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That's like 1200 years after the Nicean Creed before anyone in Christianity was saying anything like "monotheism."
The people in the Bible would be considered polytheists by today's absurd standard. They believed other gods existed and had power, but that Jesus and his Father were the ultimate Gods. The passages that people cite as showing that there is only "one" God are badly translated and misinterpreted and mean almost the exact opposite.
So for the vast majority of Christian history, Christians would have been considered "polytheists". They didn't go around telling people Zeus wasn't real, they were just showing people that Jesus was several orders of magnitude more awesome and important. Early Christian art even shows Jesus as Zeus and such. It's suspected that the gospels, especially Mark, are written in such a way to convince pagans that Jesus is the God of all gods. Him transforming water into wine is one of the big tells and you can find early depictions of Jesus as Bacchus.
Please show me where it was revealed and what it said. Go on.
> not very original
No, because it involved actually reading the Bible and understanding what was said, and actually looking up where the word "monotheism" came from and how it was first used. Boring stuff, I know.