Council of NICEA 325 | Christianity

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1COUNCIL OF NICEA 325
Christianity is a Trinitarian faith, but not polytheistic as the divinity of God is represented
by the Father, the Son who is Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. All three of them represent the
divinity of God in equal proportion and by virtue of the fact that the same divinity of the
Supreme God is manifested in all the three elements of Trinity, they are all similar despite being
different. This accounts for the peculiarity and the uniqueness of the Christian Faith. The Divine
Power of the Holy Spirit had caused Virgin Mary to conceive Baby Jesus, who by virtue of being
born of a human being had both the Human and the Divine elements in him. Jesus Christ was
sent on a mission to the Earth by the Father to redeem humankind of sins and provide them with
salvation, which he did by shedding his blood on the cross. This forms the basic sum and
substance of the theological foundation of Christianity (Teal, 2017).
However in the fourth century AD, a priest from Alexandria named Arius had challenged
the divine aspect of Jesus Christ, which was the basic idea behind the doctrinal approach which
he had formulated, Arianism. In order to counter challenge the idea and propagations of Arius or
Arianism a Council was called at Nicea which is in modern day Iznik, in Turkey in 325 AD
(Teal, 2017).
In this particular essay the focus of the discussion shall be on the Council of Nicea
outlining its historical background and its contribution to the history of Christianity. Followed by
it shall be a section dedicated to a reflection on the central issue of the essay outlining how have
it casted an effect in the personal perception of the Christian faith.
Arius had opined that the prerogative of divinity is unique and immutable, which is above
humankind and only the prerogative of God himself, and thus it cannot be shared or bestowed by
any human entity. Hence, according to Arianism, the Divinity of Christ is thus comtestable and
Arius had totally rejected the fact that Jesus Christ could be the Son of God. Jesus Christ by