DID THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA ABANDON MONOTHEISM?
At first glance, this doctrine that teaches Yeshua is God sounds like an abandonment of monotheism (the teaching that God is one) and a reversion to polytheism (the teaching that there are many gods). The church has traditionally rejected this interpretation (monotheism) and insisted that in spite the doctrine of monotheism they wished to hold to the threefold nature of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). According to Christianity, each person of the God-head was to be understood as fully equal to the others, yet there is also a oneness in God which makes the Christian triune God continuous with the one God of the Hebrew Bible. While the Christian insistence on the oneness of God, in spite of the three co-equal persons in God, is a source of satisfaction to Jews because it barely keeps Christianity within a monotheistic framework, it must also be said that Judaism finds a “three that are one” doctrine virtually impossible to understand, especially in the light of the teaching that only
