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Here is an odd thing about Christians and the New Testament. There are many things that managed to slip by the Nicene Council when they were purging the gnosis from scripture. There's plenty of gnosis still in the New Testament, but Christians kind of skip over that part. The Bible says we are the “sons of Elohim,” usually translated as “children of God.” In the modern vernacular I use in A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, we are the fractals of the Spirit of God. We are the fruit of the elohim above, who are themselves the divisions of the Adonai Elohim (Lord of the Fullness and Son of the Father God Above All Gods). So when Jesus said we are elohim, sons of God, he was saying we, too, are the fractal elohim of God. Jesus was not the only son of God. We are all the sons of God, or the children of the Adonai Elohim.

Here is an odd thing about Christians and the New Testament. There are many things that managed to slip by the Nicene Council when they were purging the gnosis from scripture. There's plenty of gnosis still in the New Testament, but Christians kind of skip over that part. The Bible says we are the “sons of Elohim,” usually translated as “children of God.” In the modern vernacular I use in A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, we are the fractals of the Spirit of God. We are the fruit of the elohim above, who are themselves the divisions of the Adonai Elohim (Lord of the Fullness and Son of the Father God Above All Gods). So when Jesus said we are elohim, sons of God, he was saying we, too, are the fractal elohim of God. Jesus was not the only son of God. We are all the sons of God, or the children of the Adonai Elohim.

Today, I would like for us to study a church that went viral, a New Testament congregation that grew by leaps and bounds. I am referring to the church in the ancient city of Antioch, and the first reference to the church in that city is found in Acts 11:19-30. The congregation “went viral”. From secular history, we are told that by the time of the Nicene Council in 325 AD, there were more than 200,000 Christians in the city of Antioch alone. The hand of the Lord was with them. These are things that we can still do today. Endure Persecution. Openly Talk About The Word Of God In Their Everyday Lives. Through Righteous Living, God's Grace Was On Display. Identify With Jesus Christ. Reach Out To Help Those In Need. God can still use a church like the church in Antioch. We can do every single one of these things this week right here in the Pembina Valley. We can go out the doors of this building, and we can show Jesus to somebody today.

We will return to the ethereal plane. However, we're going through this earthly manifestation experiencing materialism. It's different than the ethereal plane. It resembles the ethereal plane, but it is ”fallen.” It's at a slower rate of vibration. It's dense and thick and confusing. And so it's very hard to remember Gnosis when we're in this state. In Gnostic terms, as well as traditional Judaic and Christian terms, the Son is a piece of the Father. The Son contains the ALL. The Son contains all of the characteristics of the originating consciousness in a contained and discrete form. The Son is what we now call a perfect fractal of the entirety of the Father. The Son is like the bucket dipped into the limitless sea of consciousness, and it contains exactly the same ocean water of consciousness that the Father contains. This aspect of Judaism and Christianity was cut out of the canonical texts of the Bible by the Emperor Constantine and Pope Clement during the Nicene Council's packaging of Christianity for the Empire of Rome. The Pleroma of the Aeons was well known to the Jews during the time of Jesus, and it survives in the New Testament as various references to Aeons, but those Aeons have been interpreted through the Latin as ages, and this has caused a long-standing misinterpretation of Aeons as units of time, rather than units of consciousness. There's only one bucket that dips into that limitless sea, and that is the Son. The Son is the only emanation from the originating Father. The Aeons are facets that emerge from the Son, each different from one another. The Aeons are like individual rays of the sun. Together, they form the totality of the Son. The Aeons sit together in perfect harmony in a state known as the Fullness of God, also called the Pleroma.

We will return to the ethereal plane. However, we're going through this earthly manifestation experiencing materialism. It's different than the ethereal plane. It resembles the ethereal plane, but it is ”fallen.” It's at a slower rate of vibration. It's dense and thick and confusing. And so it's very hard to remember Gnosis when we're in this state. In Gnostic terms, as well as traditional Judaic and Christian terms, the Son is a piece of the Father. The Son contains the ALL. The Son contains all of the characteristics of the originating consciousness in a contained and discrete form. The Son is what we now call a perfect fractal of the entirety of the Father. The Son is like the bucket dipped into the limitless sea of consciousness, and it contains exactly the same ocean water of consciousness that the Father contains. This aspect of Judaism and Christianity was cut out of the canonical texts of the Bible by the Emperor Constantine and Pope Clement during the Nicene Council's packaging of Christianity for the Empire of Rome. The Pleroma of the Aeons was well known to the Jews during the time of Jesus, and it survives in the New Testament as various references to Aeons, but those Aeons have been interpreted through the Latin as ages, and this has caused a long-standing misinterpretation of Aeons as units of time, rather than units of consciousness. There's only one bucket that dips into that limitless sea, and that is the Son. The Son is the only emanation from the originating Father. The Aeons are facets that emerge from the Son, each different from one another. The Aeons are like individual rays of the sun. Together, they form the totality of the Son. The Aeons sit together in perfect harmony in a state known as the Fullness of God, also called the Pleroma.

