A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is my answer to a Quora question: “ Did Nicholas of Myrra punch Arius at the Council of Nicaea? ”   The story that Bishop Nicholas of Myrra, punched, or otherwise, hit Presbyter Arius, in a heated debate, at the 1 st Council of Nicaea, in 325 CE, is ridiculous, and obviously untrue.   Firstly, as per Catholic sources, there is no evidence that Nicholas ever attended the ecumenical council.  And the Church is very exacting about these records.  In fact, we know very little of him, and most hagiographical accounts were written long after his death, with many of the stories, and alleged miracles being fanciful, such as the time he revived a drowned sailor, or the story he gave gold to a man to raise his daughters.  We do not even have a definitive date of his birth, and death, and the Feast is celebrated at a date “traditionally given”, meaning someone made it up along the way, and the Church went along with...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Arianism is a Christian heresy which arose in the fourth century.   Arians denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ ( a.s. ).   Arianism bears the distinction of being one of the earliest, and most enduring doctrinal dispute in ecclesiastical history.   Arianism’s main contention is that Jesus ( a.s. ) is not the Second Person in the Trinity and denies the Divine Mystery.   Mainstream Christianity, which is Pauline by creed, bases its theology on select verses of the canonical gospels – gospels that the Pauline faction made canonical.   Matthew 11:27 27 “My Father has Entrusted everything into my hands; none knows the Son truly except the Father, and none knows the Father truly except the Son, and those to whom it is the Son’s good pleasure to reveal him.”   27 Πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐπιγινώσκει τὸν υἱὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ πατήρ, οὐδὲ τὸν πατέρα τις ἐπιγινώσκει εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱὸς καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν βούληται ὁ υἱὸς...