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Hi
After 300 CE the Concept of Jesus Changed from Being Human
to that of a Divine Godhead!
Six Bishops of Rome believed before the first 4th-century church synods of 325 CE that God or Jesus was one. They did not believe in the trinity, nor the heresy of the followers of Jesus as later Popes did from the 4th-century onward (?).
Six Bishops of Rome before 300 CE believed God/Jesus was one.
Bishop of Rome Eleutherus (174-189 CE).
Bishop of Rome Victor I (189-199 CE).
Bishop of Rome Zephyrinus (199-217 CE).
Bishop of Rome Callistus I (217-222 CE)
Bishop of Rome Stephen I (254-257).
Bishop of Rome Dionysius (260-268 CE). (Although my source dates Dionysius start of his reign as 259 CE, I follow the Oxford Dictionary of Popes, which states the date as 260 CE. Also, the Vatican cites different dates for bishops Eleutherus and Victor I, to what has been proposed by the source and O.D.o P.)
Two Popes after 300 CE believed as the early Bishops of Rome before 300 CE
Pope Nicholas I (85-867 CE)
Pope Stephen V (885-891 CE)
Source: Elder S. D. Ashe, SDA, Study The World Ministries.
In addition, scholar Elder Ashe states in his Academia.edu paper that the four earliest Bishops of Rome: Eleutherus, Victor I, Zephyrinus and Callistus I, were, in favour of a Modallistic Christology (Christ was the Father in the flesh). One has to remember that the majority of the Church from 200 CE(?) believed in the oneness of the Godhead, as did Tertullian (155-220 CE) himself admit the oneness of God. Early Christianity was theologically diverse, although as time went on, the ‘catholic’ movement. Bishop-led, developing organizations which, at least from the late second century, claimed to be the true successors of Jesus’ apostles became increasingly dominant, out-competing many gnostic and quasi-Jewish groups. Still, confining our attention to what scholars now call this ‘catholic’ or ‘proto-orthodox’ Christianity, it contained divergent views about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. No theologian in the first three Christian centuries was a trinitarian in the sense of believing that the one God is tripersonal, containing equally divine ‘persons,’ Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/trinity-history.html#OneGod (see under Development of Creeds 3.1.1)
The trinity was established at the Council of Nicaea 325 CE and later adopted by the Council of Constantinople in 381 CE! It is from this Synod we have the controversy about the baptismal change in Matthew 28:19. Were the pre-trinity churches at the baptismal command was: In my name or In the name of Jesus.
However, this OP shows that the belief system changed dramatically from the end of the 3rd-century to something very different from the earliest Gospels.
From the earliest written/oral tradition of Pagan/Jewish established practice, we have Mary as a young girl pregnant and turned out of the doors by her husband, a carpenter, convicted of adultery [Contra Celsum, BK I, ch.28] to the 5th-century Theotokos: literally means ‘God Bearer’ or ‘the one who gives birth to God,’ that less precise or less literal include ‘Mother of God.’ [Council of Ephesus 431 CE] Within a space of 50 years, a gathering of men made Jesus and his Mother into Gods. What do you say?
Cofion
Jero Jones
Article URL : https://breakingnewsandreligion.online/discuss/