We desire that all peoples subject to Our benign Empire shall live under the same religion that the Divine Peter, the Apostle, gave to the Romans, and which the said religion declares was introduced by himself, and which it is well known that the Pontiff Damasus, and Peter, Bishop of Alexandria, a man of apostolic sanctity, embraced; that is to say, in accordance with the rules of apostolic discipline and the evangelical doctrine, we should believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit constitute a single Deity, endowed with equal majesty, and united in the Holy Trinity.
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This law here doesn’t mention Paul.
1 Peter is focusing on submission and obedience. The enemy is the devil, not the Romans. 1 Peter 5:8
1 Peter 1:1, those places are far away from Rome, but part of the Roman Empire or soon to be.
1 Peter, the words Jew, Gentile, are not written even once, nor is Son of God.
Jewish sectarian Christianity, the form of worship and practice most closely resembling that of Jesus himself, was later declared a heresy.
But they’re not really heresies until someone presumes the authority to denounce them.
A most excellent point. Winners write the histories – and form the canons! If the Arians had won the argument at Nicaea then Trinitarians would be looked back on as “heretics”. It could have happened. Arians were in the majority even long after Nicaea.
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