[Linux4christians] Athanasian Creed Re: Ex-Muslim's college speech disrupted by arson.

[Timothy Butler]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:47 AM, David Kuntadi wrote:

> According to below writing, trinity is PROBABLY just political move to
> remove other religion when christianity was adopted as The only
> official religion:
>
> Quote:
> "Unless the people believe Jesus is God, paganism will triumph,"
>
> DK

	There's a lot of really poor historical work done on the internet.  
Most reliable historians (and by that, I do not mean just "Christian  
historians," but historians in general) seem to date the Athanasian  
Creed as written long after Athaniasius's death. It also appears to  
have been a Latin creed, not Greek, even though Athanasius is one of  
the Greek Fathers.

	More over Constantine, though initially Trinitarian, switched camps  
to the Arians within years of Nicea. Thus began a major struggle in  
which the powers that be supported the heterodox position, while many  
of the bishops and priests maintained Nicene orthodoxy for almost 100  
years as rogues. Things were finally solidified in 381 at the Second  
Ecumenical Council (Constantinople).

	-Tim