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4.1 Challenge - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Bishop Alexander of Alexandria
        
        "Before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58).
        
        "The Word was God" (John 1:1)
        
        "The Father and I are one" (John 10:30).
        
        Bishop Alexander did not accept Arianism (saw it as heresy), holding the belief that the Son, the Word of God, had existed from all eternity as the equal of the Father.
      - Constantine
        
        "restoration of general concord"
        
        "small and insignificant questions"
        
        "nor has any new heresy arisen"
        
        Overall stance: lack of understanding of subtleties, believed it was lack of unity in the Church, did not see Arianism as heresy.
    - - Council of Nicea established Nicene Creed (325).
      - Excommunication of Arius and his followers (318).
    - - "the Word is not always God".
      - "The Son was not always
      - "theological insults were hurled in the marketplace" (Jean Comby)
      - "The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are divided by nature".
      - "the Father is greater than I"