Plato's Demiurge & gnostics erroneous theories about Creation - rejected

SOLI DEO GLORIA

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one Mediator also between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus (God Incarnate)

   • Athanasius Early Church Father  
chapter 1/part 3 #Athanasius on the Incarnation of the Word of GOD - JESUS CHRIST
{De Incarnatione Verbi Dei}

Full Book pdf - https://www.monergism.com/incarnation...

"Others take the view expressed by Plato, that giant among the Greeks. He said that God had made all things out of pre-existent and uncreated matter, just as the carpenter makes things only out of wood that already exists. But those who hold this view do not realize that to deny that God is Himself the Cause of matter is to impute limitation to Him, just as it is undoubtedly a limitation on the part of the carpenter that he can make nothing unless he has the wood. How could God be called Maker and Artificer if His ability to make depended on some other cause, namely on matter itself? If He only worked up the existing matter and did not Himself bring the matter into being, He would be not the Creator but only a craftsman.

Then, again, there is the theory of the Gnostics, who have invented for themselves an Artificer of all things other than the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. These simply shut their eyes to the obvious meaning of Scripture. For instance, the Lord, having reminded the Jews of the statement in Genesis, “The One who created them in the beginning made them male and female...”, and having shown that, for that reason, a man should leave his parents and cling to his wife, goes on to say with reference to the Creator, “What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
How can they get a creation independent of the Father out of that? And, again, St. John, speaking all inclusively, says, “All things became by Him and without Him nothing came into being.
How then could the Artificer be someone different, other than, the Father of Christ -Athanasius

#creationism #creationist #creation #bookstoread #earlychurchfathers #epicurean #evidence #evolutionism #evolution #science #biblicaltruth #GodIsSoAmazing #greeks #philosophy #atheist #truth #christianity #trustWordofGod #genesis #solascriptura #believe #Acts17 #mankind #bibleistruth #WordofGod #gender #male #female #sun #universe #demiurge #plato #gnosticism #newage #theories #clouds #knowledge #sky #nature #GodisAwesome