The first ecumenical council, the Council of Nicaea (325 AD), was polytheistic!! And that is quite clear and demonstrable.
This council clearly proclaims a polytheistic faith, speaking of (God) the Father and the Son (Jesus) as two gods.
Christians are perhaps most proud of being monotheists, of not being pagans who believe in multiple gods. But unfortunately, they have lost their monotheistic pride. The evidence is clear. Some Christians may even have a mental breakdown from this article, as they previously thought the church was telling them the truth in everything. Dear Christian believers, the church has deceived you. The church was polytheistic in the past, and only later did a monotheistic teaching of the Divine Trinity develop from it.
And we are going to look at specific evidence of polytheism:
We must realize that Greek and Roman mythology says that the gods had their fathers, sons, and grandsons. And the Nicene Creed, although it can be said that it was compiled more or less according to the teachings of the Bible, sounds purely polytheistic: it speaks of the existence of two gods: God the Father and his God the Son (Jesus).
In addition, we must consider that Christianity was officially introduced and imposed in the Roman Empire only after the Council of Nicaea. Until then, the official religion of the Roman Empire was paganism. This means that Christianity was a minority in the Roman Empire, and the pagan mentality was much stronger in society than the Christian one. Therefore, there is no doubt that the Nicene Creed was also understood purely paganly by Christian believers. Most of the priests and bishops at the council were converted pagans (or their parents), so they had a strong pagan consciousness and there is no doubt that they understood this council paganly. Moreover, if pagans converted to Christianity after the council under the bloody pressure of state power, they again had no choice but to understand the council paganly (because even after baptism, their pagan thinking remained).
The teaching of the Divine Trinity states that there is unity between the three persons. But the Nicene Creed does not mention any unity of the Father and the Son (and the Holy Spirit) !! And in fact, it does, if we take into account the incorrect translation of one essence with the Father. With this wrongly modified translation, the church wanted to cover up the case of polytheistic Christianity. The phrase "one essence" suggests that it is the unity of the three Divine persons. However, the correct translation of "same essence" only means that the Father and the Son are equal gods, that Jesus is not a demigod but a full-fledged god (namely, the main goal of the Council of Nicaea was to condemn Arianism, which did not recognize the divinity of Christ and considered Jesus to be an ordinary prophet).
Furthermore, the creed mentions that Jesus was not begotten by the Father. This sounds quite pagan (as with the gods in Roman mythology), when according to the creed, Jesus was begotten by the Father. The Council of Nicaea is a true disgrace to Christianity, as it adopted so much teaching from pagan mythology!! The official Slovak translation is, of course, bad; theologians tried to cover up the embarrassing issue with the poor translation of "begotten" as much as they could. The English translation uses the term "begotten."
The official text of the Nicene Creed (incorrectly translated words are underlined and corrected):
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten (correct translation: engendered) of the Father, that is, of the essence of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten (correct translation: engendered) , not created,
of one essence with the Father (incorrect translation of the Greek word homoousian, correctly: "of the same essence as the Father"),
through whom all things were made – those in heaven and those on earth – who for us humans and for our salvation came down and was incarnated, became man, suffered and on the third day rose, ascended into heaven, will come to judge the living and the dead.
And in the Holy Spirit.
Source of information: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicejsk%C3%A9_vyznanie_viery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousian
This is a really correctly corrected translation on my part, and everyone can verify it. You need to find the Greek original and look up each word in Google. There are translation dictionaries of Ancient Greek into English. You can put the Greek word and the English word lexicon into the search.
As you can see, the Nicene Creed only speaks of the equality of the Father and the Son. That is, they are both equal, so neither of them is greater or smaller. However, there is no mention of any unity, as in the case of the Holy Trinity.
Contemporary Christians proudly speak of how the Roman Empire abandoned "primitive" paganism in the past and introduced "progressive" Christianity. But the truth is different: it was pagan Christianity, the church proclaimed a clear polytheistic-Christian faith.
Of course, the church later realized that it had gone too far and that it had to cover up the controversial pagan case in Christianity as much as possible. Later, the controversial teaching of the church about the Trinity (three persons and yet one God) began to form: at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Chalcedonian Creed was created, where the unity of the Father and the Son is mentioned for the first time https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkedonsk%C3%A9_vyzn%C3%A1n%C3%AD
The infallibility of the Church
And finally, I would like to say one more thing: there is nothing more ridiculous and primitive in the Catholic Church than the First Vatican Council, which declared the dogma of the infallibility of the Church , according to which the official theological statements and teachings of every Pope are 100% "true" and no Pope "can" be wrong because he is so strongly united with the Holy Spirit. When I think of the dogma of infallibility, one doesn't know whether to cry from so much blindness and brainwashing by the Catholic Church or to laugh at so much stupidity.
The teaching of the Catholic Church has changed many times throughout history, old things were abolished and new ones introduced. So what kind of infallibility?
Perhaps the biggest change in the Church's teaching throughout history was the change from polytheistic to monotheistic.