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The Council of Nicea also issued twenty canons concerning church order and discipline.  Modern skeptics such as [[Dan Brown]] have asserted that it also declared the official [[canon]] of the [[Bible]]; however, the main body of the canon (including all four [[Gospels]]) was already decided on long before the Council, and a few books only were still being discussed afterwards.<ref>[[Eusebius]] of Caesaria, ''History of the Church''</ref>

The Council of Nicea also issued twenty canons concerning church order and discipline.  Modern skeptics such as [[Dan Brown]] have asserted that it also declared the official [[canon]] of the [[Bible]]; however, the main body of the canon (including all four [[Gospels]]) was already decided on long before the Council, and a few books only were still being discussed afterwards.<ref>[[Eusebius]] of Caesaria, ''History of the Church''</ref>

The 20 Canons of the Council of Nicaea demonstrate absolutely no [[Syncretism|syncretistic]] compromise with pagan religion, as some have charged<ref>See [http://www.christian-history.org/council-of-nicea-canons.html The Canons of the Council of Nicaea (christian-history.org)]</ref>. There is no evidence in any [[Exegesis|readings]] of the texts of the documents of the Council of Nicaea to support the charge that the emperor [[Constantine]] dictated to the council of bishops any change in doctrinal teaching or that he decreed or mandated any revision in any definition of Christian terms to accommodate any pagan beliefs, Roman or Greek or Babylonian.

The 20 Canons of the Council of Nicaea demonstrate absolutely no [[Syncretism|syncretistic]] compromise with pagan religion, as some have charged<ref>See [http://www.christian-history.org/council-of-nicea-canons.html The Canons of the Council of Nicaea (christian-history.org)] ''The commentary by the author rejects and even condemns outright some of the canons as being Catholic, sinful, and opposed to the Bible, but most significantly he says nothing about any pagan religious beliefs being evident in any of them.''</ref>. There is no evidence in any [[Exegesis|readings]] of the texts of the documents of the Council of Nicaea to support the charge that the emperor [[Constantine]] dictated to the council of bishops any change in doctrinal teaching or that he decreed or mandated any revision in any definition of Christian terms to accommodate any pagan beliefs, Roman or Greek or Babylonian.

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