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Arianism: When Jesus (a.s.) was Not God

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Arianism is a Christian heresy which arose in the fourth century.   Arians denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ ( a.s. ).   Arianism bears the distinction of being one of the earliest, and most enduring doctrinal dispute in ecclesiastical history.   Arianism’s main contention is that Jesus ( a.s. ) is not the Second Person in the Trinity and denies the Divine Mystery.   Mainstream Christianity, which is Pauline by creed, bases its theology on select verses of the canonical gospels – gospels that the Pauline faction made canonical.   Matthew 11:27 27 “My Father has Entrusted everything into my hands; none knows the Son truly except the Father, and none knows the Father truly except the Son, and those to whom it is the Son’s good pleasure to reveal him.”   27 Πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐπιγινώσκει τὸν υἱὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ πατήρ, οὐδὲ τὸν πατέρα τις ἐπιγινώσκει εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱὸς καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν βούληται ὁ υἱὸς...