Mormon Defender Skirts Christian Question; Instead Calls for Unity

Colmcille »

Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:04 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

James and peace123,

Regarding your statements that the doctrine of the Holy Trinity was not officially taught until the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in AD 325 is true in this sense: the word Trinity was not an "official" term used until the decision of the Council. However, the doctrine of the Divine Triad was taught prior to the Council. I suggest you read JND Kelly, Early Christine Doctrine, probably most widely accepted as the best text on early Christian teachings.

The Nicene Council had NO compromise. Trinitarian doctrine was accepted after Athansios the Great, only 19 at the time, presented his On The Incarnation, which stated that, "God became man, so that man may become god." In other words, what Jesus is by nature( the Son of God), we become (sons of God) by Grace. Arius and his followers who denied the Incarnation, were banished, Arianism was condemned as a heresy. Arius was later brought back by another Emperor, but was again banished and his teachings once again were condemned as heresy. Arianism survived only a few centuries later.