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I have read the Koran and have a copy. Here's an even bigger hint: the Jewish OT God is not a Trinity either. He is monotheistic in the exact sense, as is Allah. Islam treats Jesus as holy. Judaism does not.

A little over a year ago, you posted your belief that the Trinity could not found in the Synoptic Gospels, that the Apostle Paul "definitely" did not subscribe to a Nicene Trinitarian view, and that only "some" evidence for a Triune God could be found within John's Gospel. Only one apostle could be considered Trinitarian?

At least one Catholic FReeper has posted that they do not trust any doctrine not found expressed within the Synoptic Gospels. You seem to be making some cultists' case that the Council of Nicea made up the doctrine of the Trinity out of whole cloth.

"You seem to be making some cultists' case that the Council of Nicea made up the doctrine of the Trinity out of whole cloth."

I have read most of Markbsnr's posts and I think you are engaged in yet another case of character assassination by misquote, partial quotes and innuendo. It is part of a bigger pattern. You have on several occasions posted out of context and completely falsified interpretations of my own posts.

In tens of thousands of posts I can't recall you ever posting any original thoughts, everything is a cut and paste that, collectively forms a mosaic of your anti-Catholicism.

Since you have decided to enter the fray, why don't you post stop sniping and start expressing some of your own thoughts.

What role do you believe the Nicene Creed should play in the formation of faith? Do you fully support the tenets of Christianity as expressed in the Nicene Creed? Should the Nicene Creed be the lens through which the Bible should be interpreted? Did the Nicean Creed precede and shape the Canon of the Bible, or did the Bible shape the Nicene Creed? Where is the Catechism of the Catholic Church at odds with any part of the Nicene Creed?

A little over a year ago, you posted your belief that the Trinity could not found in the Synoptic Gospels, that the Apostle Paul "definitely" did not subscribe to a Nicene Trinitarian view, and that only "some" evidence for a Triune God could be found within John's Gospel. Only one apostle could be considered Trinitarian?

Hello, Alex. Did somebody overturn your rock? No matter. The answer is that the Synoptic Gospels and the Pauline letters do not prove a Trinitarian view, and the Trinitarian formula cannot be composed until the writings of John are used.

At least one Catholic FReeper has posted that they do not trust any doctrine not found expressed within the Synoptic Gospels. You seem to be making some cultists' case that the Council of Nicea made up the doctrine of the Trinity out of whole cloth.

I don't know what the context was, or how accurately you are conveying this information or what said FReeper (whoever it was) was meaning to say. Nicea was convened to settle the Arian question, which was splitting the Church in two. We know how it was settled. The various factions who are still developing from the ruins of Reformation are still attempting to second guess Church decisions over the millennia.