The NIcene creed apparently was developed in the year 325 and is a basic baseline that all denominations accept; whether in the Catholic; Eastern Orthodox and many Protestant denominations. We need to keep in mind that this came a couple centures before these first two churches developed and over 1000 years before we saw Protestantism come to pass. This was apparently in the time frame of Constantine who had his famous vision of a cross before procuring victory in battle some 13 years before this in the year 312. Immediately before this apparently the division of the Roman territory into east and west had begun with the earlier ruler of Rome. That would; of course allow for the development of the Catholic church in the west and Eastern Orthodox in the Eastern areas; which today is quite evident in Greek as well as Russian church traditions.
As far as the Coptic church is concerned as far as I know it started in the Egyptian area and is very mystical and not generally doctinally sound. The big questions in general come from either lack of information or my own lack of research on the evidence of the first centuries of church development in the rest of Africa as well as what type of churches were in areas such as India where Thomas was rumored to be martyred and where missionaries reached quite early on with at least one outreach.
The destruction of the library of Alexandria has several rumored dates; one of which was around 270 to 275 AD; which destroyed anything remaining from Julius Caesar's initial destruction or as some say it wasn't destroyed until the 7th century (see Daily History dot org; September 28, 2001).
In further postings I will go back once again to the scriptures to get to the subject of what defines a good church as well as how a church plant was originally conceived and designed and how it evolved to what we see with Denominations today. I will delve into how it takes great individual and group effort
The NIcene creed apparently was developed in the year 325 and is a basic baseline that all denominations accept; whether in the Catholic; Eastern Orthodox and many Protestant denominations. We need to keep in mind that this came a couple centures before these first two churches developed and over 1000 years before we saw Protestantism come to pass. This was apparently in the time frame of Constantine who had his famous vision of a cross before procuring victory in battle some 13 years before this in the year 312. Immediately before this apparently the division of the Roman territory into east and west had begun with the earlier ruler of Rome. That would; of course allow for the development of the Catholic church in the west and Eastern Orthodox in the Eastern areas; which today is quite evident in Greek as well as Russian church traditions.
As far as the Coptic church is concerned as far as I know it started in the Egyptian area and is very mystical and not generally doctinally sound. The big questions in general come from either lack of information or my own lack of research on the evidence of the first centuries of church development in the rest of Africa as well as what type of churches were in areas such as India where Thomas was rumored to be martyred and where missionaries reached quite early on with at least one outreach.
The destruction of the library of Alexandria has several rumored dates; one of which was around 270 to 275 AD; which destroyed anything remaining from Julius Caesar's initial destruction or as some say it wasn't destroyed until the 7th century (see Daily History dot org; September 28, 2001).
In further postings I will go back once again to the scriptures to get to the subject of what defines a good church as well as how a church plant was originally conceived and designed and how it evolved to what we see with Denominations today. I will delve into how it takes great individual and group effort
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