Arius
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Sep 11, 2026
DuneHOST
[chuckles] Like, it doesn't start there, but-
TitusHOST
Martin Luther took from Arius
DuneHOST
...
DuneHOST
it, it becomes a German heresy.
JDHOST
It's, uh-
Michael PaganoHOST
You're, you're so blasphemous that Arius would've been upset with you.
Michael PaganoHOST
Arius would've-
JDHOST
Yeah
Michael PaganoHOST
... been like, "What are you saying right now?"
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Michael PaganoHOST
We know that Peter did it.
Michael PaganoHOST
We know that John did it.
Michael PaganoHOST
Like, and if you think small, like you're ready for this, they'll say, "Well, judge them by their fruits." Do you guys realize that the entire letter of 1 John is rejecting a group of people who believed that Jesus, um, well, they believed in a version of Jesus, and they believed in certain things like love? Like Arius, for example.
Jay DyerHOST
That is the classic patristic biblical interpretation.
Jay DyerHOST
If you are an Arian... as Muslims essentially are, and you also go further than Arius and say that Allah is not a father, you have gone even further into saying that the deity of the Old Testament is not the deity of Islam.
Jay DyerHOST
Because Jesus says that his God is his father.
Jay DyerHOST
Islam 101 says Allah has no sons.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
It first erupted in Alexandria under his predecessor, Alexander.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
And Alexander was the first to discipline Arius.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
Arius had this kind of rationalistic approach to Christian thinking.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
And he kind of eviscerated the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the incarnation and made it more amenable to pagans, right? By saying, you know, hey, three doesn't equal one.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
So we're going to stop talking that way.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
And there are some people who will believe anything.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
So he starts promoting this and he gets some very influential allies.
Mike AquilinaGUEST
And Athanasius is the one who stands up to defend the apostolic tradition against this attack, against this incursion by Arius and his followers.
James WhiteHOST
And, uh, totally different context.
James WhiteHOST
The First Nicene Council is thirteen years, twelve years actually, after the end of imperial persecution of Christianity, where Christianity becomes a religio licita and, um, it is, uh, focused upon the deity of Christ, the relationship between the Father and the Son in response to Arius and his teaching that there was a time when the Son was not.
James WhiteHOST
And while Constantine was...
James WhiteHOST
the Emperor was involved with the council, calling of the council, imperial funds used to bring the council together, the role of the Emperor was minimal.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
In former religions, even as testified by history, it has become evident that when in a question of this kind a difference has arisen between two of the doctors of religion, both parties were firm in their standpoints and held tenaciously to their sides, while the laity, according to their usage, would adhere some to one and some to the other, thus closing the doors to agreement and unity to such an extent that religious fraternity was changed into deep and bitter enmity, scientific dissension terminating in bloody strife and warfare.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
This is illustrated by differences which arose between Arius the priest and Alexander the bishop of Constantinople regarding the Trinity in the 4th century AD.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Also the Nestorian differences which took place in the 5th century between Nestorius the bishop of Constantinople and the other bishops, which caused terrible wars and the shedding of precious blood.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
The effect of these sad dissensions has lasted until the present day.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
It's in that statement.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
And Arius, who's the guy behind Arianism, he writes a text called the Thalia, which means banquet.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
And he uses that word and he says, this is unacceptable.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
Homoousius.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
Homoousius is unacceptable.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
Therefore...
Brian ThomasonGUEST
Usias, right, Bishop Usias, he knows Arius' writings.
Brian ThomasonGUEST
And he says, okay, Arius has condemned this word, which means there's no backtracking.
Albert MohlerHOST
I talked about Nicaea and got full agreement.
Albert MohlerHOST
And I just made the point that we have to be careful with our sentences because the difference between what Arius proposed and what Nicaea adopted to the average person might not sound like a difference at all.
Albert MohlerHOST
That's right.
Albert MohlerHOST
And yet the entire Christian faith hangs on that difference.
Lane TiptonGUEST
The possibility of Christ sinning and falling is unthinkable.
Lane TiptonGUEST
For that reason, Christian theology maintained against Arius, Pelagians, nominalists such as Duns, Scotus, Beale, Durandus, Molina, and others that Christ could not sin.
Lane TiptonGUEST
For in that case, either God himself would have to be able to sin, which is blasphemy, or the union between the divine and human nature is considered breakable
Camden BuseyHOST
and, in fact, immoral.
Andrew BainHOST
That was still continuing on.
Andrew BainHOST
But you've got a new guy in the mix, a guy by the name of Arius.
Andrew BainHOST
Sorry, to And his core belief, his core understanding was that Christ is God, but he's not the eternal God.
Andrew BainHOST
What he believed was that there was always the eternal God, but then he was the creator God.
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