Did the Early Church Believe Jesus Was God?
The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What really happened at the Council of Nicaea? Did Constantine force Christians to declare Jesus as God? Was the Bible invented there? And why does the Nicene Creed still matter today? Esau McCaulley sits down with Dr. George Kalantzis, Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, to clear up the biggest misconceptions about Nicaea, the divinity of Christ, and the role of the early church in shaping Christian belief. They also discuss why the early Romans thought Christianity was too "soft," and how the church resisted the empire.
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| 0:00.0 | PASSION IN MY |
| 0:07.0 | Passion in my pockets where my pennies should be |
| 0:10.0 | where they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free |
| 0:13.0 | I've been becoming me see when Jesus taking the lead with purpose I bleed |
| 0:17.0 | and riles like doing under the heat defeat is a never |
| 0:20.0 | you can't reattach |
| 0:21.2 | with a sever what's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your treasure |
| 0:24.6 | when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better |
| 0:31.4 | Hello welcome to the Eastside McCauley podcast I'm your your host, Esau McCauley. Today on the podcast, |
| 0:38.9 | we have my friend, and what is your official title, George? Is this an associate, full professor? |
| 0:44.4 | What is your title here? Professor of theology. Professor of theology at Wheaton College, |
| 0:49.8 | George Kalensis. So today we're going to be talking about the creeds, the Nicene Creed in particular. |
| 0:55.3 | And as some of you might know, always on the podcast, we open the podcast, or sometimes on the |
| 0:59.5 | podcast, we open the podcast with this game we call All You Washed. We're trying to figure out if the |
| 1:04.5 | person who's on the podcast is actually competent to discuss the matters that we're about to engage in for the next 30 or 40 minutes. |
| 1:13.7 | And so I thought that since we are doing, this is low-hanging fruit, so you should have been prepared for this. |
| 1:18.9 | Since we're doing the creeds, I'll ask you about the band, Creed. |
| 1:24.1 | I just thought that made a whole lot of sense. |
| 1:26.6 | And so I'm going to ask you a couple of questions to see what you know about Creed. We're going to start off very easy. What genre of music is Creed a part of? The band. |
| 1:42.4 | Wikipedia says American rock band. |
| 1:45.8 | No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can't use Wikipedia. |
| 1:50.2 | This is about your own knowledge. |
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