[Zero Sum]

Oddly enough, Protestants frequently hold up Arians and other Arian-influenced heretics as what they refer to as the true (but submerged) Church that limped along in the shadows and didn’t emerge for 1400 years until the advent of Luther.

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So far in this thread I've read ... we don't believe in the Trinity (since we claim descent from Arians & it seems we have Luther to thank for that)

I'm no scholar on Luther, but I've never read anything that would suggest he had Arian sympathies. That would be news to me!

[GoLightly]

I'm no scholar on Luther, but I've never read anything that would suggest he had Arian sympathies. That would be news to me!

The Lutheran Church confesses the Nicaean, Apostles & Athanasian Creeds, so that would be a big NO on Arian sympathies.