Early Christian Writings Essay

In the beginning of IV century Arius announced that the founder is the only one veritable God, and the Son is His creation. Son was created from nothing, but He has an advantage over the some other people, because He was created before time and centuries. Arius teaching is one of the forms of control, a teaching roughly subordination of the Son to the Father, and the Saint Spirit to the Son. Arius has the following positions 1. Logos had the beginning of his being ( , erat, quando non erat), because in other case there wouldnt be any monarchy.In such case could be workable a diarchy (two principles), because He wouldnt be the Son, the Son is not the Father. 2. Logos started his existence not from the essence of Father this could lead to division or partition of Divine Creature, or to sensual concepts, which could express down the God to human world, but He was created from nothing by his Fathers go away 3. He has existence before-time and before-world, but it is not eternal existence so He is not the veritable God, but he is different from God-Father by his essence, he is a creature (, ) and Testament uses such expressions active Him 4. Although the Son is a creature by essence, he has advantage over other people, because he shit supreme qualities after the God. The God created everything through Him. First of all God created Him, as the beginning of all paths 5. In case they call the Son equal to the God you should understand that He is equal by His Fathers will. 6. His will, as it was created, primarily was changeable equally inclined both for good and to evil.horse parsley tried to convince Arius that he was wrong by admonitions, although without success. After fruitless attempts Alexander invited bishops from Egypt and Lebanon and by will of Council expels Arius from Alexandria as well as his followers. There was found The Synodal Letter of the Council of Antioch, which condemns principles of Arius, but not strictly. Almost all bishop s signed this letter (except of three bishops). Alexander tries also to warn other bishops about danger of heresy and, finally, writes a letter to Emperor Constantine the Great.The emperor regrets about quarrels in the church and asks to make peace. It was impossible, and a little bit later the Church calls Nicaea Council, where after long debates the Church wrote figure of belief and adopted it. Arius didnt agree (his followers also protested to symbol of belief and sham that they agree, changed a letter in word omousius (similar, like instead of mono-, uni-) and signed the document. The Church spy falsification, condemned teaching of Arius and expelled him. .