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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

● The Orthodox Church, which rejected
filioque, maintains that the Holy Spirit
comes from the Father alone. The greatest dis-
agreement between the two churches, and
which has come down to the present day, re-
garding the Trinity involves filioque.
● Therefore, the Holy Spirit was recog-
nized as divine by the advocates of the Trini-
ty 56 years after the recognition of the divini-
ty of the Son.
To summarize the actions taken to resolve
the confusion over the Trinity: (surely God is
beyond this) The explicit and official recogni-
tion of the divine status of Jesus stems from the
decision of the Council of Nicaea in 325 and
the divine status of the Holy Spirit from the

Council of Constantinople in 381. The
dual nature of Jesus, one part divine and
one part human, was raised at the coun-
cils of Ephesus in 431 and Chalcedon in
451, and the question of filioque, the
Holy Spirit coming from Jesus was dis-
cussed at the councils held in Toledo in
447 and 589 and was resolved at the Coun-
cil of Constantinople. This brief summary
here reveals that further confusion was
loaded onto Christianity at every
council.

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