Early Christianity
Created | Updated Feb 9, 2009
The early Christians in the first century believed Yahweh1 to be the Only true God, the God of Israel, and considered Jesus to be the Messiah (Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament.
The Council of Jerusalem
The Apostolic Decree
The Council of Jerusalem (or Apostolic Conference) is a name applied subsequently to a meeting described in Acts of the Apostles chapter 15 and probably referred to in Paul's letter to the Galatians chapter 2.
It is generally dated to around the year 50 AD, some sixteen years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.Acts Chapter 15
James's Apostolic Decree was that the requirement for circumcision of males, was not obligatory for Gentile converts, but no other major change of law was proposed.
First Council of Nicaea
Church of the Roman Empire (313–476 AD)
Constantine I was the first emperor to embrace Christianity.The Nicene Creed
In 325 he summoned the Council of Nicaea, effectively the first Ecumenical Council (unless the Council of Jerusalem is so classified), to deal mostly with the Arian controversy, but which also issued the Nicene Creed, which among other things professed a belief in One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, the start of Christendom (and The Trinity).
It was convened in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey).
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father, being of one substance with the Father
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Muhammad ibn2 ‘Abdullāh3God's Apostle, Muhammad, was born in ca. 570 AD in Macca and passed away in 632 AD in Medina. Muslims consider him the restorer of the uncorrupted original monotheistic faith of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other Prophets (Peace be upon Them All). | |
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1The proper name of God in the Old Testament transliterated from Hebrew.2son of (in arabic)3‘Abdullāh ibn Abd al-Muttalib was the father of Prophet Muhammad
