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==Theology==
==Theology==
Responding to a very Platonistic presentation of Jesus Christ (in which our and his real entities are somewhere else like a puppet master) by the sect of the Gnostics, Arius presented a very human Jesus Christ: a [[Jesus Christ]] that was human "except as the scriptures declare". This means that Jesus Christ had no existence prior to his conception; a Jesus Christ that was human as we are except in ways that were specifically declared by the Scriptures, such as: "No man taketh [my life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."<ref>https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/jhn/10/18/s_1007018</ref>
Responding to a very Platonistic presentation of Jesus Christ (in which our and his real entities are somewhere else like a puppet master) by the sect of the [[Gnosticism|Gnostics]], Arius presented a very human Jesus Christ: a [[Jesus Christ]] that was human "except as the scriptures declare". This means that Jesus Christ had no existence prior to his conception; a Jesus Christ that was human as we are except in ways that were specifically declared by the Scriptures, such as: "No man taketh [my life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."<ref>https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/jhn/10/18/s_1007018</ref>
This belief of '''Arianism''' while rejected by the councils, morphed into a system known as '''Semi-Arianism'''. While in classic Arianism, Christ had no existence prior to his conception on Earth, in Semi-Arianism Christ was "the only begotten of the Father" in the eternities past and was then incarnated amongst humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.
This belief of '''Arianism''' while rejected by the councils, morphed into a system known as '''Semi-Arianism'''. While in classic Arianism, Christ had no existence prior to his conception on Earth, in Semi-Arianism Christ was "the only begotten of the Father" in the eternities past and was then incarnated amongst humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.
==Historical Context==
==Historical Context==