Dr. Reeves, I have loved all of your videos so far. It would be great to see one on Chrysostom!

Dr. Reeves, thank you for these videos. I'm sure you're busy but the more you can make of these the better. I love church history. I can't get enough of them.

Awesome series! Bless you!

It's interesting that islam basically is Arian heresy to extreme.

Great video! Keep it up!

Stellar. Well done.

Great video!

Thank you for your programs. I loved it when you used he word substantive - since the whole Arian controversy was about substance.

Thank you for your videos, it's good to be able to trust someone to share knowledge, about important historical matters. I have come to appreciate more and more, the perspective of, how we got where we are. I would like to ask you what you think about the findings, that The Temple was actually directly built on top of the Gihon Springs, in Zion, The City of David. This site is south of The Temple Mount, obviously lower than the Mount(Roman Fortress) referred to in Acts, the place where Paul was taken up the stairs to escape the crowd. I ask this because The Temple and Jerusalem are focal points, which represent the epicenter of all that has been in the past, now, and in the future. I'm not sure whether you have done a video pertaining to Jerusalem or not so forgive me if you have already addressed the subject.

One of the great African architects of the Christian faith. Great presentation!

Very interesting.

Loving your videos my dood. St nick always great with his heretic slapping. Happy early st Nicholas day.

This point gets overshadowed by his signature teaching son the Trinity and against Arianism, but Athanasius was one who contributed much to defining what the monastic life should be about. He wrote about the desert monk, St. Anthony of Egypt, a writing which was something of a best seller.

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Very true! Now I wish I had added at least a comment on that point! :)

@chessgeek10707

7 жыл бұрын

Well, maybe you may get around to doing a sequel on St. Athanasius. :-)

was expecting a bit more in depth of life of Athanasius including his exiles. please note that you have spelt his name wrong at the end! thanks for video!

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I make them fast and have been known to have a typo or two. Videos from me are always a bit stream of consciousness, I suppose! :)

3:59 Wait, that's St. Nicholas slapping an Arian? _The halo completes this for me._ And now I'm wondering if there are people who use that as an icon for veneration...

I love your channel, but during the middle ages and the modern era, it seems you focus only on Western Europe and the United States (with a few exceptions here and there). Can you do a series on the Orthodox Church? Maybe even further east to Armenia and India?

@benjaminmiller936

7 жыл бұрын

He teaches at an evangelical Protestant seminary so his knowledge on the subject might not be as extensive as the other fields

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Well yes, compared to my knowledge of snake handling and feet binding....

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Yes these are all in the works. A bit ironic to point out my Western and European focus on a video about an Egyptian who is a hero of the Orthodox Church, but I do think the point is worth taking! :)

@Robert-cl3rf

7 жыл бұрын

pardon the irony, but its been on my mind and I figured you'd be paying close attention to the comments of this video since you just put it up.

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

No I agree with the point. It's one we are always thinking through as historians. The irony part was just a funny for me :)

Amen

the creed now contains the words 'consubstantial with the father'.

Just listening to/reading the explanation of these arian antichrist beliefs hurts my head, my heart, and my soul! *_"I and my Father are one."_* (John 10:30) _"And _*_Jesus answered him,_*_ The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; _*_The Lord our God is one Lord:_*_ {30} And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. {31} And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."_ (Mark 12:29-31) _"For _*_there are three that bear record in heaven,_*_ the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and _*_these three are one."_* (1 John 5:7) _"And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, _*_a throne was set in heaven,_*_ and _*_one sat on the throne."_* (Revelation 4:2) _"But all these worketh _*_that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."_* (1 Corinthians 12:11) _"{6} _*_Jesus saith_*_ unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. {7} _*_If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him._*_ {8} Philip saith unto him, Lord, _*_shew us the Father,_*_ and it sufficeth us. {9} _*_Jesus saith_*_ unto him, _*_Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,_*_ Philip? _*_he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;_*_ and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?"_ (John 14:6-9) _"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? _*_He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son._*_ {23} Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."_ (1 John 2:22-23) _"Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and _*_the LORD saw it, and it displeased him_*_ that there was no judgment. {16} And _*_he saw_*_ that there was no man, _*_and wondered_*_ that there was no intercessor: _*_therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him._*_ {17} For _*_he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head;_*_ and _*_he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke._*_ {18} According to their deeds, accordingly _*_he will_*_ repay, fury to _*_his_*_ adversaries, recompence to _*_his_*_ enemies; to the islands _*_he will_*_ repay recompence. {19} So shall they fear _*_the name of the LORD_*_ from the west, and _*_his glory_*_ from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, _*_the Spirit of the LORD shall_*_ lift up a standard against him. {20} And _*_the Redeemer shall_*_ come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith _*_the LORD."_* (Isaiah 59:15-20) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and *the Word was God.* {2} The same was in the beginning with God. {3} *All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.* {4} In him was life; and the life was the light of men. {5} And *the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."* (John 1:1-5)

@Jen-di2pm

7 жыл бұрын

*_"Thus saith_*_ (1!) _*_the LORD,_*_ (2!!) _*_the Redeemer of Israel, and_*_ (3!!!) _*_his Holy One,_*_ to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee."_ (Isaiah 49:7)

I like it

Still waiting on that 30 minute video on the cathar Crusade

he was the one who came up with the canon what we now know

WOW!!!

This is where the name THANOS comes from

The trinity was not formulated at the council of Nicaea in 325. C.E. for at that council there was no mention of the holy spirit. Later, Emperor Theodosius convened the Council of Constantinople in 381 C.E. to clarify the formula. For the first time, the 'Trinity' began to come into focus. Many opposed it and thus brought on themselves violent persecution. The trinity was defined more fully in the Athanasian Creed, which declares: "We worship one god in Trinity...the father is god, the son is god, and the Holy ghost is god; and yet they are not three gods, but one god"What influenced it? throughout the ancient world, as far back as Babylonia, the worship of pagan gods grouped in threes, or triads, was common. That influence was also prevalent in Egypt, Greece, and Rome in the centuries before, during, and after Christ. And after the death of the apostles, such pagan beliefs began to invade Christianity. Thus, in Alexandria, Egypt, churchmen of the late third and early fourth centuries, such as Athanasius, reflected this influence as they formulated ideas that led to the trinity. Plato, it is thought, lived from 428 to 347 before Christ. 'the Church of the first three centuries' says: "the doctrine of the trinity was of gradual and comparatively late formation;...it had its origin in a source entirely foreign from that of the Jewish and Christian scriptures;...it grew up, and was ingrafted on Christianity, through the hands of the Platonizing fathers." By the end of the third century C.E., christianity and the new Platonic philosophies became inseparably united. As Adolf Harnack states in 'Outlines of the History of Dogma', church doctrine became "firmly rooted in the soil of Hellenism (pagan greek thought). Thereby it became a mystery to the great majority of Christians." The church claimed that its new doctrines were based on the bible. But Harnack says: "in reality it legitimized in its midst the Hellenic speculation, the superstitious views and customs of pagan mystery-worship." In the book 'A Statement of Reasons, Andrews Norton says of the Trinity: "We can trace the history of this doctrine, and discover its source, not in the christian revelation, but in the Platonic philosophy...The trinity is not a doctrine of Christ and his apostles, but a fiction of the school of the later Platonists."Thus in the fourth century C.E., the apostate churches also began embracing other pagan ideas, such as hellfire, immortality of the soul.

@WestsidePredator

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Apostles Creed, of AD. 50, where yes, the trinity had not been clearly defined, yet the Apostles has at least clarified in credo that there was a Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.