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| Q: | Concerning the Nicene Creed: According to the Da Vinci Code Book, it is the birth of Christianity. Where men made up the Christian faith. Belief in a Triune God,etc. Why did the church meet at Nicea and write the Nicene Creed. Could the Church provide some of the history on this? | ||||||
| A: | Remember that "The Da Vinci Code" is a novel and not history. It is not even a historical novel, because it falsifies the history surrounding the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed. According to the Bible the Second Person of the Trinity has been God from eternity. He became truly human without ceasing to be God. The writers of the New Testament believed this. The earliest worship forms of the Christian Church confessed this. The baptismal creeds (e.g. The Apostle's Creed) and the writings of church fathers in the second, third, and fourth centuries (before the Council of Nicea) expressed this truth. The Council of Nicea (325) and the Council of Constantinople (381) gave brief and clear form to (they summarized) this faith in the words of what we call the Nicene Creed: Jesus Christ is "God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the Father." The Councils and the Creed were not creating or inventing new doctrine or a new religion. They were confessing what the church (founded on Pentecost about 30 AD) believed from the beginning. | ||||||
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