Arius (AD ca. 250 or 256 - 336) was a Berber Christian priest from Alexandria, Egypt in the early fourth century whose teachings, now called Arianism, were deemed heretical by the Church. In about the year 318, he was involved in a dispute with his bishop, Alexander of Alexandria, maintaining against him that Jesus, "the Son of God," wasn't consubstantial or coeternal with God the Father, but that there was once a time, before he was begotten, that he (Jesus) didn't exist. Arius, with a followi… (More on Arius)