Category: Church History
The number 318 appears once in the Bible — in the count of Abraham's trained servants in Genesis 14:14. Written in Greek as Tau-Iota-Eta, it encodes the Cross of Christ and the Name of Jesus. And it was present at the Council of Nicaea. A patristic investigation with all primary sources verified.
Was the Trinity invented in 325 AD by Constantine? We examine Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian — all writing centuries before Nicaea — who affirmed the full deity of Christ.
The ancient Syriac Peshitta originally read that “God Himself, in His grace, tasted death” at Hebrews 2:9. Sebastian Brock proves this was the earliest reading—strong early evidence for the full deity of Christ.
The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 1273-1282. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, 1885–1887, reprinted by Hendrickson in … Continue reading Early Church on the Trinity
In this post, I’ll highlight an early source attesting to the Christian practice of making the sign of the cross with the hand. The document in question is the Odes of Solomon, a fascinating and poetic text from the early Christian era. 📜 Dating the Odes of Solomon Scholars generally date the Odes to the … Continue reading ✝️ The Signing of the Cross in Early Christianity – Part 1
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