Athanasius: The Truth About the Trinity

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Feb 7, 2021 · 4m

In the 300s, a controversy erupted throughout the church over the doctrine of the Trinity. The Arian sect claimed Jesus was a lesser deitysince He was begotten of God the Father, there must have been a time when He was not in existence. About that time, a young man named Athanasius entered service to Alexander, the bishop of Alexandria. Alexander was a righteous man who combatted Arianism all the way to the First Council of Nicaea, a gathering of leading bishops ordered by the Roman emperor Constantine to restore unity to the church. There, the council declared Arianism heresy. But Arianism…