Chapter 7 How did they do that?
Chapter 7 How did they do that? Long time before the Council of Nicaea (325) was the Council of Antioch, in 267 A.D. At this council the doctrine of the trinity proposed by Sabellius was discussed. This Council is unknown and many do not know what decisions were made there. It is astonishing that what was proposed many years later at Nicaea, was also proposed at this council, but was rejected. The Greek term "homoousios" favored by Sabellius, but rejected at Antioch, ironically, was later favored at the Council of Nicaea. Sabellius was a third-century theologian. His Trinitarian theology is identical to the one we read in the Apocryphon of John, so the question arises whether he or one of his disciples is the author of this falsehood. Many did not know his excommunication from 220 at Rome and as Sabellius' theology became popular, a Council examining this teaching was convened in Antioch in 267 AD. At the Council of Antioch in 267 the church ...