Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ Modern Arians are distinguished by the titles High and Low ; the former, like the Semi-Arians, raising the character of Christ as nearly as possible to the divinity; and the latter sinking it very nearly to mere humanity. The term Arian is now indiscriminately applied to those who consider Jesus simply subordinate to the Father. Some of them believe Christ to have been the Creator of the world ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ The modern Arians, to prove the subordination and inferiority of Christ to God the Father, argue thus: There are various passages of scripture where the Father is styled the one, or only God. Why callest thou me good ? There is none good but one, that is God. (Matt. xix. 17.) The Father is styled God with peculiarly high titles and attributes. (See Matt, xxiii. 9.—Mark v. 7. &c.) It is said in Ephesians iv. 6. There is one God and Father of all, who h above all. Our Lord Jesus Christ expressly speaks of another God distinct from himself. ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ The opinion of the Arians concerning Christ, differs from the Gnostics chiefly in two respects,— (1.) The Gnostics supposed the pre-existent spirit which was in Jesus to have been an emanation from the supreme Being', according to the principles of the philosophy of that age, which made creation out of nothing, to be an impossibility. But the Arians supposed the pre-existent spirit to have been properly created, and to have animated the body of Christ instead of the human soul.— (2.) The Gnostics supposed that the pre-existent spirit was not the maker of the world ”
