[olde north church]

[I to am using the Catholic Encyclopaedia as source}
I find Arianism, this particular "chapter" quite interesting. I would like to request a continuence while I gather my thoughts on the matter. I do personally believe one of the major difficulties as the church was being organized was the translations between Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Egyptian and Farsi.
The drift of all he advanced was this: to deny that in any true sense God could have a Son; as Mohammed tersely said afterwards, "God neither begets, nor is He begotten" (Koran, 112).Such is the genuine doctrine of Arius.
I do believe there is some proverb about a finding a truffle once in a while. To extrapolate a linkage between Arianism and Islam based upon a verse would be akin to some future historian finding congruence between revolutionaries in 2091 and French revolutionaries based upon the motto of "Liberte, Egalitie, Fraternite". It's a false comparison. More will follow.
With respect,
onc

[Kolokotronis]

Bear in mind while reading and thinking on this apparent connection between Mohammedanism and Arianism that Mohammed was influenced by all kinds of people, Jews and Christians primarily and the Christians were almost all Arians or Nestorians.

[Cronos]

I think we're talking at cross-purposes here. I state that Islam is a Christian heresy in the same way that gnosticism, Manichaenism etc. are considered Christian heresies. They all took some aspects of Christianity and merged it with other thoughts etc. to form cults.