The Nicene Creed came about at the council of Nicaea around AD 325. Many things were discussed at the council and formulations of the canon, as well as the Nicene Creed took place. Though the creed would eventually be modified to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed as we know it today, theological and doctrinal claims were made about Christianity. Several issues were addressed in the creed to dissipate heresy and ignorance as well as to unify the church in thought and action. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ… When the Jewish people thought of the coming Messiah, they envisioned a ruler that would destroy their oppressors by force . Though Christ, was did not rule by force, he was still considered Lord. His power was not political, but …show more content…
Rather, it is a mystery as to how Christ entered the world through Mary while she retained her virginity . Adoptionism was offered as a “solution” to the problem, though it was unpopular with the early Church because adoptionism took away from the gospel . According to adoptionism, either at baptism or ascension, Christ was adopted as the son of God . Instead of being the son of God and part of the trinity from the start, Christ was admitted to heaven as the son of God because of His own righteousness. The Church holds that adoptionism takes away from the divinity of Christ, thus it is heretical. If Christ is not fully God as well as fully man, the hypostatic union falls apart, and so does Christianity. God from God, light from light, true God from true God… Christ is part of the trinity which is three persons, but one being. This part of the creed was an issue for both Christ and for the early church. Christ had to convince his disciples that he was in fact God when saying things like, “Before Abraham, I Am” (John 8:58), and “The father and I are one” (John 10:30). Many of the authors of the New Testament pointed to Christ as God, using “Theos” to describe him . Theos in Greek translates to “God” thus, there was no question about the author’s