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Chapter 2 - 2nd Council - Nicea

2nd Ecumenical Council 325 CE

1st Council of Nicea

Summary

Date	325
Called by	Constantine I
Presided by	Mytrophanos of Constantinople
Attendance	250-318 (only five from Western Church)
Key topics	Arianism, celebration of Passover (Easter), Miletian schism, validity of baptism by heretics, lapsed Christia
Documents & Statements	Original Nicene Creed and about 20 decrees

Background

Some 277 years after the 1st Ecumenical Council, the Nazarene Church was virtually non-existent, the saviour religions of Zoroastrianism, Mithra, Krishna dominated- along with "christian" groups such as the Paulinists, Boethusians, Ebionites and Tertullians.

Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305) has tried unsuccessfully to bring these warring factions into some kind of unified religious framework, without much success. However, under Emperor Constantine I, a new strategy was formed to "force" the various cults to unify under one creed.

Contrary to the revisionist claims of christian churches that the concept of christians has existed since the time of Nero (1st Century), there is no credible independent evidence of the word being used prior to the universal unified religion created by Constantine via Nicaea in 325.

Nor does there exist one single piece of credible untampered original evidence to prove that Rome even had a functioning "christian" type sect at the time of the Council of Nicaea. In fact, the evidence is overwhelming that precisely at the time Constantine created christianity as the official religion of the Empire, Rome was undergoing a pagan revival on Vatican Hill as a major pagan shrine.

As to the proceedings and truth of what actually happened at Nicaea, it appears that at least one copy of these historic events still existed up until a few hundred years ago. We know this to be fact as several chistian historians and figures have all made reference to having read the transcripts of Nicaea and how these people were loud, rude, ignorant, hocus pocus merchants, hardly fit to be called bishops.

Arrest and forcible detention to Nicaea

While these key original documents have been destroyed or hidden away, what is clear is that Constantine didn't simple invite the various leaders of religious cults together- he ordered their arrest and forcible transport to the conference.

Nor were the proceedings of the council merely about questions of christian philosophy as to whether was Jesus or not? In fact the council was responsible for creating christianity, not the other way around.

Nor did the Bishop (Patriarch) of Rome even exist at the time. Again, one of many obvious and grotesque frauds of the Roman Catholic Church in claiming superiority. In fact the most senior cleric at Nicaea of a Jesus related cult was the Boethusian patriarch (later known as Eastern Orthodox Church).

This is why to this day, many millions of orthodox christians rightly consider the Patriarch of Constantinople as the true line of Popes of the whole of the christian church.

Proceedings of the Council

It appears the proceedings of the Council did not go well. For the most part, the "detainees" refused to properly debate different views, instead acting like wild animals. It was only after a direct and clear threat by Constantine on the last few days of the Council when he took direct control that any order appeared.

The question of whether Jesus was really the Son of God or not was not debated, contrary to legend. This is because, avote on who would be the official "messiah" god of the new Holy Roman Empire was not decided until the end.

In the end Hesus Christ is both the combination of the ancient myths of Celtic and Asia and the complete start of a new religion. To hide the fact that christianity was acually created at Nicaea, the authorities have used the claimed debate over divinity as a deliberate "misdirection" for centuries.

The Nicene creed

The Council agreed on a unanimous statement of faith that is fundamental to all christians called the Nicene Creed:

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father;
by whom all things were made [both in heaven and on earth];
who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man;
he suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended into heaven;
from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
And in the Holy Ghost.
But those who say: 'There was a time when he was not;' and 'He was not before he was made;' and 'He was made out of nothing,' or 'He is of another substance' or 'essence,' or 'The Son of God is created,' or 'changeable,' or 'alterable' — they are condemned by the holy catholic and apostolic Church.

The Christian Passover (Easter)

Another result of the council was an agreement on the date of the Christian Passover (Pascha in Greek; Easter in modern English), the most important feast of the ecclesiastical calendar. The council decided in favour of celebrating Jesus on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox, independently of the Bible's Hebrew Calendar, and authorized the Bishop of Alexandria to announce annually the exact date to his fellow bishops.

This separated the historic date of the crucifixtion from 14 Nisan by the Hebrew calendar and thereafter fixed it as a movable date. Those that refused this unilateral change and still wanted to celebrate on the true date of the crucifixtion of Jesus were condemned and excommunicated.

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