Artfuldodger
Senior Member
It is evident from 1gr8bldr you need to be very careful as to where you get you info.
The councils were called to combat heresy in the church. Constantine wanted the church in the East, Constantinople, and the church in the West, Rome, to be in union on the doctrines and called a meeting of ALL the Church's bishops to decide on the Arian heresy.
The schism of 1054, I would argue, was the "Church" setting the church at Rome out until it got it's act together. Everyone loves to throw rocks at the Roman Catholics because Protestantism has taught that they are the "Great Satan", when in reality they are clueless what Rome believes. I don't hear any of them going after the Eastern Orthodox Church, or the Coptic Church, or the Russian Church, or the Scotch Anglican Church.
The Council of Nicaea was called to combat the very heresy that 1gr8bldr is tauting. The word homoousios was used, claiming the Jesus and the Father ore of one essence.
Ignorance can cause great messes.
P.S. I am not Roman Catholic, and they are not the Great Satan.
I would also agree that the Catholic Church is as much Christian as any Protestant Church. I don't believe all Protestant Churches feel or believe that the Catholic Church is Satan.
That being said were not these councils held in Rome? If that wasn't the beginnings of the Catholic what was? Put a date on it for me.
Reading on the internet, which I know isn't the gospel;
"According to Catholic teaching, the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ."
My assumption, and I may be wrong, was that the Catholic Church have always thought of themselves as the "world" Church of which the first Church has always been. That the other branches later split from this original Catholic Church.
But I guess we are debating over the starting date of the "Roman" Catholic Church.
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