The Demiurge and the Good Creator
The lower-creator systems did not merely distinguish God from creation. They placed the visible world under a maker other than the supreme Father and divided Christ from the…
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Why “Gnosticism” Must Remain Plural
The movements commonly grouped under Gnosticism did not confess one creed. A defensible textual indictment must name the teacher, the system, and the exact proposition before judging a…
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What Textual Evidence Would Count as Arian?
A shorter or altered reading may weaken an anti-Arian proof without teaching Arianism. This article fixes the five doctrinal-effect classes and the proof required for a reading, an…
Open record →Subordination Without Arianism?
The Father sends and the incarnate Son obeys, yet Father and Son remain equal in the one divine essence. The textual audit must distinguish personal order, redemptive mission,…
Open record →Begotten, Not Made
Arius could call Christ begotten while treating that begetting as creaturely production. Nicaea’s ‘not made’ guarded the scriptural boundary between the natural Son and every work made through…
Open record →“There Was When He Was Not”
Arius placed the Son before the ages but still gave him a beginning. Scripture’s answer is not merely that Christ is very old, but that the eternal Word…
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