People do not like the efficacy the gospel might be having on others who receive it. Plus it might be that those who receive it are enabled to escape the customs and life traps of the social group. So to hinder such escape from social control, to hinder those who receive the message with full persuasion of it from escaping the clutches of the community, the individuals of the social group would welcome and confusion and obfuscation of the message. The Romans were no exception. They may have been happy if the doctrines of three in one Trinity God got a bit confusing, obscuring the message, muddying the water, clouding the air, making it harder for others to accept it and control of them be lost. The gut feeling more educated people might have that this is a distortion of the truth, that it does not really tie in with the gospel message as found in scripture, this only helps assure them that nobody hearing it will be empowered by real faith and persuaded to follow Jesus Christ. To really cement the confusion it might have helped to have a stamp of officialdom applied to the Trinity orthodoxy, making it even less likely that effucacy of the true gospel would prevail in hearers. Hearing is by the word of God and persuasive faith is by hearing the true gospel, but if that gosoel gets corrupted with philosophical notions like three person one being Trinity God rather than one being one person Father God, then persuasion cannot take effect. Find the true gospel and hear it clearly preached, saving your soul. Jesus Christ died for you.
