nd before ages, full (of grace and truth), divine, unique, unchangeable" (Arius, 1954, p. 330). Graceful, special, and glorious though he was, and even though he was "begotten timelessly by the Father and created before ages and established" (Arius, 1954b, p. 333), Jesus the Son was nevertheless also historical rather than eternal, the Father's creature or artifact, i.e., created or begotten, hence not the God of eternal being. In the attempt to as it were confirm the ultimate deity of God but to avoid the idea that Christianity is polyt
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