Volume 7, Issue 1, page 8

BALD ,:~:~ .By Dr. MARCUS FITE
By Dr. KARL KRIDLER
(3) THE BIRTH OF JESUS
HISTORY of the Bible is a history of
Christianity, and a history of Christianity is a history of the church. The church
claims that Christianity is based on the
Bible. But there was no Bible until Christianity was born; and there was no religious
system of that name until the church was born.

The Bible and Christianity were unknown in
history until the church was born in 325 A. D.,
in the Council of Bishops at Nicea, a city of
Bithynia, in Asia Minor on the south side of
the Black Sea. The Council was convened by
Constantine, who purposely picked a place remote from Rome so the Romans would be in the
dark as to what was occurring.

The proceedings were worse than a political
convention in the U.S.A. It was a knock-down
and drag-out affair. No quarters were asked,
none was given, and no compromises were in
order. Constantine had his scheme formulated
and it had to be approved -- or else.

Briefly, his scheme was a blending of all
the religious systems of his empire, to end
the strife among the various sects and make
his empire safer, and to unite them under one
god