![]() ![]() His theology was recognized by the Council of Nicea as being the true Gospel of Christ, and as such it has been passed down the centuries. The Incarnation of the Word is Athanasius’ most famous writing, and his most celebrated statement of his case against the Arians. No mere creature could achieve this but only the very Word of God. God became a human to make humans divine the immortal became mortal to raise mortals to immortality. His main disagreement with Arius concerned salvation: we are saved because in Christ God himself became a human being and died a human death. ![]() ![]() Arius denied that Christ was truly and fully God, arguing from the Bible that only the Father was truly God, and the Son was the firstborn of creation.Īthanasius was his arch-enemy – and a deacon in the same church. In the fourth century, during the time of Constantine, the church was rocked by a controversy started by Arius, a deacon of the influential church of Alexandria in Egypt. ![]()
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