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🗓️ 1 June 2025
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Was the Nicene Creed a political power grab—or a faithful summary of Scripture? Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb explore the background and context to the Council of Nicaea and how the creed’s first article counters gnostic myths, affirms the goodness of creation, and the Old Testament.
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Michael Kruger challenges the modern assumption that the Bible was chosen arbitrarily. With clarity and care, he explores the historical, theological, and cultural evidence that the canon wasn't imposed, but emerged within the early Christian community.
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0:00.0 | How did the New Testament come to be? Was the canon created by the early church? Or was it recognized as sacred from the start? In the question of canon, biblical scholar Michael Kruger challenges the modern assumption that the Bible was chosen arbitrarily. With clarity and care, he explores the historical, theological, and cultural |
0:23.3 | evidence that the canon wasn't imposed, but emerged with an early Christian community. Whether |
0:29.6 | you're a student of Scripture or simply curious about the Bible's origins, this book offers |
0:35.0 | insight that will deepen your understanding and strengthen your faith. |
0:39.4 | And now, for a limited time, you can receive the question of canon for a donation of $15 or more. |
0:46.6 | Visit solarmedia.org slash offers to request your copy. |
0:52.6 | We can all say now, a couple years later, what, 1,700 years later, it's clear to us |
0:59.2 | that this guy is a heretic. |
1:01.0 | It was not clear to the church at this time. |
1:04.1 | Arius was very influential. |
1:06.3 | It's very much worth noting this, that Arias, as we were doing this, I remember a few series ago, |
1:12.2 | we talked about the new Apostolic Reformation. And one of the ways that that thing is poisoning |
1:16.9 | the church is through pop hits that are getting into the church. And so during the time of |
1:22.5 | Arias, he had hymns. There was a time that he was not, and they were like saying how they |
1:27.2 | were singing these |
1:27.7 | things down on the docks. He had done a great job of infiltrating his false theology into the |
1:32.8 | church through the music. |
1:49.7 | Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. |
2:14.0 | This is Whitehorse's Inn, a weekly Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. |
2:17.4 | We're starting a new series on the Nicene Creed. What does the ancient confession have to do |
2:20.2 | with Gnosticism, Constantine, and the church today? Was the Council of Nicaea just a power move to |
2:25.8 | silence theological diversity? Did the group of bishops really vote the Bible into existence? |
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