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Christian History Magazine—Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

“There was a time when the Son was not,” sang Arius, a 4th century Libyan bishop and poster child of early church heresy. Debates covered a wide range of issues, from wealth to wild charismaticism to non-Trinitarianism, but none was more central to preserving the Christian faith than the personhood of Jesus Christ. Discussions of his divinity and humanity were the perpetual theological argument...

God’s names (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) change with his roles or “modes of being” (like a chameleon). When God is the Son, he is not the Father. There is no permanent distinction between the three “persons” of the Trinity, otherwise you have three gods. Key texts: Ex. 20:3: “You shall have no other gods before me” and John 10:30: “I and the Father are one.” These people took seriously the Gospels’ portrait of Christ, in which Jesus is portrayed very much as a human being. Ebionites: For these conservative
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