Excerpt from The Great Apostasy: Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History First specific cause: The corrupting of the simple principles of the gospel by the admixture of the so-called philosophic sys tems of the times. - Judaistic perversions. - Admixture of Gnosticism with Christianity. Gnosticism unsatisfying. New Platonics. - Doctrine of the cos. The Word. Sibellianism. - Arianism. - The Council of Nice and its de nunciation of Arianism. - The Nicene Creed - The Creed of Athanasius. - Perverted view of life - Disregard for truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.