Council of Nicea

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When the Roman Catholic Church was established under Emperor Claudius Constantine, in 325 AD, at the Council of Nicaea in Turkey, there was a deal of confusion among the delegates. The collection of men who attended under orders from him was such that they came from all areas of the empire.

Delegates were drawn from the Far East to the most distant west, from the furthest north to the far away south. They were a mixture of poor and rich, persecuted and terrorized, high status and low and, of course, there were the mystical and magical who dreamed of things that today might label them mad.

Some were favour seeking heads of various religions ranging from Arianism to Gnostic, the mystical christ to Egyptian, Donatist to Imperial Roman religion, and others. Without exception they were all of faiths that believed in the sun god under various names and practices.

Some of these never survived the council as they were murdered, as with Arius, or simply disappeared never to be heard of again. They were the ones who could least accept the proposal put forward by Constantine and his cohorts that a Son of God, (although no one could say who he was) had come to earth and performed miracles. They were more perplexed about the notion of a Trinity except for the Hindu delegation that was in tune with that version of the god-head.

The trend in the Roman Empire was to recognise a so-called son of God as having come to earth. Such a person was depicted in various forms ranging from Bacchus to Apollo. The roman Caesar Constantine claimed of himself that he was the son of Apollo, as recorded history demonstrates.