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44 Prophet Jesus (pbuh): A Prophet, Not A Son, of God

ually withdrawing from the stage of history toward the end of the fourth
century due to continued Church repression. Yet objections to the official
Nicene Creed continued, which meant that more councils had to be held
to debate the new ideas being put forward. Despite all of the arguments,
however, the superstitious belief in One in Three and Three in One was
never attacked. (This superstitious belief referred to God having three
different identities, all of which were equal, infinite and in common.)

During Constantine's reign, not only were such beliefs as the Nicene
Creed expanded, but the New Testament also assumed its current form.
No complete version of the New Testament in our possession today is any older
than the time of Constantine. 8
Throughout the 50 years that followed the Council of Nicaea,
Athanasius defended and further developed the Nicene formula, be-
cause the belief in the trinity had not yet assumed its final form. The third
member of the trinity, the Holy Spirit, remained vague. In the fourth cen-

tury, a second general council chaired by Macedonius, Patriarch of
Constantinople, met in the city (modern-day Istanbul). At its conclusion,
the council declared that the Holy Spirit was the third member of the
trinity, and that all three members were equal in terms of greatness. 9
(Surely God is beyond all that!) Therefore, trinitarianism assumed its
final form only four centuries after Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was
raised to God's presence. At this council, another belief not
found in the Bible was put forward: homoousion, that
the trinity's three members had the