The three humans Doctrine of the Lord 35. vi. By successive steps the Lord put off the human taken from the mother, and put on a Human from the Divine within Him, which is the Divine Human, and is the Son of God. That in the Lord were the Divine and the human, the Divine from Jehovah the Father, and the human from the virgin Mary, is known. Hence He was God and Man, having a Divine essence and a human nature; a Divine essence from the Father, and a human nature from the mother; and therefore was equal to the Father as to the Divine, and less than the Father as to the human. It is also known that this human nature from the mother was not transmuted into the Divine essence, nor commingled with it, for this is taught in the Doctrine of Faith which is called the Athanasian Creed. For a human nature cannot be transmuted into the Divine essence, nor can it be commingled therewith. [2] In accordance with the same creed is also our doctrine, that the Divine assumed the Human, that is, united itself to it, as a soul to its body, so that they were not two, but one Person. From this it follows that the Lord put off the human from the mother, which in itself was like that of another man, and thus material, and put on a Human from the Father, which in itself was like His Divine, and thus substantial, so that the Human too became Divine. This is why in the Word of the Prophets the Lord even as to the Human is called Jehovah, and God; and in the Word of the Evangelists, Lord, God, Messiah or Christ, and the Son of God in whom we must believe, and by whom we are to be saved.   The human from the Father is NOT the son of Mary True Christian Religion 94. In the Christian churches of the present day it is customary to call the Lord our Savior the son of Mary, and rarely the Son of God, except when a Son of God born from eternity is meant. This is because the Roman Catholics have made Mary the mother more holy than all others, and have exalted her as a goddess or queen over all their saints. When, however, the Lord glorified His Human He put off everything belonging to His mother, and put on everything belonging to His Father. This shall be fully shown in subsequent pages of this work. From this saying, so common with all, that the Lord is the son of Mary, many enormities have flowed into the church; especially with those who have not taken into consideration what is said of the Lord in the Word; as that the Father and He are one, that He is in the Father and the Father in Him, that all things of the Father are His, that He called Jehovah His Father, and that Jehovah the Father called Him His Son. These enormities that have flowed into the church as a result of His being called the son of Mary, and not the Son of God, are, that the idea of Divinity in respect to the Lord perishes, and with it all that is said of Him in the Word as the Son of God; also that through this, Judaism, Arianism, Socinianism, Calvinism, as it was at its beginning, gain entrance, and at length Naturalism, and with it the insane notion that He was the son of Mary by Joseph, and that His soul was from the mother; and therefore that He is not the Son of God, although He is so called. Let everyone, whether clergyman or layman, question himself whether he has conceived and cherishes any other idea of the Lord as the son of Mary than that He was merely man. Because even in the third century, when Arianism arose, such an idea had begun to prevail among Christians, the Nicene Council, for the purpose of maintaining the Divinity of the Lord, fabricated a Son of God born from eternity. By this fiction the Human of the Lord was then exalted, and with many is still exalted, to Divinity; but it is not so exalted with those who by the hypostatic union understand a union like that between two beings, one of whom is superior and the other inferior. Yet what else results from this than the destruction of the entire Christian church,

