To save slavery ancient Rome in 451 AC made the political choice to see 'Christ' as a non-political being ('a god in the human body of Jesus' = Nicomachean Ethics),
opposed to the common sense of the Oriental Churches to see Jesus as a human with god-alike qualities.
Jesus was born oriental and oriental people remembered him as an emotional peaceful human
freedom fighter sentenced to death by political Romans and pro-Hellenistic pharisees.
The Council of Chalcedon is considered by the Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox,
the Old Catholics, and various other Western Christian groups to have been
the Fourth Ecumenical Council . It was held from 8 October to 1 November 451 at
Chalcedon at the Bosphorus.
| An English translation of the Creed of Chalcedon We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with us according to the manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us. |
Nevertheless the direct result of 'Chalcedon' was making a seperate Paradigm for the
Western (including Byzantine = Eastern Orthodox) church.
The oriental churches saw (until today) accepting Jesus as dual natured being as
prolonging Nestorianism.| After WWII the protestant American politicians saw the Egyptian Coptics as greater threat than the Muslims.
This paranoia was brilliantly exploited by 'Nasser'. Nevertheless the Muslim World was treated as 2nd rate World, and the more and more desperate freedom fighter Osama bin Laden points at the divide between religion (ethics = emotion) and politics (logic) with his quote: After WWII, the Americans became more aggressive and oppressive, especially in the Muslim world. [..] America does not have a religion that will prevent it from destroying all people. |