The same people that gave the Catholic Church the Triune God,also gave the Catholic Church the original “Inquisition” through the “Eddict of Thessalonica” in the early 400s.
The only reason that the “Triune” God eventually triumphed is because the opposition was literally murdered through imperial capital punishment, as authorized by the “Eddict”.
Personally, I can’t imagine Christ relying on an Emperor’s Imperial persecution/murders to establish his doctrines. This is generally how Satan prefers to operate.
The main proponent of the “Trinity” was the so called “Saint” Athenasius. Athenasius had a reputation as a thug, and was later sainted because without, the doctrine of the Trinity would be in the dustbin of history.
It is quite ironic though that the main linch-pin of the Trinity, also taught “God became man, so that men may become Gods” which is more of an LDS teaching. Which is not to say that man can become as God the Father, but that God created mankind as essentially, God in Embryo, as the Apostle Paul taught in the New Testament.
Christianity is alot more rife with controversy than your poor little mind is capable of fathoming. Much of current Christian main stream was won through the principle of “Might makes Right” rather than a spiritual/scholar triumph of scriptural interpretation.
Then, why, why WHY teppe do mormons keep insisting as this woman does in the article that "mormons are Christians"?
When I was a mormon, there was continual boasting from the pulpit that mormons were NOT like those ignorant Christians.
Someone in the mormon church decided that more converts/more money could be gained by pretending to accept Christianity. But the belief remains that ONLY through mormon membership and taking part in arcane rituals in mormon temples can salvation be gained.
Mormonism is the "Great Pretender".
Both history and religion are written by the winners. Who knows what Christianity will look like in a 1000 years?
I think your poor little mind can’t comprehend the necessity of a unique yet diverse creator as a precondition for creation. You might want to spend some time pondering the word universe.
Tepid, you are repeating LDS mis-statement of Christian Church history.
The Trinity was believed and taught long before Constantine. The council just restated a position that was in line with the Bible and early Christian thought.
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid and actually study Christian church history.
Ok so no trinity, then how many gods are there?
We got the doctrine of the Triune God from Jesus Christ before he ascended into heaven: "...baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
The main opponents of this Trinitarian doctrine were the Arians, who taught that Jesus, the Son, was a created being, inferior to God. That included Constantine, who chose an Arian bishop, Eusebius of Nicomedia, to baptize him; his son and successor in the east, Constantius II, an Arian who even exiled Nicene bishops; (Constantius' successor Julian the Apostate was a pagan); eventually succeeded in the east by Valens who was, again, an Arian.
So the Nicene (Trinitarian) doctrine wasn't exactly a favorite for Constantine and his successors.
Finally, Theodosius, whose Edict--- it's spelled "Edict of Thessalonica"--- resulted the destruction of pagan temples and the outlawing of animal sacrifice and the reading of entrails, had nothing to do with the Inquisition.
Arianism's main adherents after the Council of 481 were the Germanic tribes (e.g. the Goths, Vandals, Lombards), who in fact invaded and ravaged Catholic Europe.
An anti-trinity faction didn't resurface again until almost 1,000 years later, in the early Protestant Reformation. For instance, first recorded English antitrinitarian was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.