2-8: Copts And Egypt

45 min • 7 mars 2016

In 451, 115 years before Prophet Muhammad, several men representing various facets of Christianity met in Chalcedon in modern Turkey.
They were discussing how to define the true nature of Christ. They believed he was divine, yet he lived and died like a man.
3 weeks later, they decided Jesus Christ had two natures in one: he was both God and man.
Any Christians who deviated from this belief were declared heretics which immediately led to a schism in the Church
While most Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians accepted the Chalcedon decree, Armenian, Ethiopian, and Coptic Christians did not...Continue Reading

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