The Council of Nicaea was convened by Constantine, a catechumen who wasn’t baptized until his deathbed in 337. Its key word, homoousios, appears nowhere in scripture; Athanasius admits the bishops adopted it because every Bible phrase also applied to people. Here’s what Eusebius, Socrates, and Jerome actually record, the myths to drop, and how Acts 15 settled doctrine instead.
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Nephi says Ishmael was buried in “the place which was called Nahom,” and then the family traveled “nearly eastward.” Three altars from a temple near Marib in Yemen name a donor as “the Nihmite,” and they date to around Lehi’s time. Here is the evidence, the route to Bountiful, and the fair caveats. Part 8 of 10.
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The Shema uses echad, the same Hebrew word as “one flesh.” John 10:30 uses the Greek neuter hen, not “one person.” And in John 17 Jesus prays that His disciples “may be one, as we are.” A word study on what the Bible means by “one,” with scholars on both sides.
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Critics quote Matthew 16:18, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,” as proof the church could never fall away. But “hell” there is hadēs, the realm of the dead, and gates hold people in. Christ went into Hades and came out with “the keys of hell and of death,” the gospel was preached to the dead, and Peter received the keys of the kingdom. Here is what the Greek, the keys, and the New Testament’s own apostasy warnings say.
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Critics call the Great Apostasy a Latter-day Saint invention, but Paul, Peter, John, and Jude wrote it down first. From the “falling away” of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and the wolves of Acts 20 to “doth already work,” “so soon removed,” and “even now are there many antichrists,” the New Testament records the apostles watching the falling away begin, and it promises a “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21).
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