https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1872&p=28278#p28278 ----------------------------------- Visitor Friday, 27 January 2006, 10:21 PM ----------------------------------- I am so amazed that so many who consider themselves the be very religious and educated seen to never have heard about the Council of Nicaea. The was held by the order of the Roman Emperor the unify the various christian sects of that time. in the 3rd Century A.D. The most powerful of the leaders of the Christians were ordered to attend. In the process the various texts and ideas were examined by them. Each was accepted or rejected by a majority vote. Something like this: Was Jesus a man who was possessed by an angel it was the angel. When crucified, the angel abandoned the man to die. After the resurrection it was the angel who was seen? Vote YEA or NAY. Count the votes, The NEYs have it, rejected. Was Jesus the son of God, Vote YEA or NAY. Count the votes, The YEAs have it, accepted. Similar votes were taken for inclusion or exclusion of each book of the bible. Of the several hundred Gospels only four survived, after serious editing and redacting, still they survived with contradictory information. The resulting unified Christianity was named Catholic. Any who did not agree with the new unified creed were called heretic and at first forced to convert or die. The purpose of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was to identify and kill heretics. Erenda, from what you have said about their beliefs, both of your fanatic teachers would have been examined by the inquisitors and declared heretics and burned at the stake to purify their souls by the fire. One of the heresies was that Jesus remained on Earth rather than ascending and he traveled to other lands to the east, to continue his teaching while his wife, Mary, traveled with their children to the provinces of Iberia, Galicia, and Britannia. At one time, to be a christian you had to be of the Jewish fate first. Christianity at that time was just another of sect of judaism. That didn't change until after the end of the second Jewish revolt against Rome, the destruction of the second temple and the fall of Masada about the year 67AD. Something that I bet you fanatic teachers don't know is the real name of Jesus. Jesus was not his name, it is a Romanized version of his name. For example, the real names of Jesus is Joshua, of Mary is Miriam, of Lazarus is Eleazar. Oh, did you know that most christian prayer end with the invocation of the name of an ancient egyptian god? Rayera, the Roman part of Roman Catholic church comes from the inheritance of Emperor Constantine. It is said that, he gave the Roman Empire to the Holy See. Making the Pope the new Roman Emperor, who in exchange declared the the entire world belonged to the Roman Empires, he then delegated his powers as emperor back to Constantine to rule the empire in his name. It is from this that coronation of ruling royals was derived and why opposing a royal was considered so bad, and it was the beginning of feudalism.