While there was a cult of Emperopr worship, Christ was not an Emperor, and Augustus didn’t do anything, he just didn’t stand in the way of a cult dedicated to him.
And Constantine didn’t vote at Nicea, he simply sat in. And even if he did, why would he want to diefy Christ? The fact is it is written quite clearly within the Gospels that Christ himself proclaimed his godhood.QUOTE]
You miss my point. First, Augustus did indeed declare himself a god and in fact there was much debate of this action in the Roman Senate for the Senators at the time beleived they alone had such power to confer that title. Second, I never said Christ was an Emporer. Rather, Christ became an important figure to Romans and Rome accepted the Christian cult as a state sanctioned religion. Often, Rome would look back in its history and declare those it deemed great leaders as gods or demi gods. This too is simply a fact and the accounts of several Roman historians demonstrate this point.
And you should double check your history of Constantine’s actions at Nicea. He did indeed break the deadlock over the bishops’ debate as to the nature of Christ’s being. Thus, my point - a roman Emperor, following the tradition as firmly established by Augustus and other rulers, worked again to declare a human being a god.
My point is that declaring someone a god was not at all surprising. And remember too, none of the Gospels were written by Christ and at least three were written well after the disciples were all dead. So what finally got written was written by others not there and prone to the embelishments of history, time and imagination, all during a primitive, supersticious time!!
PS: I know a lot of Catholics think writing in the Greek is impressive when it comes to quoting the bible, but reallt, its just a language, written by falable men like any other language.
Thats a good one.
