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The council of Constantinople
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The Council of Constantinople main points
- The man-made trinity doctrine was mandated by law by the Roman emperor Theodosius.
- The trinity doctrine was a political move to help sway the pagans to enter the control of the church.
- The born again salvation plan of Jesus Christ is no longer taught or practiced.
The man-made trinity doctrine was mandated by the Roman Emperor Theodosius
The Council of Nicaea did not end the Godhead controversy which it had been called to clarify. By 327, Emperor Constantine had begun to regret the decisions that had been made at the Nicene Council. After murdering members of his own family for political maneuvering, he, for other political reasons, granted amnesty to the Arian leaders (who proposed that Jesus Christ was not divine and not the Son of God) and exiled Athanasius (who taught that Jesus was both all human and all God). Even during numerous exiles, Athanasius continued to be a vigorous defender of Christianity against Arianism. The Cappadocia leaders also took up the political fight; their Trinitarian discourse was influential in the council at Constantinople.
The trinity doctrine was a political move
Theodosius ignored the fact that the Bible does not ever refer to God as a "trinity". He, for the political reasoning of attaining more control over the church by bringing a doctrine that was accepted and practiced by the pagans of his kingdom, made it mandatory to believe this doctrine of a trinity godhead. Theodosius removed or imprisoned all who continued believing what the Apostolic Church originally taught. He also banned those who believed the Apostolic doctrine from building churches and expelled them from the cities if they caused "trouble". In many cases, the preachers of the Apostolic doctrine were killed. (20. Charles Freeman's AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State) Because the emperor wanted to combine the Christians with the pagans, the council of Constantinople was called by Theodosius in 381 AD to enforce the trinity doctrine. This man-made doctrine of the trinity, which stated three persons in one God, co-eternal and co-equal, although there is no Biblical Scripture to support it, was now issued by decree upon the Christian Church. (21. Canney Encyclopedia (page 53); Encyclopedia of Religions) Though it was originally rejected at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, the trinity doctrine was pushed and then forcibly embraced because Theodosius saw a way to consolidate his political control of the church. Theodosius believed that he would gain the favor of the pagans of his kingdom by pushing this pagan doctrine and thereby strengthen his control. This is officially when the non Biblical pagan doctrine of the three co-eternal persons in one God concept was brought into the Roman Catholic denomination. The early church had always baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission (deliverance) of sins until the development of the trinity doctrine; afterward they were baptized in the titles, i.e. Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (22. A History of Christian Doctrine, Volume 1) The New International Encyclopedia says this about this doctrine: The trinity doctrine. The Catholic doctrine is this: We worship one trinity, but there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost, the glory equal – the majesty co-eternal. Of course this doctrine is not found anywhere in the Scriptures. Most modern theology does not seek to find it in the Old Testament. A series of five more councils (a total of seven) began to introduce more and more man-made doctrines. At the time of the Reformation, the Protestant Church kept the doctrine of the trinity without serious examination.” (Vol. 22, Page 476.)
The born again salvation plan of Jesus Christ is no longer taught or practiced.
The Roman Catholic church no longer taught the Biblical salvation plan taught by Jesus Christ and the Apostles but, rather replaced it with the Nicene Creed . Theodosius issued an edict proclaiming that the only acceptable way of being Christian was to acknowledge Father, Son and Holy Spirit to be of equal majesty. All other formulas would be considered heretical and their holders subject to punishment by the state.(23. Charles Freeman's AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State) Presumably, as stated earlier, he felt that only by imposing doctrinal unity could he keep his position. The problem is that this unified doctrine was wrong according to what the Bible, Jesus and the Apostles taught.