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The view Jiang describes as making Jesus a lower god created by the supreme God rather than coequal with the Father.
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Arianism
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It was both man and God. And then the next debate is, what is the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God? Because..."
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Glossary
Explanation that God came first and created Jesus, making Jesus secondary to God.
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Arius' theory, as Jiang presents it, that God precedes and is superior to Jesus.
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Jiang lays out three alternatives that seemed more intelligible than orthodox trinitarianism: modalism, partialism, and Arianism, all of which the Church rejected.
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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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"It was both man and God. And then the next debate is, what is the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God? Because..."
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"...okay? Partialism also makes sense. And then you had something called Arianism. And Arian was a Christian theologian, and he argued that Jesus is..."
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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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"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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"...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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"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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