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It's an interesting historical and political question though, since it was the core question of the First Council of Nicea which Constantine used to establish a
by duped 4y ago
It's an interesting historical and political question though, since it was the core question of the First Council of Nicea which Constantine used to establish an orthodoxy for his empire. That single church lasted for almost 700 years before splitting in two.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> That single church lasted for almost 700 years before splitting in two. It…didn’t, though; there was a schism (Macedonian) within 7 years, not 700, of Nicaea, and there were even schisms that created separate long-lasting Churches on the side rejecting the view of the part of the Church that survived in union until the Catholic/Orthodox split much sooner than 700 years (e.g., the Nestorian schism in 431 and the Church of the East which survives to this day; the Chalcedonian/Monophysite schism in 451, from which the Oriental Orthodox churches still survive, etc.)
- timeon 4y agoThere was already split when Paul joined the church. Just those original Jewish branches (like Ebionites) did not survived to this age.