I personally think some of the comments on this site can get pretty ridiculous at times, more importantly, they can utterly obliterate an otherwise important message. However, you know what is said about opinions and how they are like a particular body part (everybody’s got one, and they all stink). The thing I have seen that truly ruins credibility is when atheists/agnostics/whatever pontificate about the Bible, yet they don’t believe in it in the first place.
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Let's simplify and clarify this further, as it's sorely needed in this discussion:
Constantine was the Roman Emperor. He very much thought that he should have been able to know what was going on re: Christian doctrines. He had no desire to shape any of them, and he did not.
He wanted all of Christendom to declare what this thing was. In writing. That's a very Roman thing to do, and it had never been done at that time. Although both the Apostle's Creed and the Didache predate the Nicene Creed possibly by hundreds of years.
Anyone trying to understand ANY of this has to read the Didache, and I have to question how many here have ever even heard of it.
Absolutely nothing new was created at the Council of Nicea. Some disputes were settled, according to the Scriptures. All of the first five ecumenical councils focused on Christology.