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 =History in the Christian church=
-Arian teachings were first attributed to Arius (c. AD 250–336), a teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. The teachings are opposed to mainstream Christian teachings on the nature of the Godhead and on the nature of Christ. The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by God the Father. This belief is based on an interpretation of John 14:28:
+Arius (256–336 A.D.) was a presbyter in the Baucalis region of Alexandria, Egypt.  He began a controversy around 318 over the nature of Christ’s relation to the Father.<ref>Dennis E. Groh, “Arius, Arianism,” ed. David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 384.</ref>
+The view advanced by Arius was as follows:
+#God was not always Father, but only after He begat (i.e. created) the Son.
+#Wisdom and the Word (Logos) dwell within this God, but they are powers, not persons.
+#To create the universe, God brought into being an independent substance as the instrument by which all things were created. This Being is termed, in Scripture, Wisdom, Son, Image, Word, etc.
+#As regards His substance, the Son is a separate being from the Father, different from Him in substance and nature. Like all rational creatures, the Son is endowed with free will, and consequently capable of change.
+#The Son is not truly God, but is only the so-called Word and Wisdom. He has no absolute, but only a relative, knowledge of the Father.
+#The Son is not, however, a creature like other creatures. He is the perfect creature, and has become God, so that we may term Him ‘the only-begotten God,’ etc.
+#Christ took a real body, but it had the Logos taking the place of the soul. From the Gospel record, we see that this Logos is not an absolutely perfect being, but is capable of suffering.
+#Amongst other created beings, the Holy Ghost is to be placed beside the Son as a second, independent substance. According to Arius, apparently, the Spirit is the creation of the Son.
+Such, then, was Arianism—a theory of the mutual relations of the Persons in the Trinity based nominally on the words of Scripture, but arrived at really by the methods of the heathen philosophers.<ref>F. J. Foakes-Jackson, “Arianism,” ed. James Hastings, John A. Selbie, and Louis H. Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh; New York: T. & T. Clark; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908–1926), 777.</ref>
+ This belief is based on an interpretation of John 14:28:
 :''You heard me say, 'I am going away, and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."
-All mainstream branches of Christianity consider Arianism to be heterodox and heretical.  The Council of Nicaea in AD 325 deemed it to be a heresy.  The Roman Emperors Constantius II (337–361) and Valens (364–378) were Arians or Semi-Arians.
+[[The Council of Nicaea]] in AD 325 was involved in resolving the dispute over Arianism.
 =The teachings of Lee Vayle=