1gr8bldr
Senior Member
You may find this interesting; When Constantine converted to Christianity, there still remained the raging debate of who Jesus was, more specific for this time was the "Arian controversy". Constantine called together a council to determine the nature of Christ. This group argued for over a month, each side refering to scripture, mostly about whether Jesus existed forever or had a beginning. Arius believed that since he was a son that he must have a beginning. He believed that Jesus was the first of God's creation, refering to verses such as "the Father is greater than I". During the debate, Saint Nic, not known at this time as Santa, got so mad that he walked over to Arius and slapped him in the face. Constantine ruled Arius's view to be wrong, exiled him and his crowd. This was the council of Nicea. From these debates came the Nicene creed. Arius was later called back under the guise to reinstate him at which time he suffered a sudden death, thought of by many to have been poisoned.