Good grief...now you're bringing up Nicaea, for some reason? One of the two councils that no existing Christian tradition or Church disagrees with? Alright. That's more than enough humoring you. I've pointed numerous times to the many defenses of the Nicene definition to be found in the Church's own history from before any of the major separations (e.g., before that of Ephesus in 431, Chalcedon in 451, or among the Chalcedonians themselves following the mutual excommunications began in 1054, etc.) -- not the least of which to be counted upon is HH St. Athanasius' own defense in a document known in Latin as
De Decretis (On the Defense of the Decree of Nicaea), since all traditions give HH St. Athanasius the Apostolic a place of pride in having either drafted the Creed or co-drafted it -- so I'm pretty much done dealing with you and your antics, Peter.
If you are in need of a habit or hobby that isn't posting inane nonsense that has nothing to do with the topic of the thread, I would suggest studying the history of the Church from
primary source documents, which are many and quite easily available in English translation...at least those which are recognized by the Chalcedonians are, as that's the majority of Christianity, so they have done a great deal of the record-keeping, and historically did try to suppress others (just as the non-Chalcedonians did to the Chalcedonians in places where they were the majority and could not be suppressed themselves by the Byzantine Empire, such as Eastern Armenia, which was at the time controlled by the Sassanid Persians; the Armenian Chalcedonians were absorbed into Byzantine territories, and were probably over time Hellenized along with the Chalcedonian Syriacs, who were additionally later Arabized after the arrival of the Arab-Muslims in Jerusalem). The rest of us are catching up, however, and many of the foundational works of the saints and councils particular to the OO communion have been available for decades in English translation, such as the letters of HH Catholicos Babken II of the Armenians who oversaw the Council of Dvin in 506 which led to the Armenians' rejection of the Tome of Leo and Chalcedon; many of the letters of HH St. Severus of Antioch on various topics; some of the dialogues and teachings of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite of the White Monastery, who lived from long before Chalcedon to just after it, dying at a very old age in 466 AD; the monastic instructions of St. Philoxenos of Mabbug; an increasing number of the many, many sermons by St. Jacob of Serug; at least four of the sermons of St. Besa/Wisa, disciple and biographer of St. Shenouda; the defenses of Christianity and Christians from the charges of the Muslims by the likes of holy scholars such as St. Dionysius Bar Salibi or Abu Ra'ita al Takriti, etc.
So all of that can be found in various places. I've offered links before to places like Tertullian.org (though one should be careful there, as that is more a repository of all kinds of ancient Christian writings, including Nestorian and other types of texts), the Orthodox Church Fathers search engine (which is really just a much easier to navigate and 'Eastern Orthodox-ized' version of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at ccel.org, which I'd recommend now as the former is apparently currently hacked; hopefully it will be regained soon!), the e-Catena at earlychristianwritings.com, and so on. If you are seriously so intellectually lazy that you'll pretend to understand all of this from having read one website with a summary of Nicaea on it (and not the actual preserved acts of the council, which are available pretty much anywhere you look...hint hint), then there's really nothing anyone can do for you...particularly when you're not studying them for their actual historical value in explaining what you are seeing or subsequently see in the history of Christianity (since Mormons are never taught the actual history of Christianity, since if they were they'd see that 'great apostasy' that supposedly makes their religion necessary never actually happened), but instead as an excuse to ask more dumb questions that are answered in the historical sources themselves.
I'm tired of this, and won't be seeing any more of your future posts, so don't even bother with me. Go to the sources themselves. They have the answers you're looking for, with the added benefit that you will no longer have to derail threads in this fashion simply because I happen to be posting in them while being Oriental Orthodox and you apparently think that means something with regard to Mormonism's purposeful teaching of falsehood regarding the early Church itself. Go away and study something so that you may learn. At least then if you still accept Mormonism and reject Christianity, it will be from a minimally historically-informed perspective.
Here's a website with a collection of translations of a bunch of documents from the Seven Ecumenical Councils as recognized by the Eastern Orthodox (i.e., including the two recognized by the Nestorians, the three recognized by the Oriental Orthodox, and the later ones up to 787 AD), plus several local councils dating from 257 to 869 AD. I recommend it to
anyone who wants to know Christian history from its preserved documents, although these are obviously only a tiny fraction of them, and from a particular perspective (Chalcedonian, Eastern Orthodox) by virtue of what is included and what is not.
Best wishes to you, Peter. You're a nice guy, but I just can't do this anymore. It's not fair to the people who start threads with the expectation that they will be about what they are intended to be about, and it would be one thing if this were an organic evolution away from the OP, but it isn't. It
never is when you bring this kind of stuff up out of nowhere, and I suspect everyone recognizes the "throw everything against the wall to see what sticks" approach when they see it. It's enough now. Time to end that in favor of learning. Good luck. May the Holy Spirit guide you to the true worship of the perfect, uncreated, and indivisible Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- the One God.