To understand the present it helps to understand the past. The Council of Nicaea broke away from the teachings of the Christ and the original apostles of the Christ. The original truth from God was that the Son is subordinate to the Father forever. The main churches in the Roman Empire followed the bishops in rejecting this truth and formed a new kind of philosophically codified alternative faith called an ‘orthodoxy’. Some churches did not break away, especially in distant regions beyond the reach of Rome, but later Rome reined them in too. It all started a series of splits. The biggest split centuries later was between Catholics and Orthodox. Protestants split off later from the Catholics and similar splits happened in the Orthodox too. Some eventually started to seek out the original faith, but finding it again has been thwart with further splits. A kew part of all of this has been establishment of the authority of the Holy Spirit and individual faith. Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox groups have to varying degrees reestablished the authoritative work of the Holy Spirit and the faith and spiritual light within individuals. Few have found courage to concede that revelation of new truth is a true part of God’s work through Jesus Christ. Most are still very much influenced by a rejection of this which started back when the Council of Nicaea broke away from such faith. So today, the Book of Revelation is for many as far aa they can go in accepting new revelations from God, and many find even this book hard to accept.
