Comments by "Montaser" (@montaser9985) on "History Summarized: Byzantine Empire — Beginnings" video.

  1. The current mainstream teaching in Christianity is that God is a coequal, coeternal, one-substance trinity, and that Jesus Christ is God. This doctrine is considered by many as the cornerstone of Christianity, but where did this doctrine come from? Three centuries after Christ the corrupt emperor Constantine forced the minority opinion of the trinity upon the council of Nicea. The Christian church went downward from there; in fact some of the creeds and councils actually contradict each other. The council of Nicea 325 AD said that "Jesus Christ is God," the council of Constantinople 381 AD said that "the Holy Spirit is God," the council of Ephesus 431 AD said that "human beings are totally depraved," the council of Chalcedon 451 AD said that "Jesus Christ is both man and God." If you follow the logic here then first you have Jesus Christ as God, then you have man totally depraved, and then you have Jesus Christ as man and God. During the first three centuries, Christians did not believe that Jesus Christ was coequal, and coeternal with God, or that he was God the Son, they believed that Jesus Christ was subordinate to God, and that he had a beginning, that he was born. Those that believed otherwise were the exception. The modern doctrine of the Trinity is not found in any document or relic belonging to the Church of the first three centuries, so far as any remains or any record of them are preserved, coming down from early times, are, as regards this doctrine an absolute blank.
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