I do believe that the Catholics started the belief of the Holy Trinity of God. This belief says that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are 3 parts of the same being/person/entity taken from:
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
The Trinity belief was established in 325AD in the First Council of Nicaea and placed in the Nicene Creed. This was under the instruction and supervision of Constantine and the Catholic Bishops of that day. This is where our false doctrines began. Brief history lesson, this is where the Catholic Church was made the preferred religion of the state AFTER they adopted and put into practice many pagan beliefs and traditions. This is when Constantine claimed to be "Christian" once his sun god practices became part of their doctrines.
This meeting established the equality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity and asserted that only the Son became incarnate as Jesus Christ.
Nicene Creed:
We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, begotten from the Father before all ages, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made; of the same essence as the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, and was made human. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried. The third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures. He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead. His kingdom will never end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life. He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified. He spoke through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. We affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and to life in the world to come. Amen.
(A version of this was read by the entire congregation every Sunday in the Methodist Church I was raised in.)
The Nicene Creed, also called the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, is a statement of the orthodox faith of the early Christian church in opposition to certain heresies, especially Arianism.-taken from the link below.
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