By Victor M Fontane
The First Council of Nicaea (in present-day Turkey) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea by the Roman Emperor Constantine I.
The First Council of Nicaea is the first Ecumenical Council, that is, universal, in that bishops from all the regions where there were Christians participated. It took place when the Church could enjoy stable peace and had the freedom to meet openly.
It marked the beginning of imperial penetration into the administration of the Christian church. This is how the union between church and state is created, bringing serious consequences later.
Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Christological issue of the divine nature of God the Son and his relationship to God the Father, the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed, mandating uniform observance of the date of Easter, and promulgation of early canon law. The council deemed Arianism a heresy and enshrined the divinity of Christ by invoking the term homoousios (Greek: “of one substance”) in a statement of faith known as the Creed of Nicaea.
In that council 23 Books were removed from the Bible
Including :
Books of the Apocrypha. 1 Esdras and 2 Esdras (150-100 BC) Tobit (200 BC) Judith (150 BC) Additions to Esther (Vulgate Esther 10:4 – 16:24) (140-130 BC) Wisdom of Solomon (30 BC) ...
Books of the Pseudepigrapha. Epistle of Barnabas. 3 Maccabees. 4 Maccabees. Assumption of Moses (Testament of Moses) Book of Enoch.
Mary.
Protevangelion.
I. Infancy.
II. Infancy.
Nicodemus.
Christ and Abgarus.
Laodiceans.
Paul and Seneca.
Also, in AD 543, the then ruler of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian I, blatantly and brutally removed the Teachings of reincarnation from the scriptures of Christian orthodox doctrines. For the first 500 years of Christianity, reincarnation was a vital component of Christian doctrines.
As such, how the Bible can be called the word of God and the church of God when was clearly manipulated by the Roman Empire though his Emperor and by the Church itself not counting of the manipulation in other councils in at lest the last 2,000 years?
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