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Did the First Century Ecclesia Believe that Jesus Was Almighty God?

Edgar G. Foster

Various theologians and Church historians have written that Primitive
(first century) Christianity neither affirmed nor taught that Jesus
Christ is Almighty God (the second Person of the Trinity). Speaking on
our present theme, Brunner presents a balanced and thorough discussion
concerning the Trinity doctrine and its relation to first century
Christianity. After careful consideration of the New Testament and
ante-Nicene evidence, he concludes:

It was never the intention of the original witnesses to Christ in the
New Testament to set before us an intellectual problem--that of the
Three Divine Persons--and then to tell us silently to worship this
mystery of the "Three in One." There is no trace of such an idea in the
New Testament . . . The ecclesiastical doctrine of the Trinity is not
only the product of genuine Biblical thought, it is also the product of
philosophical speculation, which is remote from the thought of the
Bible . . . Similarly, the idea of the Three Persons is more than
questionable. Even Augustine felt this (cf. De Trinitate, V, 9). K.
Barth seems to share this misgiving (Kirchl. Dogm., I, I, p.703).[14]

While Brunner finds certain aspects of the Trinity doctrine
problematic, most contemporary Bible scholars and systematic
theologians contend that the Primitive Christian congregation
(ecclesia) believed Jesus the Messiah was essentially God. Some
scholars even claim that the New Testament writers held divergent views
about Christ or that their respective Christological systems show signs
of dialectical development (Anderson 1ff). