“Is Peter a Christian because he didn’t call Jesus God?”
He calls him the Christ. What does Christ repeat back to him? He says, ‘Blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah, for you have been revealed this not by me, but by my father in heaven.
Right there in Matthew.
“Did Jesus sin when He didn’t correct him if he is God?”
Jesus not only declined to correct him, he elevated Peter over the other apostles. Again, all this is in Matthew.
“If you polled Christians, they would probably agree with you because of your Church’s teaching. That doesn’t mean it is true.”
Oh, it couldn’t be that Christ was truly the Son of God. Sir, you aren’t a Christian. That much is clear. You could be Muslim, though. Or Jewish. But not a Christian.
“The Apostles creed states that Jesus is the Son of God. I tend to believe them more than a decision made by men using a majority vote 300+ years later who made the penalty for disagreeing with them excommunication from their Church.”
Ahh, now we get to the gist of the matter. You are right that the creeds, Nicaean, Apostle’s and Athanasian Creeds all affirm that Christ is God.
Now my question to you, do you sincerely believe that you are of a greater authority than the Church at the time? You think they made that up out of whole cloth?
Look, Christ in the Temple says, “I have seen Abraham”, and then the Jews try to stone him. Why? Because they believed that he was claiming to be God.
“Christ never made believing He is God a requirement for being a member of His Church. Why would men?”
Really? Why then does he affirm Peter for his testimony that Jesus is the Christ?
John 8:24
This is why I told you that you would die in your sins. If you don’t believe that I Am, you will die in your sins.”