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Beh, not much to say about it. It's main point is the danger they saw from Protestantism. They tried to condemn its principles and doctrines and they failed. :D Not too much, i'm afraid. He's way before "my time". I only know the well-known about him. :lol: Nice way to put everything you said...

What would you like to know about it ? :D My favorite decision from this councel is when they decided that the Roman-Catholic Church is the only one that has the right to interpret the Bible and any Christian who won't accept church's interpretation of the Bible will be proclaimed a heretic...

And if Juve Rev tells me that these things about the trinity were writen in the Bible, he should ask himself if there was a bible in Constantine's time and when was the bible canonised, when did they decide which books will be included in the bible ? If Arianism won in Nicaea then in today's...

Haha, ok. Well, the ruler is God's representative on Earth while the church comes from Jesus of Nazareth. It means.... The Ruler=God (the Father) while the Church= The Son. If the father and the son are of the same substance (they are equal) then the church and the emperor are equal. But if...

Well....who is God's representative on earth and who comes from Jesus of Nazareth?

Nah... think about it.....why is it so important for the church the father and the son to be of the same nature, to be equal ? Why is it bad for them if the son is only a creation, which will put him under the father in the hierarchy.

True. Do you know why did they do it ? Where did they see the danger ? (of course, they said that the Arianism is dangerous to the salvation of souls, but that wasn't the real danger they saw in it) What was the church getting if the council of Nicaea declared that the son was of the same...

Byzantine is my thing and the Byzantine empire naturally goes together with the late Roman form of government, the Greek culture and the Ortodox Christianity ;) Since Juve Rev is a Greek-Ortodox Christian i'd enjoy a chat with him :P

I'm interested if you're familiar with the Arian Controversy, with the situation in the 4th century AD and with the influence of one pagan emperor in your belief in the trinity and his influence in the first uniform Christian doctrine ? Do you know what does the co-eternaty between the father...

You really believe in the trinity ?