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....The First Council of Nicaea took texts that were already hundreds of years old and declared them as either in or out of their official Bible. ...



There is no evidence that any biblical canon was discussed at this Council, (only ecclesiastical ground rules and Christological issues).
The declaration you mention may have been a notion Voltaire came up with in the 1700's.

The first complete list of the texts included in the current NT was produced by Athanasius of Alexandria in the mid-360's, several decades after the council.




You are correct, I didn't explain it well. The council was the formation of standards, the big one being the holy trinity. This set in motion a set of standards for cannons and gospels. It didn't settle arguments but did establish a framework where leaders had a set conduit to others and came to agree or disagree with some order.

The council is the foundation that the current Christian house is built on. And the nod from Constantine was a shot in the arm for the minority view of the trinity. They did argue trinity for a few hundred years or more. But that foundation built from there is kinda like the Winchester mansion.

I think the trinity discussions had to happen because of the lazy way they simply incorporated the Jewish laws. Idolatry was a problem if Christ was a man or a son as you can't worship but the one God. Then they do it again with prayers to saints and Mary. If you don't have a line to the big boss how does an intermediary help it along. What or who declared mortals to be able to hear our prayers after they die. It gets confusing for the next centuries. Then again last year in Austin a minister pushed a deaf man on his forehead to the ground. When he got up he could hear. The papers didn't carry the story for some reason.

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