Quotes About Divinity

Within three hundred years Jesus went from being a Jewish apocalyptic prophet to being God himself, a member of the Trinity. Early Christianity is nothing if not remarkable. HEAVEN

How did Jesus understand and describe himself? Did he talk about himself as a divine being? I will argue that he did not.

Jesus had been exalted to heaven and made to sit at the right hand of God as his unique Son.

belief in only one God, the creator of the world, who created everything out of nothing; belief in his Son, Jesus Christ, predicted by the prophets and born of the Virgin Mary; belief in his miraculous life, death, resurrection, and ascension; and belief in the Holy Spirit, who is present on earth until the end, when there will be a final judgment in which the righteous will be rewarded and the unrighteous condemned to eternal torment

Three beings make up a "Divine Triad." But they are so harmonious that they can be seen as a "unity," and this unity is itself the "God of the universe.

In Arius's view, everything except for God himself had a beginning. Only God is "without beginning.

Thus the Son who was not, but existed at the paternal will, Is only begotten God, and he is distinct from everything else.

The Father alone has existed forever. The Son was begotten by God before the world was created. But this means that he "is neither eternal nor coeternal . . . with the Father." God is above, beyond, and greater than all things, including Christ.

study, Alan Segal, a scholar of ancient Judaism, argues that early rabbis were particularly concerned about a notion, which was evidently widespread in parts of Judaism, that along with God in heaven there was a second power on the divine throne. Following these Jewish sources, Segal refers to these two—God and the other—as the "two powers in heaven."14 The Son of Man figure whom

how Jesus came to be considered God. The short answer is that it all had to do with his followers' belief that he had been raised from the dead.

humans sometimes could be elevated to the ranks of those gods.

in the Roman world it was widely thought that gods could take on human guise, such that some of the people one might meet on occasion may well indeed be divine

Within Judaism we find divine beings who temporarily become human, semidivine beings who are born of the union of a divine being and a mortal, and humans who are, or who become, divine.

Back, then, to my original question: Is this the God of the New Testament?

What if the book you take as giving you God's words instead contains human words?

It took a long time indeed for Jesus to be God in the complete, full, and perfect sense, the second member of the Trinity, equal with God from eternity and "of the same essence" as the Father.

It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.

The earliest Christians held that God had exalted Jesus to a divine status at his resurrection. (This shows, among other things, that this is not simply a "skeptical" view or a "secular" view of early Christology; it is one held by believing scholars as well.)

For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (1 Cor.

It is important to remember that the emperor of Rome, who also lived in the city, was understood by many people throughout the empire to be the son of God—that is, the son of the divinized Caesar who preceded him.

declaring himself to be divine.

Augustus was deified and called "divine

the worship that is due only to the gods.

Proceed from earth! Proceed to heaven! Proceed!" Apollonius was being told, in other words, to ascend to the realm of the gods.