How did the teaching of the Catholic Church come into being?
From Christ first and then the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15 and Galatians 2) was the first Church Council, attended by the Apostles.
The first Ecumenical (world-wide) Council was called by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great with Pope Saint Sylvester I sitting on the Throne of Peter as the 33rd successor of Christ’s appointed Apostle. The site was the city of Nicaea, just south of Constantinople in Asia Minor in 325. This council answered Arius and condemned the Arian heresy and defined the Consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
“We believe in one God the Father all powerful, maker of all things both seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten begotten from the Father, that is from the substance [Gr. ousias, Lat. substantia] of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten [Gr. gennethenta, Lat. natum] not made [Gr. poethenta, Lat. factum], CONSUBSTANTIAL [Gr. homoousion, Lat. unius substantiae (quod Graeci dicunt homousion)] with the Father, through whom all things came to be, both those in heaven and those in earth; for us humans and for our salvation he came down and became incarnate, became human, suffered and rose up on the third day, went up into the heavens, is coming to judge the living and the dead. And in the holy Spirit.
And those who say
“there once was when he was not”, and “before he was begotten he was not”, and that
he came to be from
things that were not, or
from another hypostasis [Gr. hypostaseos] or substance [Gr. ousias, Lat. substantia],
affirming that the Son of God is subject to change or alteration
these the catholic and apostolic church anathematises”
http://www.dailycatholic.org/history/1ecumen.htm
Also here: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11044a.htm
Other Canons of the Church dealing with areas that were cultural but affecting the Faith were discussed.
Consubstantiality is a major tenet of Christianity. Difficult, yes. Time consuming and dealt with Prayerfully, yes.
It is what the Church teaches.
Oh and yes, there are footnotes, from the Scriptures and the Fathers.
CS Lewis “It’s no good asking for a simple religion... That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys’ philosophies - these over-simple answers. The problem is not simple, and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
http://atkinslightquest.com/Documents/Religion/Special-Studies/MereChristianity.htm
Without Nicea and the Church there would be nothing but those who resemble Mormons and Unitarians.
Your religion already resembles the Mormon religion...
Why does copy and paste from your Catholic sites always include Greek and Latin words??? Is this to make the author more authoritative or somehow seem to add weight to the philosophy???