Arianism: The Chtistian Doctrine confirmed by Islam
Today’s Question: Was Arius of Alexandria a heretic or a Mytre ?Arianism is a form of Original Christian faith, which was prevailing in large areas of the Christian world in the first 3 centuries after Christ ministry. Arians rejected the deity of Jesus pbuh, and maintained that he was a creation and a subordinate of God Almighty. They supported their doctrinal position by citing many of the books that later came to constitute the Canon of the New Testament.
The most famous Arian, though, by no means the founder of the faith, was Arius of Alexandria, who died in suspicious circumstances at the palace of the Byzantine emperor. Many considered him a mytre, a view which is also held by some contemporary scholars.
The view of Christ advocated by Arians is compatible with the Muslim faith, which considers Jesus, pbuh, as the Last prophet of Israel, and one of the five Major prophets sent by God to Mankind, The others being: Noah, Abraham, Moses and Muhammad, peace be upon all of them:
Quran: 33:7-8: And when We exacted a covenant from the prophets, and from thee (O Muhammad) and from Noah and Abraham and Moses and Jesus son of Mary. We took from them a solemn covenant; (7) That He may ask the loyal of their loyalty. And He hath prepared a painful doom for the unfaithful (8)
الأحزاب 7-8
*7*وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ مِيثَاقَهُمْ وَمِنكَ وَمِن نُّوحٍ وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَى وَعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ وَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُم مِّيثَاقًا غَلِيظًا
لِيَسْأَلَ الصَّادِقِينَ عَن صِدْقِهِمْ وَأَعَدَّ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا *8
You may indeed claim that Arianism was larger body, but there is little to support this, additionally there is only one point of agreement between Islam and Arianism, that has to do with the deity of Jesus. Beyond that there is no agreement. Additionally, the deity of Jesus aside, the teachings of Jesus and of Islam do not agree.
hkevinderr
October 11, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Arianism is not Christian doctrine! It was “kicked out” of the faith because it rejected the key point of our belief: That Jesus was the Son of God, and if you will, “of God,” (or consubstantial, as theologians call it). The word consubstantial comes from the Greek homoousios, which means of the same being. Thus, if you reject that Christ is consubstantial with the Father, than you also reject God, of which he is incontrovertibly and eternally a part. Any person claiming that Christ is not God does not worship the God of Christianity (Who is the real and only True God). Arius was an apostate or a heretic, call him what you will; so were many others after him. The Bible warned us repeatedly about false doctrines. Christ-deniers (those who deny Christ’s divinity have proliferated on this planet ever since then, which was also predicted by the Bible.)
Only by coming to Christ, the real, biblical Christ, can someone receive salvation from God.
deusleveult
October 26, 2007 at 1:34 am
To whom it may concern,
I have never accepted Jesus as a son of G-d, a divine figure,who was born out of a virgin woman Mary.Jesus was an important historical person who never started a new movement at all.And he lived his life as a Jew and died as a Jew in Israel.
Joseph was Jesus’ father,who,also,sired other children,one of them was Jacob or James,who succeeded Jesus,after he was murdered by the Romans,as a leader of the Messianic movement.
In the ancient world I would be classed as an Ebionite,or an Arian,a movement started by a so-called heretic priest Arius by majority of the religious Councillors of Nicaea in 325AD,who,unanomously,accepted Jesus as a Son of G-d and the Trinity,The Nicene creed.
I would be interested to hear your response,yours truly David Rosenboom.
David Rosenboom
January 12, 2009 at 9:19 am
“For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached,or a different
Gospel from the one you accepted,you put up with it
easily enough.”2Corinthians11;4.(on false apostles)
Samuel Murdock
January 19, 2009 at 11:18 am
In the Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, the word “Son” is not actually used but Jesus is called “Eved” which means Servant or Slave.
And the word used in The Holy Qur’aan for Jesus is Abdullah which exactly means Servant of God.
19:29 Thereupon she pointed to him. They exclaimed: “How can we talk to one who [as yet] is a little boy in the cradle?”
19:30 [But] he said:”Behold, I am a servant of God. He has vouchsafed unto me revelation and made me a prophet,
19:31 and made me blessed wherever I may be; and He has enjoined upon me prayer and charity as long as I live,
19:32 and [has endowed me with] piety towards my mother; and He has not made me haughty or bereft of grace.
19:33 “Hence, peace was upon me on the day when I was born, and [will be upon me] on the day of my death(after his second coming), and on the day when I shall be raised to life [again]!”
19:34 SUCH WAS, in the words of truth, Jesus the son of Mary, about whose nature they so deeply disagree. [25]
19:35 It is not conceivable that God should have taken unto Himself a son: limitless is He in His glory! [26] When He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it “Be” -and it is!
19:36 And [thus it was that Jesus always said]: “Verily, God is my Sustainer as well as your Sustainer; so worship [none but] Him: this (alone] is a straight way.”
19:37 And yet, the sects [that follow the Bible] are at variance among themselves [about the nature of Jesus Woe, then, unto all who deny the truth when that awesome Day will appear!
19:38 How well will they hear and see [the truth] on the Day when they come before Us! Today, however, these evildoers are obviously lost in error:
19:39 hence, warn them of [the coming of] the Day of Regrets, when everything will have been decided-for as yet they are heedless, and they do not believe [in it].
112:1 Say: He is God, the One and Only;
112:2 God, the Eternal, Absolute;
112:3 He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;
112:4 And there is none like unto Him.
Elijah
February 19, 2009 at 11:17 am