1st ecumenical council 325ac

mistakes about the relationship of Logos to the Son of god
1. Logos = Son of god but subordinate to father
2. logos different from the son of god
split from church
1. council in Alexandria 320 excommunicates Arious
2. council in Antioch 324
express the correct teaching
Constantine emperor invites bishops
1. many bishops wounded-martyrs
2. they had others as helpers and secretaries
Arius
1. Son of god is created in time
  1. Son is not God
  2. son is not co-eternal with father
  3. introduce TIME to god
2. Father was not father always because he had not the Son
3. god is one person only
  1. son is not real god , but creature
4. son's nature can change , become sinful, but his will keeps his nature without change, as gift of God.
  1. the Son , even without sin is never real god
5. son, by the energy of god created the holy spirit, which obeys to Son
6. Son is the first creature. Son by the help of God creates the other creatures
  1. god does not create directly, because then the creatures will be like him
  2. son is between god and world.
  3. son is not the wisdom of the father
  4. son is not the Logos of the father
7. son is not saviour but a good teacher from god
  1. son takes a body without soul
  2. does not take all the human nature, only one individual body
8. use wrongly the bible to support his ideas
  1. missuse the logic of Aristotel
proclaim the truth (always has the truth , not discover it)
1. follow the faith of church expressed in creeds for baptism
2. creed
  We believe in one God the Father All-sovereign, maker of all things. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, only-begotten, that is, of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things were made, things in heaven and things on the earth; who for us men and for our salvation came down and was made flesh, and became man, suffered, and rose on the third day, ascended into the heavens, and is coming to judge living and dead. And in the Holy Spirit. And those that say 'There was when he was not,' and, 'Before he was begotten he was not,' and that, 'He came into being from what-is-not,' or those that allege, that the son of God is 'Of another substance or essence' or 'created,' or 'changeable' or 'alterable,' these the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes.
  1. Son of the substance of the Father
  2. homoousion
3. realization of the CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC church
condemn the false
1. council was a court to judge and punish Arius and followers
2. bishops who followed Arius refused and abandoned his teachings and then become members of the council
3. Arius was not invited
organization
1. only bishops vote
  1. about 300 bishops, but number called 318 (gen 14:14)
2. priests , philosophers etc.. only help in background
  1. they speak to unofficial meetings
3. Constantine only manage the order
  1. Eustathios bishop of Antioch head of the council
    1. signs first
    2. address the emperor
leading theologians
1. Alexander bishop of Alexandria
2. Athanasius
3. Hosios bishop of Cordova
  1. emperor Constantine
4. Eustathios bishop of Antioch
practical matters of the catholic church
1. common celebration of easter in east west
2. about ordinations
3. about repentance of those who refused christ
4. priests cannot live with women except family
5. condemn eunuchism
6. clerics cannot serve out of their juristictions
7. clerics must not be greedy
8. rebaptise heretics Paulacians
9. no kneel on sunday
10. metropolitanate and bishops
  1. special role to bishops of Rome, alexadria, Antioch, Jerusalem
Yehova wittiness