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Hello and welcome to the show today! It is such a pleasure to have you with us again today as we study the Word of God together. A Student's Justice Question— You know, not long ago I read the story of a young boy who once asked his teacher if it was right to get punished for something he didn't do. And the teacher looked at him and assured him that it wasn't. And the boy, breathing a sigh of relief, looked back at him and said, “That's good, because I didn't do my math homework.” Smart kid. In The Image of A Just God— But you know, in all sincerity, it can be very frustrating to see somebody accused and punished who never did anything wrong. And I think equally frustrating is seeing evil people get away with doing evil things. There is an innate desire in all of us for justice. And that is because each of us has been created in the image of God; and God is a God of justice. And if you don't believe that, then you have never really read or understood the Bible; which is so clear that if you oppress the widow or the fatherless; if you mistreat women; if you abuse those who work for you, then you had better watch out because you have set your self against an Almighty justice-loving God. God is very much concerned with justice. Now is He the God of mercy? Absolutely. But there can be no mercy without justice. In fact justice helps us to define what mercy really is. And grace is not some kind of an override to justice. It is not punishment averted/avoided but punishment redirected; the punishment for our sins being placed upon God's Son so that justice could be satisfied while at the same time allowing God to show us mercy. Getting Angry— But this whole issue of injustice is something that you and I face every day. We watch television programming that often times infuriates us because various news networks know how to stoke our sense of justice. And in a way, we should get angry. Because a lot of what we see truly is unjust. And the person who never gets angry at injustice doesn't truly love justice or the people suffering from injustice. And part of the reason we have an angry society is because of injustice, which has been allowed to pervade on many and various fronts. And the truth is that before you can have a happy society, you first must have a just society. That is why God had so many rules regarding how justice ought to be carried out. He wanted to create a secure society so that that society would be free to experience peace, joy, and happiness. The Supreme Mark— Now in light of that, I have often wondered what it would have been like to live in Paul's time, under an empire like Rome; where you are constantly under the crushing weight of Rome's oppression, taxes, and differing standards of justice depending on whether you are a man or a woman, slave, free, a Roman citizen or not. What would it have been like to be a Christian during that time? You know, we complain of injustice; but the supreme mark of injustice during that time was the cross of Jesus. It is the supreme example of how deeply the justice system of mankind can fail. Jesus was declared by Pilate to be without fault and yet was executed in the worst possible way. And, you know, he had asked Jesus the most horrifying question any judge could ever ask: What is truth? That's a scary thing, because if you have no absolute standard of truth, then you have no absolute understanding of justice. And because of that you ended up with He who is Truth and Justice dying on the cross. Now followers of Jesus (like Paul) also often carry (as part of the crosses they bear) the burden of suffering unjustly for the name and cause of Jesus Christ. The Nicene Meeting— You know, many of you are probably familiar with the Nicene Creed, one of the most important theological treatises ratified by the church in the 4th century. Many of you have probably at least read it. Some of you may know it by heart. But what you may not know is that [At the Nicene Council, an important church meeting in the 4th century A.D. {that met to establish this creed}, of the 318 delegates attending, fewer than 12 had not lost an eye or lost a hand or did not limp on a leg lamed by torture for their Christian faith.] In their context, suffering injustice for the sake of Christ was just part of being a Christian. And that is what we have been seeing in the life and ministry of Paul; and today's passage in Acts chapter 25 is only one of many examples of that. Paul Left In Prison— Now we have most recently seen Paul being brought to trial before Governor Felix in Caesarea. And that trial went pretty well for Paul. None of the claims against him could be substantiated. And so (in a just world) he should have been let go. But Felix decides to hold Paul until Lysias the Tribune comes down and to pass the verdict after that. But it doesn't look like Lysias ever came. Lysias may in fact never have been sent for. Felix probably didn't want to anger the Jews and cause potential political problems for himself by passing the inescapable verdict of “not guilty”. And this is somewhat confirmed in the passage that follows because we see that after the trial he holds Paul for two years, sending for him periodically. By the way, just imagine that; suffering two years of imprisonment for false claims that could not be substantiated; two years of experiencing the same kind of wrongful imprisonment that Joseph had experienced when Potiphar's wife had falsely accused him. And