In the fourth century an African by the name of Athanasius was in the minority when he held to the eternal deity of Jesus Christ. He stood alone, claiming that the Word that became flesh was coeternal, cosubstantial and coexistent with the Father. “The world is against you,” his critics shouted at him. “If the world is against Athanasius, Athanasius is against the world,” he retorted. The anointing is the reason Martin Luther could turn the world upside down in the sixteenth century. He stood alone in his claims that we are justified (declared righteous) before God by faith alone. The Western
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