Council of Nicaea I on Election & predestination
The question is not framed in these terms
This locus asks in categories that came later. Assigning a stance would answer on the figure's behalf, so the summary records what was addressed instead.
And whosoever shall say that there was a time when the Son of God was not ... all that so say, the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes them.
THE POSITION
Nothing in the creed or the twenty canons treats the basis on which God chooses the saved. The council's business is the Son's relation to the Father, the date of Easter, and church order. Election as a locus — whether God's choice rests on his will alone or on foreseen faith — is given its shape by the Pelagian and semi-Pelagian disputes of the following century, and the vocabulary of that dispute is simply absent here. The third kind of blank.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Settled that the Son is homoousios — of one substance — with the Father, against Arius. Also fixed a common date for Easter and issued 20 disciplinary canons.
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"Council of Nicaea I on Election & predestination", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/nicaea-1/election (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/nicaea-1/election).