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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN II MONARCHIANISM The first attempt to understand the concept of <strong>Trinity</strong> was proposed by Sabellius around 217-220 AD. Hence it is known as Sabellianism. It is known also in various names in various forms in various areas of the then world. Monarchianism had two primary forms, Dynamic Monarchianism, Modalistic Monarchianism. Modelistic Monarchianis can be further understood in two forms: Modalism and Partipassianism. Adoptionism Adoptivi Neo-Adoptionism Psilanthropism Modalism 25
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN A: Dynamic Monarchianism: Adoptionism Dynamic Monarchianism is the view that Jesus was not in His nature God. God existed in Jesus, just as God exists in all of us, but that God existed in Jesus in a particularly powerful way. Jesus was God because God inhabited Him. It thus denied that Jesus was God but God was in Jesus in a fuller way than other saints and prophets. Just as Adam was called the Son of God by Luke (3:38), the second Adam -Jesus - was also the Son of God in the same manner. Both Adam and Jesus were perfect humans. Theodotus of Byzantium Jesus was adopted as son and annointed with the Spirit at his baptism Dynamic Monarchianism was first proposed by held by Theodotus of Byzantium ( Θεoδoτoς; also known as Theodotus the Tanner, Theodotus the Shoemaker, and Theodotus the Fuller; flourished late 2nd century) who claimed that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit as a non-divine man, miraculously conceived, a normal human being and later "adopted" by God upon baptism when he became the Christ - the anointed one. As the anointed one he constituted the Son of God simply by the infinitely high degree- the Christ- in which he had been filled with divine wisdom and power. He was not himself made to sit at the right hand of God until after his resurrection. According to Hippolytus of Rome (Philosophumena, VII, xxiii) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the "Christ" came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove. (Luke 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,) 26
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