There are two great lies about the Council of Nicea, that the founders of another christian religion later gave as excuse for hijacking the church of Christ to their own rule.
Lie #1: That the leaders at Nicea found it necessary to go outside of Scripture to refute the Arian heresy, because they determined Scripture was 'insufficient' to defend itself alone.
The leaders at Nicea did not, but rather kept to the plain reading of several Scriptures to reject the new and false reading of Arius:
The Word was God and was made flesh (John 1), Jesus Christ is the true God (I John 5), and He and the Father are one (John 10, 17:22)
Arius taught that Jesus was not God, and that Christ was a created being in the body of a man, by reading certain Scriptures with a carnal mind:
The Father is greater than the Son (John 10:29, 14:28), and all power was given to the Son by the Father. (Matthew 28)
Lie #2: That the leaders of Nicea also confirmed for the first time what was Scripture. The writings of the prophets and apostles were not acknowledged as Scripture of God, until they were made as such at Nicea.
I.e. their writings and books were well known, but they were not Scripture of authority of God, until Nicean leaders said so.
They did no such thing. All the writings and books of the prophets and apostles were already fully known by the end of the 1st Century. No one doubted that they were Scripture.
Afterward, many writings and books of other 'outside sources' were offered as Scripture equal to that of the prophets and apostles, and these were all rejected by comparing them to the known Scriptures already in hand.
These outside sources of writings and oral traditions were, and are, the would be false apostles and teachers and antichrists that were warned against by the apostles.
Conclusion: Those that would later found another christian religion, did so by lying about the leaders of Nicea, whose open practice was to rely on scriptures only as the authority and source of God's Word, and entirely sufficient to defend the faith of Jesus against all outside heresies.
These founders outside of the prophets and apostles, then proceeded to justify adding their own outside traditions, unconfirmed by Scripture, to be equal to Scripture for doctrine of God.
Since they supposed themselves to be able to determine what is Scripture, they then authorized themselves to determine what could accompany Scripture:
The puffed-up librarians made a hostile takeover of the authority of God that is found in Scripture only.
To this day, they lie about Scripture, that it is insufficient, not only to defend itself against heresy, but also to 'fully teach' the doctrine of God in Christ Jesus.
Lie #1: That the leaders at Nicea found it necessary to go outside of Scripture to refute the Arian heresy, because they determined Scripture was 'insufficient' to defend itself alone.
The leaders at Nicea did not, but rather kept to the plain reading of several Scriptures to reject the new and false reading of Arius:
The Word was God and was made flesh (John 1), Jesus Christ is the true God (I John 5), and He and the Father are one (John 10, 17:22)
Arius taught that Jesus was not God, and that Christ was a created being in the body of a man, by reading certain Scriptures with a carnal mind:
The Father is greater than the Son (John 10:29, 14:28), and all power was given to the Son by the Father. (Matthew 28)
Lie #2: That the leaders of Nicea also confirmed for the first time what was Scripture. The writings of the prophets and apostles were not acknowledged as Scripture of God, until they were made as such at Nicea.
I.e. their writings and books were well known, but they were not Scripture of authority of God, until Nicean leaders said so.
They did no such thing. All the writings and books of the prophets and apostles were already fully known by the end of the 1st Century. No one doubted that they were Scripture.
Afterward, many writings and books of other 'outside sources' were offered as Scripture equal to that of the prophets and apostles, and these were all rejected by comparing them to the known Scriptures already in hand.
These outside sources of writings and oral traditions were, and are, the would be false apostles and teachers and antichrists that were warned against by the apostles.
Conclusion: Those that would later found another christian religion, did so by lying about the leaders of Nicea, whose open practice was to rely on scriptures only as the authority and source of God's Word, and entirely sufficient to defend the faith of Jesus against all outside heresies.
These founders outside of the prophets and apostles, then proceeded to justify adding their own outside traditions, unconfirmed by Scripture, to be equal to Scripture for doctrine of God.
Since they supposed themselves to be able to determine what is Scripture, they then authorized themselves to determine what could accompany Scripture:
The puffed-up librarians made a hostile takeover of the authority of God that is found in Scripture only.
To this day, they lie about Scripture, that it is insufficient, not only to defend itself against heresy, but also to 'fully teach' the doctrine of God in Christ Jesus.
