During the 3rd and 4th centuries controversy arose among the leaders and population due to the rising questioning of the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ. At the beginning of the fourth century, the First Council of Nicaea was convened to come against the heretical teachings of Arius. Arius, a presbyter from Alexandria, along with his followers, believed that “before [the Son] was begotten or created or defined or established, he was not for he was not unbegotten and that the Son had a beginning but God has no beginning” (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002. Print.). Therefore according to Arius, Jesus Christ was not eternal nor divine but only possessed divine attributes. As time went
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If it was the "human person" then the redemption is not divinely acquired (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002. Print.) as well as Eutychianism, which supported the idea that Jesus Christ was of one nature that contained a mixture of divine and human nature was also known as monophysitism, which held that Jesus Christ had only one nature, a mixture of both divine and human …show more content…
This councils main directory was to condemn the heretical teaching of Arius; to conclude the controversy regarding the Trinity and to bring unity to the Church. The main confrontation was based around the words "homoiousias" and "homoousias." (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002. Print). Arius, who supported the theological propaganda of Origen, said that Christ was “homoiousias” (of like substance) with God, that is, “that Christ was similar to God yet not the same nature or essence as God”. (Lane, Tony. A Concise History of Christian Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006. Print.) Athanasius said Christ was homoousias (of the same nature) as God, is, that Christ was equivalent basically with God, of the same importance. (Lane, Tony. A Concise History of Christian Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.
If it was the "human person" then the redemption is not divinely acquired (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002. Print.) as well as Eutychianism, which supported the idea that Jesus Christ was of one nature that contained a mixture of divine and human nature was also known as monophysitism, which held that Jesus Christ had only one nature, a mixture of both divine and human …show more content…
This councils main directory was to condemn the heretical teaching of Arius; to conclude the controversy regarding the Trinity and to bring unity to the Church. The main confrontation was based around the words "homoiousias" and "homoousias." (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002. Print). Arius, who supported the theological propaganda of Origen, said that Christ was “homoiousias” (of like substance) with God, that is, “that Christ was similar to God yet not the same nature or essence as God”. (Lane, Tony. A Concise History of Christian Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006. Print.) Athanasius said Christ was homoousias (of the same nature) as God, is, that Christ was equivalent basically with God, of the same importance. (Lane, Tony. A Concise History of Christian Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.