
I was in Jehovahs Witnesses until I checked out all there bogus "end of the world" predictions".
And the fact that they claim to be pagan-free but use all the same pagan symbolisms in their weddings that everyone else does. (ie the bride carries flowers, as the pagans did, which was an offering to fertility Gods) such hypocrisy
Then I left
2007-12-20 05:26:41 · answer #4 · answered by Tanya Pants 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow you are the first to point this out
Thanks I never thought of learning anything
Seriously I get so tired of thses so called intellectual people coming on here and thinking they have discovered something that NO ONE has ever thought of about Christianity
Yes I know the origins I read the history and I question everything
2007-12-20 05:28:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, deluded people. Satan is defeated by Christ and the Bible. Great heresies rose up, and were defeated by the truth. This happened well before the Council. If you studied, you might know this. To say any different, when the Bible itself is attested to, even by it's enemies, is just advertised stupidity.
2007-12-20 05:29:50 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Speaking as an atheistic infidel, I totally agree with you. But for questioning the official dogma, I am reporting you to The Inquisition as a heretic!!
2007-12-20 05:26:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only thing left out was the gnostic, false religion, blasphemous doctrines.
The Old Testament is word for word to the Dead Sea Scrolls and any good Theologian can take the Old Testament and tell you as much about Jesus that you can learn in the New Testament.
2007-12-20 05:30:12 · answer #8 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-02 04:14:56 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing was left out of Nicea. What was done was a canonization of what God intended to communicate. This means we formally rejected gnostic heresies amongst a host of others.
Satan has no ability to shape our religion, but he does indeed cause many problems ... for a time.
Ath
2007-12-20 05:23:05 · answer #10 · answered by athanasius was right 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
why does everyone think everything was "spoon fed" to Christians?
i dont know where you get your facts buddy, but i found God on my own, researched the history on my own, and live for God because i chose to.
because you dont chose God doesnt mean choosing Him is the illogical choice, remember that.
2007-12-20 05:24:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anthony C 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