Destroying the violent ignorance done to Christianity by Dan Brown's Mythology -
the Da Vinci Code
1 - the early Christian Church overwhelmingly favored the Nicene Creed (not narrowly adopted it)
2 - the 1st-3rd century churches had a very high christology where Jesus Christ was worshiped as God (it wasn't just decided to elevate him to godhood at Nicaea)
Melito of Sardis a 2nd Century preacher - contemporaries regarded Melito as having lived a life remarkable for its spirituality, from his Homily on the Passion Melito talks about Israel's failure to recognize Christ for who he is, it says:
You did not see God.
You did not perceive the Lord, Israel,
You did not recognize the first-born of God,
Begotten before the morning star,
Who adorned the light,
Who lit up the day,
Who divided the darkness,
Who fixed the first boundary,
Who hung the earth,
Who tamed the abyss,
Who stretched out the firmament,
Who furnished the world,
Who arranged the stars in the heavens,
Who lit up the great lights,
Who made the angels in heaven,
Who there established thrones,
Who formed humanity on the earth.
He who hung the earth is hanging.
He who fixed the heavens in place has been fixed in place.
He who laid the foundation of the universe has been laid on a tree.
The Master has been profaned.
God has been murdered.
"Scholars who study the history of Christianity will find it bizarre, at best, to hear Brown claim that Christians before the Council of Nicaea did not consider Jesus to be divine."
Bart D Ehrman 2004
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