The earliest form of theology is not necessarily the most correct, authoritative, or complete—especially if one believes in progressive revelation. For example, if one believes, as I do, that the doctrine of the Trinity represents not an evolution (a change from one thing into another) in Christian belief about God’s being but rather the development, fuller understanding, and more complete expression of the truth that was always present in Scripture, then clearly one should not become non-Trinitarian simply because a Nicaean understanding of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is not explicitly
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