Did St. Nicholas really slap Arius at the Council of Nicaea? 

This was so informative I don't want to complain, but I want to point out that "boxing" someone's ears means to hit that person quite hard on the sides of the head. It can cause deafness and more serious injury, so is not something a person would do to himself. Of course it doesn't mean that the story there was true, just that ear boxing does have a specific meaning and implies assault of another person.

Thank you! Merry Christmas to you🎉

Lol. Merry Christmas to you and your family, Sam.

Great ending. Thank You 😊💗

Thanks Sam! Well done. Was nice to get a recap on Constantine too.

great video, I appreciated the high level of scholarship to make a short answer “No” and rich historical essay!

I would love it if a film company produce a miniseries on the events of the Early Church period and we could watch a dramatized depiction of the lives and political events surrounding these pivotal church figures… Paul of Samosata, Arius of Alexandria, Athanasius, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Aetius of Antioch, etc… I think it’d go a long way to opening the eyes of the modern Christian world to just how interesting this period is…

Yes

Arius made fun of St. Nick's wife being bald.

Well Done Sam and may GOD bless you! Let me know if you want the entire Sankt Ephraim`s Book the Hymns of Faith translated to english. Let me know A couple of months in advance.

As a biblical Unitarian who has found comedy in those memes, I guess I never looked at it the way you do Sam. I myself have been called a heretic, my picture posted on social media naming me “a child of Satan, and Antichrist worthy of eternal damnation.” Yet, I laughed at the memes. Not because I think it’s ok to ever harm someone who disagrees with you. But simply because it’s so ridiculous that people get so angry about being disagrees with, that they really do want to slap you “the heretic” sometimes. And for me, probably as a coping mechanism, I’ve learned to just smile and let it roll off my back. I guess I have a strange sense of humor and humor is usually how I cope. Thanks for sharing this and sharing a different perspective.