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most early christians did not believe jesus WAS god
the roman catholics won that debate here is an excerpt with sauce link
Debates over who Jesus was developed early in the life of the nascent Christian church as its leaders struggled to establish a core set of common, correct beliefs. These debates, however, did not involve the historical details of Jesus' life. Instead, these early controversies generally centered on Jesus' nature, his divinity versus his humanity. Christology is the term applied to the study of Jesus' divine and human aspects.
For example, the Gnostics—members of a variety of related movements that surfaced in the first centuries of the Christian era and who claimed to possess a secret gnosis, or knowledge of God—generally rejected the notion that Jesus had an ordinary human body. This rejection of the body was part of the Gnostic belief that the body was impure and that spiritual salvation required breaking loose from the bonds of material existence.
Elsewhere, the priest Arius of Alexandria postulated that Jesus, although the Son of God, was not equal in status, or nature, with God the Father. And the religious patriarch Nestorius taught that within Jesus existed two separate natures, one divine and one human.
In AD 451, this debate over Jesus' nature was largely put to rest for believers when leaders of the Christian church meeting at the Council of Chalcedon—not far from modern İstanbul, Turkey—declared that united within Jesus were both a fully human nature and a fully divine nature. All other notions of Jesus' nature were declared unorthodox, heresies to be avoided at peril to the soul, as they largely were by the general population of Western Christians.
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