If there was a time—even before time—when Jesus, the Son, had no existence, then there was also a time when the Father did not exist as the Father. God cannot be, in truth, the Father without the Son, because without the Son there is no father-son relationship in the life of God. Arianism thus distorts the Father of Jesus Christ into an idol by implying that the Father is a different God than the God we meet in Scripture, the God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
