The Great Apostasy - Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History #245135

First specific cause: The corrupting of the simple principles of the gospel by the admixture of the so-called philosophic sys tems of the times. — Judaistic perversions. — Admixture of Gnosticism with Christianity. Gnosticism unsatisfying. New Platonics. — Doctrine of the cos. The Word. Sibellianism. — Arianism. — The Council of Nice and its de nunciation of Arianism. — The Nicene Creed — The Creed of Athanasius. — Perverted view of life — Disregard for truth.