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The disagreements regarding the nature of Jesus all came about long after his death in the political sense as well. Power was very obviously a factor. And, what about the various Hadiths in Islam. Don't different sects disagree about authenticity and the way that Muhammad lived?
When you can name a thing, you can control a thing. Muhammed was a man. Just a man. he can be known, defined, and therefore controlled. Jesus has always been somewhat different. Jesus, apparently, is more than "just a man," is larger than our ability to define him, and therefore cannot be pinned down to our control.
No it isn't. Which was the whole reason for the Council of Nicea in the first place.
I believe the council of Nicea was convened after an apostasy took root in the Christian faith following the death of the apostles. By that time, 325 C.E., apostate notions had infiltrated, just as the Bible foretold. (2 Thessalonians 2:3,4) It is not that the Bible is unclear, but rather the unscriptural lies taught by those described in the Bible as "oppressive wolves [that] will enter in among you and will not treat the flock with tenderness, and from among you yourselves men will rise and speak twisted things to draw away the disciples after themselves." (Acts 20:29,30)
What you believe is immaterial. What actually happened is important. Your scary apologetic simply doesn't add up to rational thinking or treatment of either the texts or the known history.
A set of rules, requirements, or rituals which one feels they must do in order to please God (in the case of Christianity and Abraham based religions) or to feel spiritual or reach enlightenment in the case of other religious/spiritual paths.
A Christian in name only is someone who practices religion...the Christian religion or some pseudo variation, but who does not know Jesus Christ personally as their Savior and has not submitted their life to Christ alone, having died spiritually and been raised to new life in Christ.
That is pretty darn ambiguous though ... "dying spiritually", "submitted their life to Christ alone", "raised into new life"? Can you provide a more specific explanation of what these things mean in practice, as it's very easy to say things like this without having to provide specificity.
Exacly. If it was clear, it wouldnt lead to the persecuations of Arian followers and Nestorians. They had different view of Jesus pbuh.
Sodom and Gommorah getting cosmically zapped for breaking a few rules wasn't enough reason?
Muslims claim that the Koran is clear, yet Shiites persecute Sunnis...
1) They weren't punished; the "zapping" was a consequence of their actions. electricity and circuitry doesn't punish people. But there are consequences for grabbing a live electrical wire.
Is that even a serious question? Of course not.
Nope, just wondering.
So, if you are successful, thank God. If you are unsuccessful, kick yourself. Doesn't that seem a bit counterintuitive to you? If our subjective effort makes a difference, and from all evidence I have it does, shouldn't we put responsibility on ourselves for both the bad and the good?
