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mistakes about the relationship of Logos to the Son of god
- Logos = Son of god but subordinate to father
- logos different from the son of god
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split from church
- council in Alexandria 320 excommunicates Arious
- council in Antioch 324
- express the correct teaching
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Constantine emperor invites bishops
- many bishops wounded-martyrs
- they had others as helpers and secretaries
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Arius
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Son of god is created in time
- Son is not God
- son is not co-eternal with father
- introduce TIME to god
- Father was not father always because he had not the Son
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god is one person only
- son is not real god , but creature
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son's nature can change , become sinful, but his will keeps his nature without change, as gift of God.
- the Son , even without sin is never real god
- son, by the energy of god created the holy spirit, which obeys to Son
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Son is the first creature. Son by the help of God creates the other creatures
- god does not create directly, because then the creatures will be like him
- son is between god and world.
- son is not the wisdom of the father
- son is not the Logos of the father
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son is not saviour but a good teacher from god
- son takes a body without soul
- does not take all the human nature, only one individual body
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use wrongly the bible to support his ideas
- missuse the logic of Aristotel
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proclaim the truth (always has the truth , not discover it)
- follow the faith of church expressed in creeds for baptism
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creed
- Son of the substance of the Father
- homoousion
- realization of the CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC church
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condemn the false
- council was a court to judge and punish Arius and followers
- bishops who followed Arius refused and abandoned his teachings and then become members of the council
- Arius was not invited
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organization
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only bishops vote
- about 300 bishops, but number called 318 (gen 14:14)
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priests , philosophers etc.. only help in background
- they speak to unofficial meetings
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Constantine only manage the order
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Eustathios bishop of Antioch head of the council
- signs first
- address the emperor
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leading theologians
- Alexander bishop of Alexandria
- Athanasius
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Hosios bishop of Cordova
- emperor Constantine
- Eustathios bishop of Antioch
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practical matters of the catholic church
- common celebration of easter in east west
- about ordinations
- about repentance of those who refused christ
- priests cannot live with women except family
- condemn eunuchism
- clerics cannot serve out of their juristictions
- clerics must not be greedy
- rebaptise heretics Paulacians
- no kneel on sunday
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metropolitanate and bishops
- special role to bishops of Rome, alexadria, Antioch, Jerusalem
- Yehova wittiness