In this week we talked
about councils and creeds. This is the first creed that the emperor ordered
because the emperor wanted the Rome to unify it and even the religion will be
unified within the Rome. This councils have great significant in our Christian
faiths. For God uses these people who were in the Council to formulate
Christian’s statement of faith. Early councils were not composed of perfect or
holy people. They were corrupt, murderer and also Christians were also there.
But through these councils we learned our mistakes and what doctrinal
statements to be changed.
I learned that in this council they selected three
members to write a creed and those were, Alexander he was the Pope, then
Atheanasius “defender of faith” and leontius. In their council they added a
statement of anathema it means that whenever a person does not follow the
following creed he or she is a heresy. And the result of this was Arianism
spread, people were forced to follow the council of Nicea by the Emperor
Constantine also one of this is the Pope exist as a church government. And the
church decisions determined by political authority rather than spiritual. I
learned one of the downside of this council is they added anathema of this
council. So this council is infallible and people should follow them. This is
where the problem comes because whenever there’s an error on this creed people
do not have a free choice but to follow it.
Even though past has
many mistakes and errors regarding their rules or in making decisions but God
uses it for good. God uses imperfect rules, standards or even people to
accomplish His divine plan for human being and even in small things. In this I
should not forget the wrong decisions and actions I did in the past but rather
I should learn from it.
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