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“One of the greatest threats to Christianity is calling anything you don’t like or don’t understand ‘the greatest threat to Christianity.’” - Michael J. Svigel

I received the answer I was looking for. Thanks again for watching the video clips.

From AD 381 on, 100%. Between 325 and 381 the percentage is unknown. The best information we have preserved is the testimony that “many” did not.

* Quality over quantity, but 46% no quantity is a reading crisis. *

”I didn’t mean to become a Christian.” @Riven when I listen to him, I hear echoes of you.

Example. “[Jesus] was a first-century Jewish monotheist.” (N.T. Wright, Jesus And The Victory of God, p. 652) Wright is a trinitarian (Anglican). He affirms the Nicene creed. There is only one reason that he makes this concession about Jesus -> the constraints of history.

Jesus himself is a Jewish monotheist. That is a constraint of history. Trinitarian scholarship acknowledges it. If someone wants to deny that Jesus is a Jewish monotheist, they will. I can’t stop them from doing it, but they won’t ever be able to persuade me that he isn’t. Jesus himself doesn’t...

No, the Father himself isn’t a monotheist. The Son himself is a Jewish monotheist. God himself calling Jesus theos - which he does - doesn’t literally make Jesus God himself. Jesus is functionally God, not literally God, in the theology of Jewish monotheism. Dr. Witherington (and other...

There’s nothing to argue about. Jesus is a Jewish monotheist. Scripture aligns with him, not against him. Of course I will. Everyone will.

”We need better answers. We need to know if this is true evidentially.”

The Nicene Creed doesn’t tell us “what we Jews worship”. One could, however, look at the creed and, remembering what Gregory of Nyssa said concerning the concept destroying the heresy of Jewish monotheism, reverse engineer it to get “what we Jews do not worship”.

I hadn’t planned to quote Schaff in this thread but since you’ve expressed an interest - ”Even among the adherents of Nicene orthodoxy an uncertainty still for a time prevailed respecting the doctrine of the third person of the Holy Trinity. Some held the Spirit to be an impersonal power or...

That sounds different than analyzing written reports prepared by human persons who were themselves eyewitnesses of supernatural events surrounding Jesus or who were preserving in writing the eyewitness accounts given to them by persons who were. That‘s humorous but it doesn’t inspire much...