these two Greek terms were treated as synonyms, which created much confusion and debate after Nicaea. To some, it sounded like Nicaea was saying that the person of the Son is the same person as the Father. Some thought the creed had succumbed to Sabellianism, an early church heresy that said there is only one divine person (not three) who merely reveals himself in three different ways.30 In an attempt to emphasize the equality of the Son with the Father through eternal generation, had the creed confused