on top of that, the person who is keeping you there (Felix) is constantly sending for you whenever he feels like it. And there might have been this constant hope in Paul's heart that maybe this would be the time that Felix would say “You're free to go.” But each time was a disappointment. Each time he was sent back. Now Felix is eventually ousted from office by Emperor Nero two years after Paul's hearing. His brutality (which had angered the Jews) had led to that. But on his way out, wanting to do the Jews a favor (24:27), he leaves Paul in prison. And so now a new governor comes into power; a man by the name of Porcius Festus. Porcius Festus— Now we do not actually know that much about Porcius Festus. You will remember that Felix had been an ex-slave whose brother had obtained for him the position of governor. But now this new governor (Porcius Festus) has come into power. And (unlike Felix) Festus [was a member of the Roman nobility]. He was only governor for a brief time, as [he died two years after assuming office], [but the Jewish historian Josephus described him as better than either his predecessor or his successor]. What To Do With Paul?— And he may have intended on leading with integrity and doing what was right. But when it came to Paul and Jewish politics, he found things not so easy to handle. Paul was a Jew whose countrymen wanted him dead, but he was also a Roman whose government did not know what to do with him. And Festus is really caught between a rock and a hard place, because if he lets Paul go, the Jews will cause trouble. That was something that he knew he did not want to risk. On the other hand, if he kept Paul in prison, he might [have to explain why a Roman citizen was being held without any official charges.] And so Paul is like this powder keg that Festus knows is in his best interest to deal with as soon as possible. And we will see in this chapter and the next how Festus is present in three different situations directly related to the apostle Paul. But let's begin with verse one of chapter 25. It says… Acts 25:1-3 (ESV)— 1 Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. Festus Comes to Jerusalem— Now the reason he came to Jerusalem was no doubt in part to acquaint himself with the situation there in his new province and to pay his respects to the Holy City. But it was also [to meet the Jewish leaders (the high priest and the Sanhedrin) and, as much as possible, conciliate them. Those leaders, Festus knew, were the key to establishing peace in Judea. And maintaining peace was the highest priority of a Roman provincial governor.] But the Jewish leaders capitalize on his desire to try to make peace with them by pouncing on the opportunity to bring up the case against Paul and try to get him killed. It says…} 2 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him, 3 asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem—because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way. Plotters— So here we see that a second ambush is planned. And the Sanhedrin are involved, this time not as the accomplices (23:14-15) but as the plotters, which shows that things are getting more serious. Now Festus likely knew nothing about the previous plot against Paul and probably thought that the Jewish leaders were on the up and up. He probably never suspected that they were out to assassinate Paul. And it would have made sense to have Paul transferred. It was a matter concerning a Jewish prisoner and the Jewish law, and so it would make sense for him to be tried in Jerusalem. And [a Roman court could meet in Jerusalem as well as in Caesarea], so it would have been completely normal procedure to have Paul transferred. And Festus (not suspecting a plot) would probably not send Paul with much protection, so ambushing and killing Paul would have been pretty easy. But Festus [preferred to conduct most of his business from Caesarea, particularly in cases that could be drawn out.] And so he does not comply with their request to have Paul sent to Jerusalem. Instead, it says in… Acts 25:4-6 (ESV)— 4 Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly. 5 “So,” said he, “let the men of authority among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them bring charges against him.” {So the chance to ambush Paul slips through their fingers. And it says…} 6 After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought. Our Crosses— And next week we will see what happens after that. But, you know, this whole story raises the issue concerning how you and I are to respond when you and I face injustice because of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Paul doesn't become embittered; he doesn't ask “Why me?” He doesn't curse his captors. No, he recognizes that this is his present cross to bear and that, in doing so, he was identifying with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in that he was living the life of the cross. And when you and I suffer for the sake of Christ, we also identify with Christ. And if we endure for Christ's sake and for the sake of those He is seeking to reach, He can use our sufferings to bring about victories that we would never even think possible. And that is what we have seen and will continue to see in the life of Paul. And on the other side of suffering for Christ is reward; eternal reward. James 1:12 (NIV)— 12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. Let's Endure— And so let us endure so that we also may receive the crown of life. Amen.

