WOF 257: Arianism, Then and Now

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A new survey from Ligonier Ministries titled “The State of Theology” revealed lots of interesting things. But one finding that stood out, and generated lots of headlines, was that most Christians believe about Jesus. Nearly 70% of Catholics believe “Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God,” while 57% of Catholics believe “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God.” Bishop Barron and Brandon discuss this survey and the ancient heresy these statements reflect.

A listener asks if confirmation is supposed to make us fiery defenders of the faith, then why do some Protestants seem to have more fire for the faith, even without this sacrament?

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0:00.0	every single Sunday. At Mass, we fight areas again because we recite the nice scene creed,
0:11.2	right? That comes up out of the council of Nicea and explicitly condemns the Aryan position
0:19.6	and states the Orthodox position. We think it's so important that every single week at our
0:26.4	liturgy, we Catholics get up and say, areas was wrong. Areas was wrong. Every Sunday,
0:33.2	lest we forget. Now, the problem is, most people, even at Catholic Mass, have no real idea of
0:40.5	what we're doing when we recite that creed.
0:50.7	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the host and the content
0:55.1	director. We've got some really good stuff for you today. We're going to look at the results of
0:58.9	a new survey on the state of theology. We're going to explore an ancient heresy known as
1:04.4	Aryanism. And we're going to show why Aryanism remains appealing today, but should never
1:09.5	the less be rejected. But before that, I want to greet Bishop Baron, the auxiliary bishop of
1:15.2	the Archdiocese Los Angeles, who is joining us from Santa Barbara. Bishop Baron, good to see you.
1:19.9	Hey, Brandon, good to see you. It's mercifully a little cooler today in Santa Barbara. So our studio
1:24.8	is not quite as hot as it was before. What does cool mean for Santa Barbara? It's like in the mid-60s,
1:29.0	maybe this morning, but last couple of times we filmed, it's been super hot here. And as I've said,
1:33.5	there's nowhere conditioning in Santa Barbara. So when it gets hot, which is relatively rare,
1:38.8	things get really warm inside. You know, we were joking before we started recording here about
1:44.0	some of the comments on a recent video you just posted. You were commenting on Pope Francis' new
1:48.5	encyclical and you were just sitting in your living room under these lights that you're actually
1:53.1	not a big fan of because they're kind of, I don't know, gaudy. They kind of make everything look
1:57.6	weird in the room. Anyway, the comments in the video people said, Bishop, why do you keep dying your
2:03.7	hair? Your hair looks blonde. And we're joking because in other videos with other different lighting,
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