In his
series of radio broadcasts in 1929 on the apostasy, B.H. Roberts wrote the
following where he explicitly rejected Arius and his Christology:
Arius was defeated in the council and the
views of Athanasius as expressed in the Nicene creed were triumphant. Let us be understood, of course, that I am not contending that the council
of Nicea in rejecting the doctrine of Arius was rejecting the true Christian
doctrine of Deity; my point is that both sides to the controversy were in
error, and that the whole of Christendom had been led away from the New Testament revelation of God,
fulfilling the prophecy that men would “deny the Lord that brought them” (II Peter ii:1); so what I have to point out in respect to Arius arises from no sympathy with his doctrine of Deity. (B.H.
Roberts, The "Falling Away" or
The World's Loss of the Christian Religion and the Church [Salt Lake City:
Deseret Book Company, 1931], 79-80)
This is
important as it shows that Roberts, one of the most informed Latter-day Saints
on the topic of theology of his time, rejected Arian Christology, notwithstanding the
repeated claims of some errant critics who claim that “Mormon” Christology is “Arian.”
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