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What did Arius claim that caused a dispute between him and the Bishop of Alexandria?

The Son of God is an imaginary being.
The Son of God is a created being.
The Son of God is a divine being.
The Son of God is an eternal being.
The Son of God is a human being.

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The Son of God is a created being.

Arius taught that the Son was begotten by the Father and therefore had a beginning (“there was a time when he was not”), which Alexander of Alexandria rejected as denying the Son’s true divinity and led to the Arian controversy and the Council of Nicaea.