Nicene Creed

Classical Rome was dominated by their ideas and institutions of law. The beliefs in God’s law or church law started out as an idea and ended up as an institution. The Judean section of the Roman Empire formulated God’s law. They accepted a “covenant, or pact between Yahweh, their God, and his people to obey the law, called the ten commandments.” These commandments were written in the Torah, the 5 Books of Moses. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew that followed the Judaic message, but focused on…

Some of their disagreements were over the Pope’s authority, the addition of “and the son” to the Nicene Creed, and the celibacy of priests. Before the split of the church, both the West and the East were under one church, Christianity. The Pope had authority over the West and the four Patriarchs of the East had authority over the East. However, there were…

“Our Lord Jesus Christ founded one Church, in unity, undivided. So it stands there can only be one true Church, "which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim 3:15). The announcement of the Kingdom of God by Our Lord was the beginning of the Christian Church, a new Heaven and a new Earth.” In the following paper I will explain factors that contributed to the split between the Eastern and Western church known as the Great Schism. I will also explain how as a…

If we are not preaching Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father; our preaching is not Christian. Some churches and people for whatever reason attempt to eliminate Christ’s presence from their preaching. It is Christ who told us, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” Jesus is in time what God the Father is in eternity. Our preaching is not authentic when we don’t exalt and lift up the name of Jesus in our preaching. We have forgotten that Christ is the one who bleed and died for our…

tolerant and he persecuted the Christians. However, once Constantine took over, he converted to Christianity and ended the maltreatment of Christians. Constantine made an effort to standardize Christianity in the Council of Nicea, which produced the Nicene Creed. Having a uniform religion greatly aided the Roman Empire in that people could practice it freely and openly. The Islamic Empire was also aided by their policies on religion. In the Islamic Empire, the main religion was Islam, but they…

Religion played a huge role in the western civilization. It's what brought countries together and separated them. Religion has had major blows to the western civilizations like the ancients Egyptians and Mesopotamians to the Greeks and Romans, and eventually the Germanic Tribes that moved south and the rise of Islam. The First is Ancient Egypt were Pharaoh thought that he was a god in a humans body and also was polytheism. They believed each pharaoh had a divine spark in them. This spark was…

Results of Conversion After defeating Maxentius and gaining control of Rome, Italy and North Africa, Constantine meet with Licinius in 313 to enter into alliance and consolidate his power. Together they would establish a policy of religious toleration. The Edict of Milan was the “Magna Charta of religious liberty,”[15] and it benefitted Christians in the following ways: 1) It allowed and even obligated Christians and non-Christians alike to preserve and uphold their own faiths and assemblies,…

Unifying doctrines are an authoritative response to the chaotic storms of controversy created by heterodoxy. A Heterodoxy, (literally meaning ‘different’ doctrine) is a doctrine that deviates from the norm. Heterodoxy operates in dichotomy to Orthodoxy, which are the generally accepted ideals of a society (normative values). It also describes doctrines of competing truths, thesis’ and anti-thesis’. Society in its base form is a group of individuals that interact but have different values and…

My best friend, Alyssa, identifies as Greek Orthodox, so, over Spring Break, I attended a service with her. She belongs to Assumption Greek Orthodox church in Des Peres. Greek Orthodox is a denomination within Christianity. In the past, I have been to several Greek Festivals and large gatherings with her, so I was slightly familiar with the Greek atmosphere and culture. At the festivals there was a lot of Greek food, crafts, and dancing. The people are extremely proud of their Greek heritage and…

to his followers through covenants. Jesus is believed in with the Islamic faith and Christianity, in Islam an example of this is in the Quran, "(Jesus) was a prophet, sent by Allah and born of the Virgin Mary, but not divine (Quran 5:17)." The Nicene Creed states that, "The second person of the Trinity and born of the Virgin Mary. "...true God from true God". Islam and Christianity both have an understanding of hell, this is supported by both of their holy bibles. In the Quran, "A place of…