In this post I will cite some of the very early witnesses for the Church’s belief in the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, that God created all things from nothing. All emphasis is mine.
The Shepherd of Hermas (Book II)
Commandment 1
On Faith in God.
First of all, believe that there is one God who created and finished all things, and made all things out of nothing. He alone is able to contain…
According to the book of Mormon, David’s and Solomon’s multiple wives and concubines were an abomination to God, something which he despised:
23 But the word of God burdens me because of your grosser crimes. For behold, thus saith the Lord: This people begin to wax in iniquity; they understand not the scriptures, for they seek to excuse themselves in committing whoredoms, because of the things…
In this short post I will be citing excerpts from two early 2nd century writers on Christ’s Deity, the first will be from a Christian and the second from a pagan satirist. All emphasis will be mine.
Aristides the Philosopher
I continue from where I left off from Book II of Origen’s commentary on John: Origen: Trinity, Creatio Ex Nihilo & the Church as Spiritual Israel.
So many meanings occur to us at once of the word arche. We have now to ask…
In this post I will be quoting from the Commentary on John (Origen).
The citations that I will be providing will help the readers see that Origen affirms,
The Monarchy (monarchia) of the Father, that he is the unbegotten Source of Divinity.
Christ is the uncreated Wisdom of God, being the timelessly begotten Son of the Father.
Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the…
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In this post I will be looking at two OT texts, which the early Christians saw as foreshadowing Christ’s crucifixion. These early writers employed these particular verses as prophesying or prefiguring Christ’s death on a cross.
First Prophecy
I begin with the following reference from the Jeremiah:
“and I am as a lamb or a bullock brought to the slaughter; and I know not that they fabricate…
In this post I will cite the works of three intellectual and spiritual giants of the Faith to show how they interpreted Genesis 1:26-27, particularly verse, where God uses plural pronouns when speaking of making man in the image and likeness of God. The readers will see that these magnificent men of the Church took the plural as proof that the Trinity created mankind in their image and likeness.…
In this post I will be quoting from St. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word. This great Trinitarian defender and Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt appealed to Messianic prophecies to prove that Jesus is the Christ and the Lord God whom the prophets foretold would come in the flesh and die for the sins of the world. The texts which Athanasius quoted include: Genesis 49:10; Numbers 24:5-17; Psalm…
The quotations from St. Augustine are taken from On the Trinity, Book 1. Augustine will cite texts such as 1 John 5:20, where Jesus is called the true God and eternal life, to prove that Christ is one divine Person who operates in/by/through two natures since he is the God-Man. He will explain that Jesus, by virtue of becoming Man, not only became lesser than the Father and the Spirit, but also…
The quotations from St. Augustine are taken from On the Trinity, Book 1. The beloved saint will show that the words of our Lord Jesus in Mark 13:32 do not imply that the Son was ignorant of the Day or Hour, but that he chose to veil that knowledge for the express purpose of not making it known to his disciples. Augustine then quotes the Apostle Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 2:2 to explain that…
In this post I will quote from a few fathers and saints of the Church whom all believed that the reason the Son honored the Father as his God is because of the Incarnation, as a result of the eternal Word becoming flesh and taking on a human nature. All emphasis will be mine.
Hippolytus
I will be quoting from the Epistle of Barnabas, which is a letter attributed to Paul’s companion that was composed somewhere between the middle and latter part of the first century AD. It contains a lot of allegorical interpretations of the Old Testament commandments and events, which the author connects to Christ, his commandments, and the Church. All emphasis will be mine.
Genesis 1:26 & Jesus…
In this post I will be quoting from the works of Justin Martyr and Tertullian in respect to Old Testament prophecies and typology pointing to Christ. All emphasis will be mine.
One interesting typology that both of them employ is the case of Joshua, whom they not only take to be a picture of Jesus but as also foreshadowing Christ’s actual name. Both Justin and Tertullian argue that Joshua is the…
The excerpts cited here are taken from St. Justin Martyr’s First Apology.
Justin appeals to Old Testament prophecies and to written records by Pilate, which were still in existence, to convince the Roman authorities of the divine origin and historicity of the Christian faith. Justin’s knowledge of Messianic prophecies is truly remarkable since he cites a plethora of OT texts to prove that Jesus…
The quotations which I will cite here are taken from Novatian's Treatise Concerning the Trinity. All emphasis will be mine.
Novatian sets forth biblical texts to refute the modalist lie that Jesus is the Father. He instead proves that the Father, Son and Spirit are personally distinct and yet one and the same Divinity. Novatian also demonstrates that the Son is fully God and fully human, being…
Here’s the link to the first part: Cyprian, Messianic Prophecies & Christ’s Hypostatic Union.
I cite from the rest of St. Cyprian’s treatise where he quotes verse after verse from both testaments to prove that the prophets announced our Lord’s Deity, Humanity, vicarious death, resurrection, physical, heavenly ascension, physical, bodily return to the earth to judge all flesh, and his spiritual…
In this post I will be quoting from St. Cyprian’s Treatises, specifically Treatise XII (Book 2). Cyprian quotes extensively from both the Old and New Testaments to prove that Jesus is the God-Man, the divine Son of God, whom the prophets announced would come to be killed for sins, raised from the dead, and who would return to Judge the living and the dead. This beloved saint’s knowledge of the…
The usual understanding of the Jewish people is that the Jews are God's "chosen people." What does that mean?
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St. Irenaeus mentions what the Apostle John exclaimed when he ran into the gnostic heretic Cerinthus. He also recalls what his Bishop St. Polycarp, the beloved and holy martyr and disciple of the holy Apostles, said to the heretic Marcion when he saw him in person. All emphasis will be mine.
Chapter 3 A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, in the various churches, a perpetual…
For many of the years I knew him, Charlie Kirk insisted with me that Genesis 1-11 provides the foundation for mankind and civilization.
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A l’occasion des 50 ans de Saint-Merry, Christine est partie de l'idée du "Hors-les-Murs" et notamment du chapitre de Jean-Claude Thomas dans le livre L'aventure hors les murs, pour nous proposer ce nouveau chant.
(RNS) — Christian Scripture must be read alongside Israel’s long experience of exile, Jesus’ execution by the state and the New Testament’s recurring suspicion of imperial power.
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