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The document discusses the events leading up to the emergence of the Nicene Creed in the 4th century AD. It describes how the Roman Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 AD. However, a priest named Arius began preaching that Jesus was a created being rather than divine. This caused significant debate and divisions. In response, Constantine called the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD to address the issue. The Council rejected Arius' teachings and expressed the orthodox views about God, Jesus, and the church in the Nicene Creed, which became the standard statement of Christian faith.

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Project Work: Based On "The Early Christological Debates That Led To The Emergence of Nicene Creed"

The document discusses the events leading up to the emergence of the Nicene Creed in the 4th century AD. It describes how the Roman Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 AD. However, a priest named Arius began preaching that Jesus was a created being rather than divine. This caused significant debate and divisions. In response, Constantine called the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD to address the issue. The Council rejected Arius' teachings and expressed the orthodox views about God, Jesus, and the church in the Nicene Creed, which became the standard statement of Christian faith.

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Project work

Based on

“The early Christological debates that led to the emergence of Nicene Creed”

Subject: Person and work of Jesus, the Christ

Submitted by: Duanchuingam Gonmei. B.D. IV (B).

The Early Christology debates that led to the emergence of Nicene Creed

Nicene Creed also called the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, this creed is a statement of the
orthodox (standard accepted) faith of the early Christian church in opposition to certain heresies
(teachings contradicting the norm), especially Arianism.

In the year AD 313, the Edict of Milan by the Roman Emperor of Constantine finally legalized
Christianity and allowed to practice also granted full tolerance to all religions, including
Christianity, marking the Roman Empire’s final abandonment of the policies of persecution of
Christians. After a year passed. the greatest doctrinal challenge to the church arose from within
it. Arius, a priest in Alexandria, Eygpt, start preaching that Jesus was not but only a created
being. He continue if God begat Jesus, then Jesus had an origin. If Jesus did not share in the
same divine essence with the Father, then Jesus was a lesser god.

In AD 321, local council declared Arius as Heretic (False teaching). Arius move to Palestine and
gained larger followers and over the course of the next few years. Now the debate became so
intense that he gained the attention of Emperor Constantine.

Constantine who had just unified The Empire did not want anything that would threaten division.
He saw (Constantine) the debate between the Christianity and the Arian as a threat to the stability
of the empire. The Arian controversy threatened to divide Christianity and bring chaos to the
Empire, so with that debate the question about the Christology of Jesus Christ. What is the nature
of Jesus Christ? is he fully God or what? These were the question that the council tried to deal

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on. So with that chaos between these two; Constantine called together a council of the leaders of
the church throughout the Roman Empire in Nicaea in AD 325 NICENE CREED.

The Council overwhelming voted against Arian teachings (nearly 300-3). The council expressed
its views about God, Jesus, and the church in the Nicene Creed.

After the creed of AD 325, a heresy about the Holy Spirit arouse as a follow-up to Arianism. In
response, further additions were made to the creed at the Council of Constantinople in AD 381.

With the exception of one small addition made by the Western Church (Catholic/Protestant),
called the filoque, in AD 589, *2, (shown below in brackets) the creed is universally accepted by
all Christians.

The creed, in its AD 381 format, represents the essence of ecumenical (universal) Christian
doctrine because it is the most complete creed that all orthodox Christians agree on. Nicaea at a
meeting of the representative of the Christian congregations scattered around. It is a summary of
the Christian faith. So I believe that through this debate Christianity emerged after this niceces
creed meeting. This is what I understand.

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