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The theme seems to be that increasingly the new Byzantine Empire needed to draw so many diverse peoples and groups, and the Chi-Rho/Jesus sect provided that opportunity with its growing authority and propaganda machine through its official heresiologists and apologists, which created its myths and history.
But this really wasn't in place until after Chalcedon in the days of Justinian after weak attempts in the 4th century under the Constantinians and Theodosius. Such that Christianity as we know it finally took form only in the 6th century. Without the heresiology industry the gospels and epistles would have been lost to history. We can talk about Paul and the gospels until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it was the power of the propaganda machinery of all the alleged historians who served the empire's interests so well. Someone named Procopius is said to have written a book called the Secret History in the 6th century and wrote: "You see, it was not possible, during the life of certain persons, to write the truth of what they did, as a historian should. If I had, their hordes of spies would have found out about it, and they would have put me to a most horrible death. I could not even trust my nearest relatives. That is why I was compelled to hide the real explanation of many matters glossed over in my previous books." (http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!A0!...d/RLJUSTINIAN/) Quote:
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Thanks Duvduv. Your link (http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!A0!...d/RLJUSTINIAN/) gives a great window on the subject of the stories of horrible 'Christian persecution' that we have always been spoon fed.
Thing is, it was the Christians who were the persecutors, torturers, and murderers, it was the Christian Imperial religious machinery that was feeding people to wild beasts in the arenas for the entertainment of Christians. . |
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Monophysites : JC has one nature (God). Dyophysites : JC has two natures (God and man). He "was made man" of the Nicene Creed. |
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Huon unfortunately I don't know Greek to be able to understand the linguistic subtleties. And I wasn't asking about the monophysites. I was observing that these events established Christianity as we know it with its dogmas, doctrines and culture.
What are the linguistic implications of "incarnate" AND "made man" in Greek, and does it definitively mean that the person took a physical human body? |
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Or as some people wish it to be known.
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My citation from what is called the Secret History by Procopius is interesting Huon because it sheds light on how historians served the regime and cannot enjoy the status of a reliable source of information.
I grant that the fact that it was discovered by a priest in the Vatican archives named Niccolo Alamanni in 1623 doesn't guarantee that it is authentic of course. |
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In the so-called Justinian Codes the Arians were singled out with pagans and Jews for certain discriminatory laws. But how would anyone be able to identify someone only based on his belief about the nature of Jesus? Did they go around with signs on their heads saying "I am an Arian"??
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