What was one principal object in calling this council?
Answer
"The question relating to the observance of Easter, which was agitated in the time of Anicetus and
Polycarp, and afterward in that of Victor, was still undecided. It was one of the principal reasons for
convoking the Council of Nice, being the most important subject to be considered after the Arian
controversy."
"It appears that the churches of Syria and Mesopotamia continued to follow the, custom of the
Jews, and celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, whether falling on Sunday or not. All the
other churches observed that solemnity on Sunday only, namely; those of Rome, Italy, Africa, Lydia,
Egypt, Spain, Gaul, and Britain; and all Greece, Asia, and Pontus." - Boyle's 'Historical View of the
Council of Nice," page 23, edition 1836.
How extensively did Christ make use of parables?
What did the prophet see in this vision?
What did Christ say of the certainty of this prophecy?
What scene in heaven was presented to the prophet as the seventh trumpet was about to sound?
Are angels of a higher order of beings than man?
How does Satan deceive the people?
Why was the parable of the importunate widow given?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle