The Divinity of Christ was taught long before Nicea

In one video, I discussed the common yet erroneous claim that the divinity of Christ was first invented at the Council of Nicea. In this follow-up video, I demonstrate that his divinity was taught centuries before the Council of Nicea was ever convened.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Apologetics
• Christianity
• Bible
• logic
• defending
• faith
• Christ
• divinity
• Nicea

[SeventhSun]

@grammastola

Should we reject the gospels because they are biased.

You flops are biased anyway, you need bias to continue your lives.

[rakovsky]

Grammastola and AGDIRGIA,

Thanks for your responses! In my everyday life I am shy to talk about our Christian faith, so your discussion is special. After watching your movie and others, I have come to a strong belief that the scriptures prophecy the Messiah's resurrection, and I wrote about my discovery on my "Rakovskii" blog on Livejournal.

Health, Happiness, and Inspiration to You!

[rakovsky]

@AGDIRGIA That is a good quote, showing that the early Christians saw Christ as God or a godlike being. Thanks.

[rakovsky]

@AGDIRGIA I have also been told by a friend that LOGOS (the "Word") is connected with God speaking to make Creation. His view was like you said, that that word is Jesus. I am not sure about the two interpretations, although they makes sense, as does the second one- Christ as the word of God sent to Humans to save us.

[grammastola]

@rakovsky Everything that I've said is readily verifiable. You can check Wikipedia regarding the dating of John's gospel, for example, since it cites its various sources. Wikipedia attests that even liberal scholars date it to AD 90-100, which is consistent with my claim that even the most late estimates place it near AD 90 -- not 100 years later, as people who haven't done the research sometimes claim.

[grammastola]

@rakovsky Constantine lived from AD 272 to 337, more than a century before even the earliest period of the Middle Ages. Thus, even if we were to accept that extra-Biblical "gospels" were burned during medieval times (and again, I'd like to see some hard evidence for that claim), that still would not support the spurious claim that Constantine went around burning other gospels. Various "gospels" did not make it into the canon, but that was due to their questionable origins and authorship.

[rakovsky]

@grammastola OK, I think it would be nice for me to hear some more about how the gospels argue for his divinity. You're right that there's "no lack of materials" on the matter. The priority is up to you, brother. I am not sure that the most liberal dating puts it at about 90 AD, although that sounds like a very reasonable time.

I am unsure about whether there is evidence that calling Jesus "logos" was a later addition, but I haven't looked into it.

[rakovsky]

@AGDIRGIA That is interesting about Pliny writing about Jesus being worshiped.

[rakovsky]

@grammastola OK, that makes sense. The topic of the scriptural predicyions of His resurrection are deep enough, that I am afraid I will be overwhelmed before I get a chance to get into it. I am unsure if extra-Biblical gospels were burned. It seems reasonable, what with the Middle Ages and dislike of heresy and all. But you are right that it is the sort of claim about history that folks like Dan Brown would promote.

[810suited]

@CBALLEN amen