The Arian Controversy
Alexander, Bishop at Alexandria, maintained the Orthodox position of the church against the Arians. That the Son is de facto co-eternal with the Father. As all scientific theories must show themselves falsifiable to qualify as theories, so too does Athanasius provide a test of falsifiability with his claim that, “…our adversaries must first prove that the Son is not the Son, but a creature made of nothing. Then, when they have done this, they may clamour as they like of His not being before He began to exist. In a letter composed by Arius to Eusebius he states, “To the most desired Master, the faithful man of God, the Orthodox Eusebius, Arius, who is unjustly persecuted by Father Alexander, on account of the truth which conquereth all things, which truth thou also shieldeth…For the Bishop wastes and persecutes us exceedingly, and sets in motion every evil against us; so that he has driven us out of the city as godless men, because we do not agree with his assertion made in the p