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Explanation that God came first and created Jesus, making Jesus secondary to God.
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Arianism
Explanation that God came first and created Jesus, making Jesus secondary to God.
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Glossary
Arius' theory, as Jiang presents it, that God precedes and is superior to Jesus.
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Modalism, partialism, and Arianism are intelligible story-forms for the divine relationship, but Jiang says each leaves a problem unresolved.
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"...too, right? Okay, and the third idea is the idea of Arianism. Arianism. And Arianism is just the idea that God came first, and..."
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"...The last theory I wanna talk about is the idea of Arianism. And Arianism was created by a religious teacher named Arius. And his..."
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"So God is a higher being than Jesus. Jesus is still great, but God is the superior being, okay? And again, not great, okay,..."
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"Okay, so there have been different theories proposed to explain the relationship between God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. Okay? Okay, so let's look..."
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"Not these three. Okay, this doesn't really make sense. And Arianism doesn't really make sense, because the entire point of Christianity is to say..."
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"discussed, one more popular interpretations, explanations is the idea of Arianism, where Jesus is a lesser divinity to God. Okay. The Council of Nicaea..."
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