section_path: Outcomes/Nicene Creed/Anathemas
section_name: Anathemas
paragraph_text: Anathemas
  
  At the end of the creed came a list of anathemas, designed to repudiate explicitly the Arians' stated claims.
  
  Thus, instead of a baptismal creed acceptable to both the Arians and their opponents, the Council promulgated one which was clearly opposed to Arianism and incompatible with the distinctive core of their beliefs. The text of this profession of faith is preserved in a letter of Eusebius to his congregation, in Athanasius' works, and elsewhere. The Homoousians (from the Koine Greek word translated as "of same substance" which was condemned at the Council of Antioch in 264–268) were supported by Constantine and Hosius and were able to advance the use of the term, thus the creed was accepted by the council.