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'Hold on. You're saying Jesus' divinity was the result of a vote?' 'A relatively close vote at that,' Teabing added.."
 
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown, pg. 233

 
Was Christ's Divinity and the Bible invented at the Council of Nicea?
 
Was the divinity of Christ invented at the Council?
 
The following link is to the John Ankerberg website but you need Adobe Acrobat to read it because it is a .pdf document.
 
On the Ankerberg program, Erwin Lutzer was quoting from the Davinci Code, where the author Dan Brown has created fictional characters talking about the Council of Nicea, saying that the deity of Christ was invented at Nicaea.
 
It is a popular argument of JW's to say that this council invented the deity of Christ and the Trinity, when in fact they only affirmed what the scriptures always taught.
 
All one has to do is go to the New Testament to see that it was taught then.
 
In fact I think the vote at the council was 316 to 2 according to Erwin Lutzer affirming the deity of Christ.
 
The main one to oppose the deity of Christ was the reason that they convened the council in the first place. Arius of Alexandria was similar in beliefs to the Jehovah's Witnesses of today.
 
JW's and Catholics like to say that these councils created these things, when in fact they only affirmed what the scriptures said and the main body of believers already believed.
 
Here is an excerpt from the Ankerberg document and they are quoting from 'The DaVinci code'.
 
Hopefully, You will see how dangerous this kind of talk is, especially when seeing that six million people have read the DaVinci Code.
 
 
"At this gathering. Teabing said, 'many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon-the date of Easter, the role of bishops. The administration of sacraments, and of course, the divinity of Jesus.'
 
[Sophie] 'I don't follow. His divinity?
 
'My dear, ' Teabing declared, 'until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet...a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless.
 
A mortal.' 'Not the Son of God?' 'Right,' Teabing said. 'Jesus' establishment as 'the Son of God' was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.'
 
'Hold on. You're saying Jesus' divinity was the result of a vote?' 'A relatively close vote at that,' Teabing added.."
 
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown, pg. 233
 
For the rest of the article go to:
 
 
The next link is not a pdf document so everyone should be able to read this.
 
This site, quotes the same words from the DaVinci Code but responds differently, though also with a good conclusion.
 
It also defines Gnosticism and also gives the reason Gnostic teaching and books were rejected.
 
 
"In other words, by the New Testament period, there was already a core of documents and ideas by which Christians could evaluate other documents. The New Testament documents already manifest a concept of 'orthodoxy,' or at least criteria by which truth and error could be distinguished. Among the second-century lists of authoritative Scriptures, never are gnostic texts listed—not even by the unorthodox Marcion in about 140. There was never a time when a wide selection of books, including gnostic ones, were widely deemed acceptable."
 
BJ Maxwell 04/24/2006