During today's conversation on Backporch Theology, we're going to basically do happy dances in the studio recounting some of the amazing things God did at our Kerygma Summit a few weeks ago. And then after a few minutes of old-school testifying about the GREAT things He has done we're going to dive into the tricky waters of trinitarian theology. St. Augustine himself admitted the Trinity was a mystery, difficult for the finite human mind to grasp and yet rather than being some obscure doctrinal issue we can secretly scootch to the edge of our belief system, is the foundational wall of our Christian belief system, the very heart of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, it matters today every bit as much as it mattered in the 4th century when it was the focus of the Nicene Council and the Council of Chalcedon when ancient church leaders were first grappling with each other and the Holy Spirit to figure out what were the bedrock imperatives and standards of biblical orthodoxy! So please grab a big cup of coffee and your Bible – unless you're driving or eating bugles of your fingers, of course! – and come hang out on the porch with us. Back Porch Theology sponsored in part by Dwell Bible App. Save 30% off Dwell for Life at Dwellapp.io/LisaHarper

The Trinity remains a massively popular theory to understand God in Christianity today as it has since the fourth century. Some go so far as to condemn any attempt to understand the concept while others are content to allow their faith to seek understanding (fides quarens intelectum). Nevertheless, most Christians have never honestly assessed this doctrine in light of scripture, reason, and history. In what follows, we'll begin by taking systematic theologian Wayne Grudem's definition of the Trinity to build an understanding of this model of God (social Trinity). Next we'll take a brief survey of the history of the idea from it's antecedents in the second and third centuries to the full-blown understanding in the sixth century. Lastly, we'll evaluate the concept based on scripture and reason. Whether you believe in a Trinity theory or not, I hope this presentation will help you understand it better and see why an increasing number of people are questioning the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDGNGWf2buM —— Notes —— Definition God is three persons Each person is fully God There is one God History Theophilus (184) Tertullian (208) Alexander (313) Nicaea (325) Constantinople (381) Ephesus (431) Chalcedon (451) Athanasian Creed (500s?) Bible God is one person (Deuteronomy 4.35, 39; 6.4-5; Mark 12.28-34; John 17.3; 2 Kings 19.19), routinely referred to as “he” rather than “they.”  Since every time people in Scripture speak to or about God, they always use singular pronouns, we should be suspicious of affirming plural persons within God. The Holy Spirit is not a different person from the Father or Son since it lacks a name, never sends greetings (Romans 1.7), is left out of fellowship (1 John 1.3), is intrinsic to the Father's mind (1 Corinthians 2.11), is never prayed to, is left out of key Christian creedal statements (1 Corinthians 8.6; 1 Timothy 2.5-6; 2 Timothy 2.11-13), is left out of end times knowledge (Mark 13.32), and is never given a throne like the Father and Son (Revelation 3.21). Jesus is not fully God because he is not the same substance (1 Timothy 2.5), not eternal (Matthew 1.18; Hebrews 1.5), not a se (John 6.57; Mark 10.18), not omnipotent (John 5.19, 30), not equal to God (John 14.28; 1 Corinthians 15.28), not omniscient (Mark 13.32), not immortal (1 Corinthians 15.3), not invisible (1 Timothy 1.17; 6.16), and temptable (Hebrews 4.15) unlike God (James 1.13). Not only do the words “Trinity,” “same substance,” “eternal generation,” “three persons,” etc., fail to occur in the Bible, but Scripture likewise lacks any explanation of the concept of the Trinity.  Furthermore, if the apostles were teaching about the Trinity, why is it missing from their recorded sermons in Acts?  If the Apostle Paul taught the Trinity, why didn't any of his opponents bring up that issue either during his missionary journeys or among the many issues he dealt with in his letters?  Furthermore, if Jesus were merely playing the role of a lowly human in his “incarnation,” why does the resurrected, ascended, and exalted Christ still refer to the Father as “my God” (Revelation 3.12) and remain in subjection to God for all of eternity (1 Corinthians 15.28)? —— Links —— See Five Major Problems with the Trinity See The Trinity before Nicea more episodes about the Trinity Take a free class that builds a biblical unitarian theology from the ground up: 1 God Over All Support Restitutio by donating here Designate Restitutio as your charity of choice for Amazon purchases Join our Restitutio Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter @RestitutioSF Leave a voice message via SpeakPipe with questions or comments and we may play them out on the air Intro music: Good Vibes by MBB Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Free Download / Stream: Music promoted by Audio Library. Who is Sean Finnegan?  Read his bio here.

The plot to destroy Black people, happen in antiquity when miscegenation conception occurred, with uncivilized Caucasoid, and the civilized African Hybrid People.  The process conceived is like a graphic blueprint, just like in dye casting, explained in the following: Die casting is a metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mould cavity. The mould cavity is created using two hardened tool steel dies which have been machined into shape and work similarly to an injection mould during the process. CAUCASOID PURITAN EVIDENCE: The beginning of white men psychological brain masking approach of the hybrid; effectuated on 509 B.C. coup overthrow of the Roman Etruscan Lucius Tarquinius King Rome Italy. The track of their path, shows chronological progressive phases, leading from the start to the full accomplishment. Along the way the use of the king's military turns "white Roman Republic," for invasion and conquests of only Black hybrid people land and wealth. 63 B.C. Palestine conquest, change of Polytheism Elohim gods Zodiacal Calendar, to sodomite characters of Gregory, and spurious Jesus Christ birth, production of bible, then the Nicene Council launching of Christianity 325 A.D. their uncivilized sodomite, invalid lawless artificial government, license to all assets belong to the civilized African hybrid people, and to kill them with A.D. law impunity-- God of evil world.  Their official document titled, PURITAN CHRISTIAN AGENDA, detailed all of their terrorist narcissist intent, that has turned the civilized world ruled by legitimate Elohim Kingship Government into chaos. Seen today as the restless universe.

The Certified Elohim gods Prehistory recorded they came to Earth thousands of years ago, ushered in mankind's first New Age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment. By them the civilized hybrid human beings, are created in their image and after their likeness, and civilization flourished all over the Earth. This history is the only authentical apex, or paragon civilized record of the heterosexual species. The uncertified monotheism Christian Bible Adam and Eve Genesis 1 creation fictional story, has no academic validation, by anyone in the realm of human hybrid civilization. The monotheism bible was produced at the Nicene Council at Isnik Turkey, 325 A.D. Anno Domini by  the European Caucasoid. This name is denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned  sodomy racial group of humanoid. Which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe the offspring of homo Erectus and later Neanderthal.  Why people believe in the bible, is a very critical research. 

In this segment, Laura shares about how she and a group of prayer partners read through The LIST, and then came together over the phone to share one thing that deeply impacted them from reading this document. Then each person prayed a prayer of repentance. The spirit of repentance fell heavily upon the group as each woman shared something from The LIST that had deeply touched her heart. From that small beginning, Laura teamed up with Bob and Ray to write: 40 Days of Repentance: a “Companion Guide” to the LIST. She shares some of the amazing testimonies that are shared in the Companion Guide written by some of the guest authors. What is amazing is that some of the guest authors chose to write about (and then repent for) a period of history that literally involved their own historical family line: *a chapter about the Dreyfus affair, written by Nathalie Blackham *a chapter about the Crusades, written by Amy Mucklestone *a chapter about the Nicene Council, written by Amy Cogdell To get a copy of The LIST or 40 Days of Repentance: Companion guide to The LIST, go to: https://9-av.com/marketplace/ Sign the Declaration: https://9-av.com/sign-the-declaration-of-repentance/ Visit our website: https://9-av.com

Now I realize we are in the middle of our theology class, but I thought this would be a good time to take a quick break and put out my recent presentation from Restoration Fellowship’s 2019 Theological Conference, titled, “The Trinity before Nicea.”  Next week we’ll get back to theology and build up a biblical Read more about 175 Did Christians Believe in the Trinity before 325 (Council of Nicea)?[…]

“Arius, an Alexandrian presbyter, began teaching some time before 318 that the Logos, the Word of God who became man—Jesus Christ—is not the divine Son of God….but a created being—created out of nothing, like everything else, by God the Father….Soon after Emperor Constantine took up residence in Nicomedia, the eastern capital…he was chagrined to learn of this new controversy that was troubling the whole Eastern Church….[H]e summoned the largest council of bishops ever held up to that point. It opened on May 20, 325 in the city of Nicea, near Nicomedia.” “Emperor Theodosius the Great came to the imperial throne of the eastern part of the Roman Empire in 379….In 381 he called a Church council in Constantinople which would become to be known as the Second Ecumenical Council. This council condemned all forms of Arianizing doctrines by reaffirming the doctrinal statement or creed, which had been proclaimed at the Nicene Council. It also condemned Macedonianism, and proclaimed the divinity of the Holy Spirit in a paragraph added to the Creed of Nicea. It is this Creed, the combined work of the first two Ecumenical Councils, which orthodox Christians recite at baptismal services and the Divine Liturgy.” Thomas Hopko, The Orthodox Faith, vol. 3, Church History: Revised and Expanded by David C. Ford. (Yonkers, New York: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1981), pp. 49-50, 54-55.

In this episode we hear the rest (chapters 4-7) of On the Nicene Council (aka Defence of the Nicene Definition, De Decretis) by Athanasius of Alexandria.

Elder Moses Farrar is considered by many to be among the leading Biblicists biblical historian and lecturers. We have been greatly deceived as a people for nearly 500 years here in the Western Hemisphere – from 1517-1865, to the present. It is time for the Truth of The Almighty and Most High Creator to be re-established in the earth "There is an Overwhelming Presence of African People & Places In the Bible," & "The Nicene Council of 325 A.D." Hear how Roman Emperor Constantine signed into law the "changing" of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday by the Roman Catholic Church   JOIN US IN DETROIT ROBERT X.. WILL BE IN DETROIT, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2017 AT 1:00 PM EST... NANDI CAFE...12511 WOODWARD AVE, HIGHLAND MICHIGAN..313-865-1288

With this episode we continue our series on the 4th-century creed-producing councils of catholic bishops.

A Christian Muslim convert sues an Oklahoman church after being tortured, Tim Lambeisis of As I Lay Dying admits to faking Christianity after being convicted of attempted murder, why are they planning another Nicene Council and then we reveal our top 10 favorite Bible stories.