To: colorcountry
In chapter 16 it implicitly taps into popular assumptions about Nicaea and then says that “false Christianity” (that the “Roman emperor adopted”) “taught that God was a being without form or substance.”
A helpful diagnostic: the Nicene Council is to heretical sects as garlic is to vampires.
52 posted on
02/15/2010 12:01:55 PM PST by
Lee N. Field
(Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth.)
To: Lee N. Field
Great diagnostic. I’ll remember it!
53 posted on
02/15/2010 12:04:52 PM PST by
colorcountry
(A faith without truth is not true faith.)
To: Lee N. Field; colorcountry
the Nicene Council is to heretical sects as garlic is to vampires.
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To: Lee N. Field
A helpful diagnostic: the Nicene Council is to heretical sects as garlic is to vampires. Oh SNAP!
61 posted on
02/15/2010 12:50:09 PM PST by
greyfoxx39
("The Economy Is So Bad, Even 'Rosy Scenario' Lost Her Job"-Jim Geraghty)
To: Lee N. Field
the Nicene Council is to heretical sects as garlic is to vampires.
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I like that!
99 posted on
02/15/2010 8:14:18 PM PST by
reaganaut
(ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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