Thursday, May 20, 2021

The Day the Trinity Doctrine Was Invented on This Day in History


This Day in History: The First Council of Nicaea started on this day in 325 A.D. One of the main arguments to settle was whether Christ was God, or subordinate to God. Athanasius argued that Christ was God, and Arius argued that he wasn't. The "Arian Controversy" often led to bloody battles in the streets. Athanasius would win this round and Arius would be exiled. Three years later, Constantine recalled Arius from exile. In 335 Constantine now sided with Arius and exiled Athanasius. Two years after that, the new emperor recalled Athanasius. In 341 two councils are held to produce a formal doctrine of faith to oppose the Nicene Creed. In 351 a second anti-Nicene council was held in Sirmium. In 353 a council was held at Aries that was directed against Athanasius. This would keep happening until 381 when the First Council of Constantinople was held to review the controversy since Nicaea. Emperor Theodosius the Great establishes the creed of Nicaea as the standard of the realm. The Nicene Creed was re-evaluated and accepted with the addition of clauses on the Holy Spirit and other matters.

However, through the ages there were always people who sided with the Arian "heresy" that denied that Christ was co-equal with the Father, men such as Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, Milton, Locke, Priestley, and many others who paid for this belief with their lives, like Michael Servetus, Giordano Bruno etc.

Download: When Jesus Became God by Ridhard E. Rubenstein
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-fVoMnUsaDlQlaRnI

Download: How Jesus Became God by Bart Ehrman
https://archive.org/details/HowJesusBecameGodTheExaltBartD

Download: How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?: Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus by Larry W. Hurtado
https://tinyurl.com/ty6n6ot

See also The Terrible Death of Michael Servetus
https://newworldtranslation.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-terrible-death-of-michael-servetus.html
Unitarian History by John Hayward 1860

https://newworldtranslation.blogspot.com/2018/12/johann-sylvan-unitarian-martyr.html
The Trinity NO PART of Primitive Christianity, by James Forrest A.M. 1836

https://newworldtranslation.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-trinity-no-part-of-primitive.html
The Interrogation of Unitarian Anabaptist Martyr Herman van Vlekwijk


A Catholic Priest Declares the Trinity Doctrine "Opposed to Human Reason."

Edward Wightman (Unitarian Martyr)



The Absurdity of the Trinity Doctrine: An Anthology

The Impersonality of the Holy Spirit

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