Nicaea

I'm abbreviating the name here.

The reason Rabbonim, so that means the rabbis, don't believe Jesus Christ is Messiah is because Christians, since Nicaea and Rome, believe J.C. came to abolish the law of Moses.

According to Deuteronomy 18 and 13, that would make J.C. a false messiah.

Oh, it's a great point in terms of over the centuries, because followers of Jesus became more and more Gentile.

And that is the question of, okay, well, when... did the roman catholic gospel become corrupt was it over time you know i talk about accretions creeping in things that have crept in over time false teachings such as the marion dogmas and the uh other views of the the priesthood and and those things uh but when do you think uh the corruptions were to the point where the gospel was so obscured that it was no longer the gospel

It is hard to give an exact year with that, but we already see the seventh ecumenical council, the Council of Nicaea in 787.

They said, to those who apply to the sacred images, the sayings in divine scripture against idols, anathema.

To those who do not kiss the holy and venerable images, anathema.

So notice, and they defined anathema as complete separation from God, complete separation from God.

So, if even in 787, when the Catholic Church agrees, and so does the Orthodox Church agrees with this council, Nicaea too, well then, already at this time, 787, they've anathematized the gospel then.

They're saying, unless you go up to these images, these icons, and kiss them, then you're going to hell.

And so they've already distorted the gospel there in the first millennia, right? And Now, at the other councils, they were more not so much on salvation.

Hey, David, you'll love this.

This weekend, I'm teaching a course on medieval church history, and I'm going to be talking about Nicaea Dose.

I thought that might interest you.

All right.

And, you know, you could just look it up.

Council of Nicaea, the second Council of Nicaea in 700, 700 AD, 780, something around those lines.

That's when they formally approved the creating of veneration of icons.

That is one of the – and so it was happening prior to that.

And so – but then the first council in Nicaea, the church of – the Catholic church looked completely different than 400 years afterwards in 700.

And so that's – there's a lot of history there if you want to just – there's some great resources online.

You just got to Google and just figure it out.

She came on board, and he put out to sea.

And a certain Menecrates, who published a history of the Bithynian city of Nicaea, says that Theseus, with Antiope on board his ship, spent some time in those parts, and that there chanced to be with him on this expedition three young men of Athens, who were brothers, Eunios, Thoas, and Soloas.

This last, he says, fell in love with Antiope, unbeknown to the rest, and revealed his secret to one of his intimate friends.

That friend made overtures to Antiope, who positively repulsed the attempt upon her, but treated the matter with discretion and gentleness, and made no denunciation to Theseus.

Myron of Phyla conducted the prosecution, and the family of Megacles was found guilty.

Those who were alive were banished, and the bodies of the dead were dug up and cast forth beyond the borders of the country.

During these disturbances the Megarians also attacked the Athenians, who lost Nicaea and were driven out of Salamis once more.

The city was also visited with superstitious fears and strange appearances, and the seers declared that their sacrifices indicated pollutions and defilements which demanded expiation.

But the problem is that you have to have your blinders on to not see the mountain of Catholic doctrines represented, even in just the anti-Nicene fathers.

You know, before the Council of Nicaea is what I like to focus on because everyone likes to say after Nicaea is all corrupted.

But you're like, I can prove it to you with just the first 200 years in the Bible.

You nailed it.

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It ends at Nicaea with an emperor in the room.

This is where Season 2 closes.

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But, yeah, false teaching often transferred from existing philosophical thought raised challenges such as, well, God himself might be a created being, that Jesus was less than God, made by God, or that Jesus was God, but was never really human.

So 1,700 years ago, over 300 church leaders met in Nicaea for three months, and the key outcome was agreeing the wording of the Nicene Creed.

And this 224-word document, it stood the test of time incredibly well.

It's accepted by all expressions of the church across the world, including Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant.