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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CamelToe" data-source="post: 30714613" data-attributes="member: 587393">Did People Believe Jesus Was God in the First 100 Years?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Not all early Christians believed Jesus was God.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many saw him as:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A human messiah (chosen by God)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A prophet or moral teacher</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Belief in Jesus as divine began to emerge over time, especially in Paul’s letters (50s CE) and the Gospel of John (c. 90–100 CE).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Early Christianity was diverse, with many competing beliefs about Jesus.</li> </ul>How Did Jesus Become God in Christian Doctrine?Belief in Jesus as God developed gradually through these stages:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">30s–50s CE – Jesus seen as a human messiah and prophet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">50s–70s CE – Paul describes Jesus as exalted after resurrection, not clearly God.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">80s–100 CE – Gospel of John presents Jesus as the eternal Word (Logos), divine in nature.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">100s–300s CE – Intense theological debates; some thought Jesus was fully divine, others not.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">325 CE (Council of Nicaea) – Jesus declared “of the same substance” as God; officially God the Son.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">381 CE (Council of Constantinople) – Doctrine of the Trinity affirmed (Father, Son, Holy Spirit).</li> </ol>What Happened to People Who Didn’t Believe Jesus Was God?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many early groups rejected Jesus’ divinity, including:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ebionites (Jesus = human prophet)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arians (Jesus = divine, but not equal to God)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gnostics/Docetists (Jesus = divine spirit, not truly human)</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As mainstream Christianity gained power:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">These groups were labeled heretics</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Their texts were destroyed or hidden</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leaders were exiled, silenced, or punished</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Church councils enforced orthodoxy and suppressed other views.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some of these beliefs survived outside the empire or were echoed later in Islam, which honors Jesus as a prophet but not God.</li> </ul>Chatgpt thamai kiyanne aththada meva</blockquote>

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