Quotable Quotes
Moses speaking for GOD
ca.1300 or 1500 B.C. |
Is He not your Father?....... there is no God besides ME. |
Jesus of Nazareth
ca. 32 A.D. |
Father... that they many know You, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ whom You sent. |
The Sanhedrin
ca. 32 A.D. |
We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God. |
Paul
ca. 50 A.D. |
There is no God but one. For although there those called gods in heaven or on earth - as indeed there are many gods and many lords- yet for us there is one God: the Father. |
Paul
ca. 60 A.D. |
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ. |
Clement of Rome
ca. 80 A.D. |
Have we not one God and one Christ? |
II Clement
ca. 140 A.D. |
The Only God, invisible, Father of truth, who sent forth to us the Saviour and Author of immortality. |
Justin Martyr
ca. 150 A.D. |
There is, and that there is said to be, another God and Lord subject to the Maker of all things who is also called an Angel.
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Irenaeus
ca. 180 A.D. |
The Church, though scattered throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth , and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God. |
Irenaeus
ca. 180 A.D. |
There is One God Alone, the Creator, He who is above every principality, and power, and dominion, and virtue: He is the Father, He is God, He the Founder, He the Maker, He the Creator, who made those things by Himself, that is, through His Word and His Wisdom, heaven and earth, and the seas, and all things that are in them. He is just, He is good. He it is who formed man, who planted paradise, who made the world, who gave rise to the flood, who saved Noah. He is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of the living. He it is whom the law proclaims, whom the prophets preach, whom Christ reveals, whom the apostles make known to us, and in whom the Church believes. He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
Tertullian
ca. 210 A.D. |
There was, however, a time when neither sin existed with Him, nor the Son. |
Tertullian
ca. 210 A.D. |
For the Father is the entire substance, but the Son is a derivation and portion of the whole, as he himself confesses, "My Father is greater than I." In the Psalm his inferiority is described as being "a little lower than the angels." Thus the Father is distinct from the Son, being greater than the Son, inasmuch as He who begets is one, and he who is begotten is another. |
Origen
ca. 230 A.D. |
[JOHN 1:1]: As God who is over all is theos with the article ["the"] not without it, so also "the" logos is the source of that logos (reason} which dwells in every reasonable creature; the logos which is in each creature is not, like the former called par excellence "the" logos. Now there are many who are sincerely concerned about religion, and who fall here into great perplexity. They are afraid that they may be proclaiming two gods, and their fear drives them into doctrines which are false and wicked. Either they deny that the Son has a distinct nature of His own besides that of the Father, and make Him whom they call the Son to be theos all but the name, or they deny the divinity of the Son, giving Him a separate existence of His own, and making His sphere of essence fall outside that of the Father, so that they are separable from each other. To such persons we have to say that God on the one hand is autotheos (God of Himself); and so the Saviour says in His prayer to the Father, "That they may know You, the only true God;" but all that beyond the autotheos (God) is made theos by participation in His divinity, and is not to be called simply "the" theos but rather [just] theos. |
Novatian
ca. 250 A.D. |
Thus the mediator of God and men, Christ Jesus, having the power of every creature subjected to him by his own Father, inasmuch as he is God; with every creature subdued to him, found at one with his Father God, has, by abiding in that condition that he moreover "was heard," briefly proved God his Father to be one and only and true God. |
Lactantius
ca. 305 A.D. |
For He cannot be produced from any one, who Himself produced all things. I have, as I think, sufficiently taught by arguments, and confirmed by witnesses, that which is sufficiently plain by itself, that there is one only King of the universe, one Father, one God. |
Nicene Creed
325 A.D.
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We believe in one God, the Father Almighty. |
Athanasius
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God became man so that men might become gods. |
Augustine
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[John 17:3]: The proper order of the words is, "That they may know Thee and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent, as the only true God." Consequently, therefore, the Holy Spirit is also understood, because He is the Spirit of the Father and Son, as the substantial and consubstantial love of both. For the Father and Son are not two Gods, nor are the Father and Son and Holy Spirit three Gods; but the Trinity itself is the one only true God. |
Isaac Newton
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"If the ancient churches in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts [1 Timothy 3:16 and 1 John 5:7], I understand not, why we should be so fond of them now the debates are over." |
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