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Therefore, the doctrine deity of Christ, at the Council of Nicaea was argued for from Scripture since the Bible itself emphatically declared that Jesus was (is) is God. All one would needs to do is read De Incarnatione Verbi Dei ( On the Incarnation) to realize this fact (his references to Biblical texts are too many to number). The Athanasius's view was in opposition to the Arians', and Athanasius's view was one that was based largely on the extant manuscripts of the Bible at the time. Now, with regard to the ‘voting’ of Jesus’s deity at Nicaea the issue at hand was the doctrine espoused by the Arians (stemming from the views Arius). So for Dan Brown to flippantly declare that Jesus was never considered divine prior to Nicaea is patently false. Thus, before the council of Nicaea delat with the heresy of Arnianism, the issue of Jesus's deity was already being discussed and defended by early Church Fathers. Also, the Ebionites of the second century espoused the heresy appropriately called “Ebionism” which denied the divinity of Jesus (a view which was refuted by Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Origen). Irenaeus wrote Adversus Haereses which was, in part, an attack against the heresy of Docitism (denial of Jesus’ human nature) an heretical view held by Gnostics of the late first century and second century. Second, the Early Church Fathers prior to the council of Nicaea had already dealt with heretics and nay sayers regarding Jesus's deity. Now, I stress these passages for two reasons:ġ) Here are direct claims that Jesus is God.Ģ) This Gospel was written 200 years before the Council of Nicaea. We see this in the same chapter, verse 33, “.because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” Lastly in John's Gospel, the first chapter, the first verse, John, the author of the Gospel clearly declares that Jesus is God. Also, in John’s Gospel chapter 10 verse 30 Jesus declares that “He and the Father are one.” This is a direct claim to deity which the people around Jesus at the time (in this text) knew that he was making about himself. The cured blind man bows to Jesus and cries out, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshipped Jesus. For example, the Gospel of John chapter 9 verse 38 (and in the passages prior to this verse) describes a man who was cured of his blindness by Jesus. The reason the above quotes are just plain false can be outlined as follows:First, the manuscripts of the New Testament are replete with examples of men bowing to Jesus and worshipping Him as God, or declaring Jesus to be God. What is more, I am tired of hearing people declare, “This is merely a novel, it’s not intended to be fact.” Well, once again, as I said in an earlier post, the ‘Fact Page" declares "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." Therefore, Brown is treating his historical comments as fact, so to that end I’ll respond. In fact, these are so false I am almost embarrassed for Dan Brown.
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These quotes taken directly from the novel on page 233 are, simply put, just plain false. a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless.
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until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet. “At this gathering ,” Teabing said, “many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon. The actual comments from the novel are as follows: Therefore, for the first three centuries of the Church, Jesus was believed to be a mere mortal man.” No one before this date ever believed that Jesus was divine. “At the Council of Nicaea, Constantine and the Church leaders (heavily influenced by Constantine’s power) voted that Jesus is Divine. In this second installment about Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code I’ll be tackling the below remarks made in Brown’s book on page 233.