Christianity Lost Its Way At The Council Of Nicea

 

I had long ago lost interest in the church history, but recently I have reflected on the fact that I really don't believe much in the Nicene Creed.

I believe in one God,

the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.   Amen.

Much more compact and makes far fewer assumptions.  Once I realized how little of the Creed I still supported I started looking at the Council of Nicea.  Please see 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxQCrdsFYNQ&t=184s

For some reason I can't make this link to to YouTube. 

I had long suspected that was the problem, those damned bloody interfering Romans!  Jesus  never ever intended to found a worldwide system of hegemonic domination.  Jesus returned to Palestine after more than a decade in India to spread the message of the Buddha to the people of Judea, but carefully nuanced to fit with the local Hebrew population.  It did not work out well in the end.

The message of universal connectivity and the acceptance of the oneness that is GDW was lost in the morass of Roman overlordship of the always unruly Jews.  By 325 CE an unholy alliance of power and politics had completely drowned out Jesus' actual message, replacing it it with one of abject obedience to the will of the Roman Catholic Church.

As with all things human, power corrupts.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Everything that has always been wrong with Christianity is still bloody wrong with it.  We still have mass panics like Rapture 2025 caused by idiotic interpretations of dubious scripture.  I just can not be a Nicene Christian anymore.  Hence my exploration of Gnosticism.