Spoke 4
Numbers, Ezekiel, Galatians
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the
grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble
you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed [anathama]. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach
any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed [anathama].
Spoke 4, Cycle 3
(Galatians 1.6f)
Anathema
The Fourth Century marks the beginning of a series of Church Councils that met over a period
of four hundred years. It was enabled by the legalization of Christianity by
Constantine in
312 AD. The first two Ecumentical Councils (considered binding on the whole Church)
were held in the Fourth Century in
Nicaea  [325] and
Constantinople [381].
The Council of Nicaea dealt with the Arian Heresy, conlcuding with this statement
anathematizing those who would
teach a different Christ than that received by the Apostles:
We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and
invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, that is,
of the substance [ek tes ousias] of the Father, God of God, light of light,
true God of true God, begotten not made, of the same substance with the Father [homoousion to patri],
through whom all things were made both in heaven and on earth; who for us men and our salvation
descended, was incarnate, and was made man, suffered and rose again the third day,
ascended into heaven and cometh to judge the living and the dead. And
in the Holy Ghost. Those who say: There was a time when He was not,
and He was not before He was begotten; and that He was made our of nothing (ex ouk onton);
or who maintain that He is of another hypostasis or another substance [than the Father],
or that the Son of God is created, or mutable, or subject to change, [them] the catholic
Church anathematizes.
This is the first formal anathematization from a Council of God's Church. We have a perfect
correlation of the content from the Fourth Spoke (Galatians) with this artifact from the
Fourth Century. The concept of anathema also part of a Spoke 4 KeyLink discussed in
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