2015年1月20日 · Thirdly, Arius described the Son as not part of this universe: If the Son created all things (the universe), then He is not part of this universe. Furthermore, Arius and the Arians claimed time and again that the Son was begotten “before times and before aeons” (RH, 7). In other words, the Son was begotten before time even existed.

2023年1月19日 · Evidence that Arius was a follower of Lucian “A figure to whom many scholars have looked in order to explain the origins of Arius' thought is Lucian of Antioch:” “Arius describes Eusebius of Nicomedia, to whom he is writing, as 'a genuine fellow-disciple of Lucian'” (RH, 80), implying that Arius himself was a “disciple of Lucian.”

2023年1月21日 · Arius' insistence on the Son as an individual existing at God's will and receiving grace ironically makes it easier for him to treat the Son as both object and subject of worship.” (RH, 144) “Origen … anticipates developed fourth-century orthodoxy in this at least, that he comes close to saying that the Father-Son relationship it ...

2023年3月2日 · Arius, in the language of Scripture, `falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst,' and immediately expired as he lay, and was deprived both of communion and of his life together. Such has been the end of Arius. Could he have been poisoned instead? Perhaps but if so, the manner of his death was probably exaggerated.

For Christ, in Arius stance, would be greater than inanimate matter, plants, animals, men and angels. It seems that for Arius, he would be so great as to be "almost" as true God (but as Aquinas says above, for Arius he lacks eternity and omnipotence and …

2023年3月17日 · “Arius evidently made converts to his views … but he left no school of disciples.” (RW, 233) “Arius’ role in ‘Arianism’ was not that of the founder of a sect. It was not his individual teaching that dominated the mid-century eastern Church.” (RW, 165) “Arius was not accepted as leader of a new movement.” (RH, xvii-xviii)

2022年1月1日 · Much that went on long before Arius was born, and much that went on centuries after Arius had died, must be considered. If people cherry-pick ancient literature to claim a Christian taught against what has come to be known as the Trinity doctrine, when full examination of those writings shows the opposite, then one has to wonder what's going on ...

2018年2月1日 · It may help to understand that Arius wasn't stupid, but he also wasn't the source of the idea he championed; that is, that Christ had a beginning, that there was a time when Christ did not exist. To put it bluntly, he taught that Christ was a creature, not the Creator. Arius was after all a presbyter of the Church at Antioch at the time. He ...

“Arius himself came more and more to be regarded as a kind of Antichrist … a man whose superficial austerity and spirituality cloaked a diabolical malice, a deliberate enmity to revealed faith” (RW, 1). Arius' theology was discussed and rejected at Nicaea in 325.

2023年3月10日 · Arius’ bishop Alexander, in his letters, similarly stated “that Arius taught a mutable Logos, whose divine dignity is a reward for his unswerving spiritual fidelity” (RW, 104). Explanation In the Nicene Creed, the Son is begotten from the substance of the Father, implying that the Son has the same attributes as the Father, including ...