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…
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“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…
Open record →The Arius We Are Testing
Before a biblical reading can be called Arian, Arianism must be reduced to exact historical propositions rather than used as a loose term for any weakening of a…
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