RE: Happy Easter!
April 15, 2017 at 4:51 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2017 at 4:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 14, 2017 at 8:18 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:Why would you defy the emperors word? You already planned on throwing an easter party. That's what I;ve been trying to explain to you, lol. It wasn;t conversion -=to easter- by the sword, and it wasn;t some sort of back and forth between the common folk or conquered folk and religious authorities. There was going to be an easter party, the early church needed to entrench itself in what traditions weren't going to go away. The same thing happened with "Christmas".(April 14, 2017 at 7:57 pm)Khemikal Wrote: There wasn't any forcing by the sword with regards to easter. Nor was there any sort of communal back and forth with the people about this wherein "the natives" and their rulers reached some sort of settlement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
Quote:Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Christological issue of the divine nature of the God the Son and his relationship to God the Father,[3] the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed, establishing uniform observance of the date of Easter,[7] and promulgation of early canon law.[4][8][/url]
Quote:This synod had been charged with investigation of the trouble brought about by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arian_controversy]Arian controversy in the Greek-speaking east.[16]If I was to defy the Emperor's word; what would my fate be?
That is conversion by the sword.
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