[Cronos]

In fact Dave, your Swedenborgian texts may intereste boatbums:

What confidence is to be had in councils when they do not go directly to the God of the church?

From the Nicene Trinity and the Athanasian Trinity together a faith arose by which the whole Christian church has been perverted. That both the Nicene and Athanasian trinities are a trinity of Gods can be seen from the creeds above quoted

and it goes on to deny the divinity of the Holy Spirit etc. - -but all "purely scriptural", no need of any councils etc..

[Cronos]

Though Dave — question, about the Swedenborgians, doesn’t the New Church believe that Paul’s writings are not at the same level as the texts in the OT?

[Cronos]

Though Dave -- question, about the Swedenborgians, doesn't the New Church believe that Paul's writings are not at the same level as the texts in the OT?

Though bb may like "In the New Church, authority is based on Divine revelation, so using this to justify it's non-Trinitarian stance,right?

[DaveMSmith]

No where is the Divinity of the Holy Spirit denied in the Heavenly Doctrines. In your linked page, the only denial of Divinity was by Arius.

So far as councils, I see it as design by committee. As stated elsewhere, they are called in a crisis situation and mostly produced compromised language for creeds.

My question is for those who reject religion - why is the Trinity of persons held as gospel? The Apostles did not understand it that way.