Nicene Creed

will be discussed later. It can be ascertained, though, that Arius and his followers did not put the Son on the same level as the Father. William Haugaard emphasized this point well when he wrote, “the primary distinction between the arians and the nicenes lay in arian insistence that whatever divinity Christ might possess, it was not the full Godhead of the Unoriginate.” This was to affirm the majesty of God the Father as well as to affirm God’s…

Crash Course Discussion Questions and Reflection Crash Course World History: Fall of Rome? 1. The argument that the Roman Empire did not fall until the 15th century was the most significant topic discussed in the video because it sheds light on the differences between the eastern and western roman empire. Although the Roman Empire was divided in half and the city of Rome was overtaken by Germanic peoples, it continued to exist in the form of the Byzantine Empire. People of the Byzantine Empire…

Let us now examine the Lutheran Churches of America and what this Protestant denomination of the Roman Catholic Church expresses as the plan, path, and doctrine of Salvation, or Soteriology? The third largest group of Christianity in the United States according to the US Census Bureau is the Lutheran faith. The Lutheran Church first established its presence in the United States of America in the Colony of New York (New Amsterdam) in the 1640s [28]. Since this date, the Lutheran church has grown…

Evil, the absence of God, can be found anywhere in the world in which pain, suffering, and in all that is bad in the world and in people. Such evil could be summed up in three categories, poverty, war, and sickness and pollution. The reason it can be summed up so simply into these categories is because for the most part the different aspects of evil can be found linked to one of these categories such as greed. As my mother would say about watching scary movies when I was a kid, “Fear is not a…

(Jacobsen 7). I attended a mass at St. John 's Catholic Church and a service at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, and the similarities and differences that I observed were extremely intriguing. Both services recite similar prayers, like the Nicene Creed and Our Father, and they celebrate the Eucharist during mass. While the Orthodox Church is demographically Greek, the Catholic Church represents a large white population, and they both show incredible hospitality toward newcomers. The…

them which made people upset. Also, there were some riots. During this time there was a controversy, on whether Jesus of Nazareth did all the things the Bible claims he did. So, Constantine called a council and settled this controversy, called the Nicene Creed. After Constantine made Christianity…

Additionally, the founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Charles Taze Russell, taught that the council of Nicaea, which condemned Arius , marked the beginning of the great apostasy about which the Apostle Paul warned in 2 Thessalonians 2. The Nicene Creed had anathematized Arius and his…

This is when the Nicene Creed was commissioned, and God the Father and God the Son were announced to be equally divine. Soon after this council meeting though, many of the priests who denounced Arius, began to follow his view. There were three dominant and not theologically invalid reasons that this was. As stated previously, homoousios was a prominent word used in the Creed, and a large part of the Creed hinged upon this word. What this word meant and how it…

significance of creeds in worship is discussed…

"Baptism" Can Salvation Be Attained without Baptism?; In the Nicene Creed it clearly states " I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins." And also Jesus said, "I solemnly assure you, no one can enter into Gods kingdom without being begotten of water and Spirit" (John 3:5). There are various other quotes saying this, but as you can see above it is clear it says you cannot enter unto Gods kingdom without getting baptism. Since the fall of Adam and Eve we have…