Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Hippolytus "Christ is God above all"


Hippolytus 3 of 3 Elucidations

Hippolytus "and well he (John) has named Christ 'The Almighty'. (Rev 1:8)


Hippolytus 2 of 3 Against the Heresy of One Noetus

Hippolytus "I do not mean there are two Gods"

Tertullian "God and man united in his birth" 2

Tertullian Apology 3 of 3 (continuation)

Tertullian "God and man united in his birth" 1


Tertullian Apology 2 of 3 (continued on 3 of 3)

Tertullian "Proof of Plurality of Persons in the Trinity"

Tertullian Against Praxeas

Clement of Alexandria "He is God and He is Creator"

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor

Clement of Alexandria ",’ I understand nothing else than the Holy Trinity to be meant; ..Holy Spirit,...the Son...the Father

Clement of Alexandria The Stromata

Clement of Alexandria - Jesus is "Most manifest DEITY" & "made equal to the Lord of the Universe"


Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen

Clement of Alexandria-Jesus "is eternal and uncreated" "existed always, without beginning" "equality of substance one with the Father"

Clement of Alexandria Fragments from Cassiodorus

Irenaeus "There is ONE God, the Creator"

Irenaeus "Some say the world and its substance was made by certain angels"

Irenaeus "The Word was God"

Irenaeus "Since he was man and since he was God"

Justyn Martyr "I (Jesus) am The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Though dead THEY ARE STILL IN EXISTENCE"

Many times Justyn "called" Jesus an angel (messenger) and said he "appeared" as an angel, etc. But as you read and understand Martyr you will see he holds to ONLY 1 GOD. He thusly calls Christ God.

Justyn Martyr "Christ is called both God and LORD OF HOSTS"

Justyn Martyr - Genesis 19:24 "There were two in number" "Numerically distinct"

Justyn Martyr "Moreover, in the diapsalm of the forty-sixth (47th) Psalm, reference is thus made to Christ: 'God (Jehovah) went up with a shout...

Note how Justyn says that Psalm 46 (which you will actually find as Psalm 47 specifically v.5)
is a reference referring to Christ. The Watchtower teaches it is of "Jehovah".

Testimony of the Greek Scriptures. p.6 right column near top of page

Original source: E. Washburn Hopkins Origin and Evolution of Religion. p.336

Testimony of the Greek Scriptures. p.6 right column top of page

Original source: Bernhard Lohse, A Short History of Christian Doctrine p. 54-55 3 of 3

Testimony of the Greek Scriptures. p.6 right column top of page

Bernhard Lohse A Short History of Christian Doctrine p. 8-9 1 of 3

Testimony of the Greek Scriptures. p.6 right column top of page

Original source: Bernhard Lohse- A Short History of Christian Doctrine p. 38-39 2 of 3

Testimony of the Greek Scriptures. p.6 left column bottom

Original source: The New Encyclopedia Britannica, under Trinity

Testimony of the Hebrew Scriptures. p.6 left column

Original source: The New Catholic Encyclopedia p. 306 under Trinity, Holy (In The Bible)

Beyond The Grasp of Human Reason. p.4


Original source: The Encyclopedia Americana under Trinity, The

"Trinity" in the Bible? p.5 right column


Original source: The Illustrated Bible Dictionary p. 1597