Board Thread:Bible Questions/@comment-31246436-20151213223016/@comment-1777104-20151214232234

As the article at "Got Questions" states, this argument goes back to a monk named Arius who taught that Jesus was the "firstborn of creature " in the literal sense. His arguments were strong and his faction would be voted down. The Council at Nicea was big here -- including the true "Saint Nicolaus"! The Nicene Creed is actually older than the much shorter "Apostle's Creed."

Anyway, the heresy keeps coming to the surface. The most current form of it is with the Jehovah's Witnesses. The best place to go to debunk this heresy is the Gospel of John, especially the first half of the first chapter. Jesus is the Word -- God Himself -- in the flesh. The end of John, starting about halfway through, the last weeks of Jesus' life are used to build his case. The declaration "I and my Father are one" is rightfully taken as a claim to be God.

As Jesus kept at it, He gave his opponents "ammunition" to charge him with blasphemy. It was this charge that caused the high priest to tear his garments. Though it might be argued that "Son of God" is not the same thing as "God," the preponderance of the evidence, with the same language being used for both the Father and the Son, supports the case for the Trinity.

I will work on the God article to include this evidence in that section.