In other words then, it's a wild guess...It's not an understanding, it's a decree...And it has no more meaning that what you or I may come up with to define and describe the Trinity...All that we know about the Trinity is in the scriptures, alone...
Iscool:
No, the Councils of the Church represent the CHurch speaking with authority under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and notice that Nicea (325 AD) and Constantinopile (381 AD) both occurred before the NT canon was totally defined at the Councils of Hippo and Carthage, 393 and 397, respectively.
So I believe the Creeds, dogmatic doctrinal statements from those Councils, are authoritative otherwise we fall into Lone ranger Christianity, which is ultimately where you end up, i.e. that you are in essence your own Church Council and/or Pope. I believe what they believe and they professed back then what I believe now and those Same Church Fathers in the early Church are the same ones who decided the orthodox biblical canon versus the canons held by various heretical gnostic sects and the faith of the Fathers and their understanding of the scriptures reflects the theology of the CHurch that was used to define doctrines at these same Councils.