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Bible Question:
Steve wrote: "Were you also looking for extra-biblical Ante-Nicene attestation?" ParsonPat replies: Surely. I'm doing that as I go along from what's on the WWW. I've reveiwed a number of available Gnostic texts. Whenever I do catch a glimpse of what I'm investigating, it's usually expressed in such a manner that I can neither verify nor discredit it. I can sometimes link THEOS and/or PATHR to a Gnostic term like "Prime Source" or "unutterable utterance" in the sense of God's identify or name, but the usage or definition is generally vague or speculative. Do you have some other extra-biblical references in mind? |
Bible Answer: Hello PastorPat, I would recommend reading the Ante-Nicene Fathers at www.ccel.org. Here is one excerpt from Ignatius' epistle to the Philippians: Chapter II.—Unity of the three divine persons. There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true [God]. For "the Lord thy God," saith [the Scripture], "is one Lord." And again, "Hath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father?" And there is also one Son, God the Word. For "the only-begotten Son," saith [the Scripture], "who is in the bosom of the Father." And again, "One Lord Jesus Christ." And in another place, "What is His name, or what His Son’s name, that we may know?" And there is also one Paraclete. For "there is also," saith [the Scripture], "one Spirit," since "we have been called in one hope of our calling." And again, "We have drunk of one Spirit," with what follows. And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers] "worketh one and the self-same Spirit." There are not then either three Fathers, or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, commanded them to "baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," not unto one [person] having three names, nor into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of equal honour. Steve |