Report from Nicea part 1a

Two commentators report the "Canons" (decisions) of the Ecumenical Council of Nicea from 325 A.D. (Canons 1-7)
(Edit: the last part of canon 7 is cut off, see part b)

See part 1b here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb77kLnZow0

Translated by Henry Percival. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 14. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1900.)

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3801.htm

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[pandirasbox]

2 or 3 witnesses, wow Jewish

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@pandirasbox Jesus is Jewish.

[pandirasbox]

Yea the church always changes it mind and teachings and rules from century to century. If you can't notice that you are so lost.

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@pandirasbox you speak as if that's a bad thing. The Church is a living institution, not something dead sealed in a cave somewhere a long time ago. but seriously, if you're going to level this charge, how do you deal with the fact that what you call "Gnosticism" today has changed drastically from what it was in the second century, or the fact that there was a huge diversity even then as to what gnosticism was? so where is the higher standard? no offense.

[pandirasbox]

The council of Nicaea is sheer garbage

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@pandirasbox "The council of Nicaea is sheer garbage"

Thanks for sharing your opinion, now care to back it up with something, ANYTHING of substance? I mean, if you're going to claim direct private revelation from God, I guess the conversation is over. but if you can provide some historical, documentary or textual evidence, I'm all ears.

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@pandirasbox Jesus is Jewish.

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@SaudaraLink obviously I don't have the last word on any of these topics, I'm just going by what I know. I'd have to research it further.

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But clearly it was a pressing enough issue in the region by 325, that the Council of Nicea had to make a ruling on it... to separate out those who were willingly vs. unwillingly castrated amongst the clergy.

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@SaudaraLink I honestly don't know. I do know that celibacy and chastity were very popular in the early Church. there were also sects that went to extremes (such as prohibiting all marriage or sexual activity even within marriage), though these were pretty consistently condemned by what we'd call orthodoxy in that time. Whether there were those who willingly castrated themselves for this purpose, I don't doubt, but how common it was, I can't say.