Arians were early Protestants. They followed an early Profiteer of Protestantism named Arius. He attacked Catholic Teaching about The Holy Trinity. Arius and the Arians did not believe The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit were Three Separate But Equal Persons in One Holy Trinity.
Arius, and many early Protestants, were once Catholic priests. Eusebius claimed to be an “enlightened” Catholic priest! He followed Arius. He convinced The Emperor Constantine that Catholic Teaching about The Trinity was wrong. Arians believe The Father is more important than The Son.
Before he died, Constantine had himself Baptized by Eusebius.
Was The Baptism of Constantine valid? That is a hard question!
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A valid Baptism includes these Words: “I Baptize you In The Name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit.”
Two adults were involved in Constantine’s Baptism. They willfully refused to believe that The Son is Equal of The Father and The Holy Spirit. Therefore, Constantine was not “Baptized in The Name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit.”
Was The Baptism of Constantine valid?
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As time went on, the Arians left The Catholic Church. They led many Tribes of Goths, Lombards, and others to reject Catholic Teachings and become Arians. God’s Catholic priests led most of them back to The Catholic Church in the next 250 years. By 587, King Reccared of the Spanish Visigoths returned to The Church!
The Arian heresy did not go away! In every age, Profiteers of Protestantism invent new marketing plans. Many of these lower-level Protestants have fallen as far from The Holy Trinity as Arius.
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Why did so many people continue to avoid The Equality of The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit? God wanted to provide ongoing truth of Psalm 26: 11. 2 Peter 2:22 makes that Psalm clear!
“For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
We see that The Roman Catholic Church did not canonize Eusebius. He is not “St. Eusebius”. It is easy to see why!
Was The Baptism of Constantine valid?
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