CHAPTER VII.

_Internal Causes.--Continued_.

First specific cause: "The corrupting of the simple principles of the gospel by the admixture of the so-called philosophic systems of the times."--Judaistic perversions.--Admixture of Gnosticism with Christianity.--Gnosticism unsatisfying.--New platonics.--Doctrine of the Logos.--"The World."--Sibellianism.--Arianism.--The Council of Nice and its denunciation of Arianism.--The Nicene Creed.--The Creed of Athanasius.--Perverted view of life.--Disregard for truth.