Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/03/06 12:34 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad >On 2/3/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote: > >> Yes, and it only took the Catholic Church 800 years or so after that to >> decide whether Jesus had "become" god, or had just "gone to be with" god. >> (A debate that still come up from time to time, actually.) >> > >I've been reading up a bit on the history of the Church, and it was a >lot earlier than 800 that that was decided by the Catholic Church. >The first council of Nicea was 325, for example. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed Well, yes. I may be guilty of exaggerating. It was only 3 centuries instead of 8. But, as you say, this issue continued to be somewhat devisive in the church after this point, anyway. >As you say, there has been more than a little disagreement, both then >and now, and skimming the above page (and subsidiary pages), the issue >is rather confused, as one might well expect. > >But the Catholic Church and most mainstream Christians follow the >Nicene Creed, which states outright that Jesus was "true God from true >God". Which is... well, best not get into theological arguments here. Indeed. I didn't mean to spark a religious debate or anything. Majikjon