Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Church Manila just providing you a quick video on
Roman Catholicism exposed and what I want to talk to you about is the Council of Nicaea
and some of the other councils that have existed within the Roman Catholic Church through the
centuries.
The Council of Nicaea came in 325 AD and this was just a short time after Constantine's
supposed conversion when he saw the cross in the sky and so basically this council was
made to kind of get together all the so-called Christians and let's just agree and figure
out what we believe and set aside all differences and just create one universal religion, okay?
Now there's a lot of problems with this. Number one, people have this idea that these were
all of the Christians that existed in the entire area at the time but the truth is there
was already a fight between those that were saved in the false Christian in the Bible
before 325 AD. You see this fight as Paul the Apostle is fighting it and all these people
that are trying to say they're Christian but they're mixing in work salvation and so this
fight existed before 325 AD and so it's still existing in 325 AD and you have to understand
the people that actually attended this council were not the godly people because the godly
people would be fighting against this work salvation and what you have to understand
is there's always this battle between true prophets and false prophets. In 1 Kings 18
verses 21 and 22 the Bible reads, And Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long
halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow
him. And the people answered him, not a word. Then said Elijah unto the people, I even I
only remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men. And so you basically
have Elijah versus all of these false prophets and in this day I'm sure it was the same thing.
There were the true Bible believing Christians who stood against this council, who rejected
this work salvation, who rejected the council of Nicaea and Constantine's vision and were
just trusting on Jesus Christ alone, but then you have all of these other people that are
willing to set aside all differences, this ecumenical thing where let's get everybody
together, the same thing that exists today and they said let's just decide what we believe.
That is not how you determine Christianity. You determine Christianity based on what does
the Bible say and the Bible does not have a universal church. It has individual local
churches. Another thing to consider is that councils in the Bible are a bad thing. They're
not a good thing. In Matthew 10 verses 16 through 18 the Bible reads, Behold I send
you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be therefore wise as serpents and harmless
as doves, but beware of men for they will deliver you up to the councils and they will
scourge you in their synagogues and you shall be brought before governors and kings for
my sake for a testimony against them and the gentiles. And this council of Nicaea is basically
this governmental run council forcing everybody to be part of this religion. And you know
what? It makes sense when you look at the Bible because these false councils existed
before 325 A.D. This is what has always existed where people got together and said what do
we believe? And they're going to fight against the true beliefs and that's what was existing.
But the last last thing to think about is this. You cannot force people to be saved.
This is a governmental run religion. They said this is what we believe as Christians.
You can't force people to believe on Jesus Christ and you can't force people to believe
things in that same chapter. Starting at verse 11 it reads and into whatsoever city or town
he shall enter inquire who in it is worthy and thereby till you go fence. And when you
come into a house saluted and if the house be worthy let your peace come upon it. But
if it be not worthy let your peace return to you. This is talking about the gospel of
peace. And if the house is worthy if they're willing to receive your words you preach the
gospel of peace. If they're not willing to receive your words you just move on to the
next door. Verse 14 and whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when you depart
out of that house or city shake off the dust of your feet. And so what you have to understand
is that even if this council of Nicaea was actually correct and godly and had the right
beliefs you cannot force everybody in a country to believe these things. It's a free will
choice that people make and you're not going to see in the Bible that if people don't believe
we end up crucifying them or torturing them like the Roman Catholic Church has done. And
you have to understand this council of Nicaea that's what they were basically doing. They
were saying these are going to be the beliefs that everybody is forced to believe. And you
see that with religions around the world today and then they will crucify and torture
people that disagree with them. That is not biblical Christianity. The council of Nicaea
it was a fraud. This is not how we determine what we believe. And at the council of Nicaea
they may have determined whether or not they believe the Trinity. But there are Bible believing
Christians that already believe the Trinity. We didn't have to figure this out at the council
of Nicaea with a bunch of false prophets. Thank you and God bless.