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Actually they were ordered to come to this meeting, many of them didn't show up, becasue they knew it was wrong about the Trinity, it was pagan.
But some did attend. These didn't like it, but went along with it. Over time the Trinity came to be accepted into the Church. There is more no this in the bible, itself. But that is a little too advanced for what we are talking now.
What you have posted here is just rehash of anti-Trinitarian gossip, innuendo, and false accusations floating around the internet. There has never been any credible, verifiable, historical evidence provided to support any of this. Some unknown guy posts some of this stuff on his website, and a lot of other people quote it as if it were true.
All presiding bishops were requested, NOT ordered to attend the council. According to some estimates I have seen there were approximately 1775 bishops who did not attend. So according to the prevailing anti-Trinitarian account, what happened to them when they supposedly "disobeyed" Constantine? A: Absolutely nothing Because there was no such order.
How do you know why any bishop did not attend the council? Can you produce anything written by any bishop or historian who lived in 325 stating why they did or did not attend the council? A: No, you cannot because there is no such information. Can you produce anything written by any bishop who attended the council stating they did not like anything but they went along anyway? A: Again, no, you cannot because no such information exists! Nothing you have posted here has a grain of truth in it. It is all total fabrication!
I read this wild eyed story frequently but nobody has been able to tell me why all the Christians who supposedly said nothing and did nothing but just went along with the council, why didn't they go along and say nothing, and do nothing only a few years before when they were being hunted down like dogs, tortured and their families killed because they would not just go along and worship pagan idols and the emperor.
Why did many bishops not attend the Nicaean council? There were limited ways of traveling at that time. Most would have traveled by foot or donkey, hundreds of miles, through mountains, deserts, forests, and would have been in danger of attack by bandits daily. It would have been cold, the council began in May and many bishops would have to have started in March. The persecution of the church by Rome ended only 12 years before, most bishops bore the marks of torture in their bodies. You can read the real accounts in the histories of Eusebius and Lactantius who lived at the time.
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