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Protecting and clarifying that original pre-gentile church's understanding by rejected the Kingdom of God and whored itself to the Roman Empire, re-joining the world of man that is backwards to the Kingdom? How can that be justified without first controlling the narrative of the day?
Narratives are also controlled by those who ignore or even revise history. All of those councils, BTW, occurred in the east, not the west. There, some actual historical narrative.
I understand but it was amalgamed and formulated by all, be they east or west after the civil war, who leapt at the chance to be on team Empire rather than Kingdom.
I agree, yes it did. Thankfully, we have the record of the foundation of truth which was the basis of the movement which followed the two commandments and later morphed into another religion of human construct. But those books accepted and rejected were not direct dictation from God, nor were they untainted by the cultural and political climate of the days of both their writings and of course the era of canonization. Man taints everything but thankfully God knows how to forward His truth enclosed in the truths of man and in using the Gentiles His truths were forwarded, not in the religion, but in the scriptures hopefully til the end of the age of the Gentiles. Isn't it amazing how hypocrisy of man in comparison to God's truth can cast a glaring light on our backwards ways.
Not. No worries though. YHVH in charge. YHVH accomodated/orchestrated/brought to completion the so-called canon. History of the Baptist, revealing history beginning in the first century, reveals the accomplishment long before manmade religion got involved at all, and like Scripture, inspired by YHVH without man's mess.
Yes, it they follow man's definition of rational. That's the whole point, there are two sides and some follow the Kingdom's definition. Repentance is rejecting man's definition, is it not?
Imaginative. I'll say that at least. If you were to explore the history of those past times. you'd find that Constantine's Edict of Milan legitimized Christianity, while also giving freedom to most other religions to practice their beliefs. But Christianity took hold and grew and he favored it as well and it appeared for a time that the Kingdom of God might actually be realized here on earth. When the Roman Empire fell Catholicism was the one common thread, the fabric that held the now fragmented society together, now politically divided into city states and kingdoms. They were harsher times, not so nice, and the church was politically involved for the good of society and for its own survival and yet...managed to keep intact its treasure, its teachings, from the beginning, in fact. When Constantine helped convene a council to address the Arian controversy that was already threatening to tear the Christian world apart, the bishops actually voted against Arianism which he, if anything, seemed to favor. Other councils would follow during the ensuing centuries, all avowing and protecting and clarifying the true faith while the messy and mundane and often dangerous business of living in this world also continued on.
Truth, Scripture, was not helped by the counterfeit church nor any organized groop of hoomans.
And yet no one transcends it in the ultimate sense or perfectly IOW in this life.
It's not a rebellious Church even as rebellion (sin) continues to have its way in all individuals to one degree or another in this life. What I was saying is that the church produced much more good fruit than assembling the canon of Scripture-and assembling that canon in no way assured that everyone who picks it up and reads it will necessarily fully understand it anyway. Again, despite humans sin and imperfection God works in and through man. That's the only way it can work, in fact, if any of us are to be able to know an do His will.
Yes, He's happy when we repent, happier yet when we love, happiest when we're perfected in love which won't happen fully until the nexr life-and somehow I think that may well be an eternal exercise of sorts.
