St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

In 325 AD, bishops, priests and deacons came from east and west to form the first of seven ecumenical councils, the Council of Nicaea, to meet around the specific need to discipline the false teaching of Arius, an extremely popular Priest, who insisted that Christ was a created being, not homousious – of the same eternal being with the Father (homoiousious - of a similar being). Though a presbyter, his influence was akin to a modern day “super-apostle”, for a majority network of churches gathered around his teaching. And he was extremely charismatic … incorporating this new revelation about Jesus and the Church; he also was a composer, creating loads of new worship material … applying much of his thinking into song with lyrics such as there was a time when he was not. For Arius, the pre-incarnate LOGOS was semidivine, created not eternally begotten, of one being with the Father. Let's go with John 1 and put Arius to rest: In the beginning was the Word (Logos) and the Word was with God and the Word WAS GOD