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jim_1 (Zone 5B)

5 years ago

Council of Nicaea

This was the first ecumenical council of Christian churches, held in Nicaea in Bithynia, Asia Minor, in A.D. 325. At this council the Nicene Creed was promulgated as a formal statement of the tenets of the Christian faith and chiefly of the doctrine of the Trinity. This creed is still widely used in Christian churches.

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maire_cate
5 years ago
That brought back memories of childhood recitations in church.
Elmer J Fudd
5 years ago
I learned it slightly differently. There were a diversity of beliefs, practices and even written works among early Christian communities and the differences were leading to difficulties and fractious relationships. The purpose of the Council of Nicaea was to try to have some uniformity in dogma, to standardize doctrine and to also choose which written works would be used and which ignored. As a part of that, there was a choosing of what's now called the Canonical Gospels - Mark, Matthew, Luke and John - and the agreement to ignore the others, of which there are many more. There are differences between the canonical and non-canonical gospels, to be sure, and also many unresolved differences among the canonical gospels themselves.
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I never saw a nun laugh and those sleeves usually concealed a switch of some sort. That living nightmare ended in the early 60's when one nun gave my brother a bash on the head requiring 6 stitches. Oh the horrors, ever get picked up by the ears when you were 7 years old? I did.
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I just noticed that there doesn't seem to be a way to 'like' the OP's post, I think one used to be able to do that. So thank you Jim. There must be different configurations of The Kitchen Table, because I am able to "like" OP posts. One other person liked his post besides me.
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Never heard the expression, but it's not that it's so dire that it would keep the cook from his duties. It's that it's so dire that every single hand is needed--and normally the cook does absolutely nothing but cook and would be outraged to act outside his hired role except in a real emergency.
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5 years ago
A nice choice for today -- thank you, Jim.

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