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Christianity strengthened among the Greek speaking people who were philosophically and intellectually minded people. Such a philosophical and intellectual mind struggled to understand the revelation of Trinity. Further complexity added by the polytheistic belief of the Greek speaking world. It means several Greek speaking Christians struggled to understand the exclusive claims of the one God of Christianity with three personalities. They asked the question like: How one who created can become a man? How Jesus could be a man and same time God? What is the relationship between God and Jesus? 1. Trinitarian Controversies 1.1 Monarchianism There are two kinds of Monarchianism. 1.1.1.Dynamic Monarchianism or Adoptionism There were two groups of dynamic Monarchianists with various interpretations. (a)The first group led by Theodotus. He proposed (in CE 180) that Jesus was a mere man born of virgin Mary according to the will of God and that he was so holy  so that Holy Sp