[quote=@Vilageidiotx]
Now, if there is anybody better at theology than me, please speak up, because the theological divides make very little sense to me and I don't understand why anybody could ever have cared. This was shit that nearly brought the Empire to civil war several times, and it would have divided everything from rival street gangs to aristocratic families. And that I truly don't get. 
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Zachary Karabell, in an aside in his work 'People of the Book', said that the arguments about the nature of Christ came about due to the absorption of Pagan Philosophy in the Christian Faith.

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[quote]Among the central concerns of the Neoplatonists was the divide between the material and the spiritual, between the body and the soul. That in part accounts for the almost obsessive concern in early Christianity over whether Christ was fully divine, fully human, or some alchemical combination of the two.
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