Nicea: a Protestant Council?

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“Ancient Baptists” and Other Myths
By Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
Illustration by Maria Korusiewicz

http://www.envoymagazine.com/backissues/2.4/images/ancientbaptists.jpg

Nicea, August 24, A.D. 325, 7:41 p.m. “That was powerful preaching, Brother Athanasius. Powerful! Amen! I want to invite any of you folks in the back to approach the altar here and receive the Lord into your hearts. Just come on up. We’ve got brothers and sisters up here who can lead you through the Sinner’s Prayer. Amen! And as this Council of Nicea comes to an end, I want to remind Brother Eusebius to bring the grape juice for tomorrow’s closing communion service . . .”

Ah yes, the Baptists at the Council of Nicea. Sound rather silly? It certainly does. And yet, there are those who claim the Church of Nicea was more Protestant in belief and practice than Catholic. I recently read an article in The Christian Research Journal, written by a Reformed Baptist apologist, who argued this very point. No, I’m not making this up. The article, “What Really Happened at Nicea?” actually claimed the Fathers of the Council were essentially Evangelical Protestants.

Link to full article: envoymagazine.com/backissues/2.4/coverstory.html
 
Well if you can’t beat 'em…usurp their history and call it your own. 🙂
 
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Wow…there seems to be a real disconnect and misunderstanding of history. Was the Council of Nicea Catholic??? Duh!!! Oh how I fear for the future and how they will re-write the past.
 
That is an amazing webpage to be under a CRI banner (those folks are usually completely wacky). But this one is actually pretty good (though it suffers a bit from its protestant standpoint).

The problem with the thing is the protestant predisposition to suppose that all good Christians are Bible Christians. It mentions “Scriptural” and “Biblical” several times, even though there was no real concept of what constituted Christian “Scripture” at this early date.

But Scripture is part of Divine Tradition. If you do a “search-and-replace” and replace all occurances of “Biblical” and “Scriptural” with “Traditional” then this becomes one of the best summaries of the Nicene Council that I’ve ever seen.
 
Another one of those attempts to make everything their own. Can’t disprove the Catholic Church’s claim on history, so why not make it their own instead? I think some of them are clutching at straws so desperately so as to win in the end, even if it means distorting facts for their purpose. Rather sad.
 
Huh? Not quit because it convened “to condemn the heresy of Arius; defined clearly that the Son of God was consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father;and formulated the Nicene Creed.” 😃 RC
 
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Huh? Not quit because it convened “to condemn the heresy of Arius; defined clearly that the Son of God was consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father;and formulated the Nicene Creed.” 😃 RC
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I like the Nicene Creed, especially this line which protestants HATE-

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
 
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