... of bishops, thereby paving the way for a concentration of power in ecclesiastical hands. Most important of all, the Council of Nicea decided, by vote, that Jesus was a god, not a mortal prophet (Baigent, 1985, p368). Upon the decision of the divinity of Christ, Arius was banished. A year after the Council of Nicea, Constantine sanctioned the confiscation and destruction of all works that ... authority the Church had to keep the faith in Jesus intact. Effectively, the best insurance to guard against a forgotten Jesus, would be the creation of a divine Jesus figure, for if a prophet may b...

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