Of course Rome didn’t create Christianity .... however, it surely changed it.
Exhibit 1: Nicene Creed. When Christ cried out on the cross ‘My God, My God .... why hast thou forsaken me’ ....
Christ was not crying out to himself! The Nicene Creed has been placed higher than the Bible in determining ‘Heresy’.
A person’s beliefs can be in accordance with the Bible, yet he is still labelled a heretic if he does not subscribe to the Nicene Creed.
Truly the tail has been waging the dog within what is known as Orthodox Christian Christology.
What, specifically, is in the Creed that is not in the Bible?
Seriously asking.
Your assignment: read it from beginning to end. Comment on its status as prophecy. Thank you.
The christological theology that developed in the early Church was a response to Christians who read the Bible and concluded that Jesus wasn’t God, as well as to those read the Bible and concluded that Jesus wasn’t a human being, the most extreme ones claiming that he didn’t even have a true physical body. Kudos to the Fathers of the councils, and to God, for straightening that out.
Hear, Hear! Very nicely said.
Acts 2:36 makes it plain for those who have ears.
One God and one Lord, simple.
Trinitarians don't think that he was; the Athanasian creed quite clearly explains that the Son is not the Father.
I always considered ‘My God, My God .... why hast thou forsaken me’ .... to be Christ as “The Son” who had never been separated from God “the Father”, taking on all the sins of the world, and experiencing for the first time the bar that sin places between one and God - for the first time in eternity (is that even a cogent phrase?) He tasted sin and lost contact with God the Father...