> Your notes at tertullian.org only draw attention to further nonsense
> written well after Christ's death, such as Polycarp's raising a bogey
> about an antichrist.

> On Mar 14, 6:08 pm, "roger.pea...@googlemail.com"

> <roger.pea...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 3 Mar, 18:44, thewayoftruth1 <bicbess2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > ...trinity ...
> > > actually this is not true at all, firstly, because this idea (known
> > > also as Athanasian Creed) was founded almost three centuries after
> > > Jesus and was adopted by the council ofNiceain 325 A.D. after a
> > > great debate the majority accepted Jesus to be a god! so we can say
> > > that Jesus was the only god chosen democratically! and that means that
> > > all those who had died before the year 325 were not true Christians,

> > The idea that Jesus was not considered divine by the early Christians
> > is a modern myth, based around the idea that denying his divinity and
> > praising him as a gifted man is a common idea today.

> > But the common ideas of ancient times were different.  Jesus the man
> > was considered a disreputable figure, mocked by pagan (see for
> > instance Minucius Felix for an example).  So the common error was to
> > claim that he was divine, but that his humanity was only in appearance
> > (docetism).

> > If we search for the words 'Jesus' and 'Christ' in the second century
> > fathers, we find them routinely asserting his divinity.  I did this
> > for other reasons some time back, and you can find the quotes and
> > references here:

> >http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/incarnation.html

> > The complete works of all these writers are online , you see, at

> >http://www.tertullian.org/fathers2

> > and many other places.

> > The idea that the Council of Nicaea voted Jesus as god is a crude
> > mistake, widely circulated and sometimes repeated in good faith by
> > those unfamiliar with the council.  But both sides at this council
> > were trinitarian.  The debate was on whether the second person of the
> > Trinity was of the same substance (homoousios) as the first, or of
> > like substance.

> > Links to all the ancient sources on the council can be found here:

> >http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/nicaea.html

> > I hope that this helps.  Whatever our opinions, don't we all want to
> > have the raw facts straight?

> > All the best,

> > Roger Pearse- Hide quoted text -

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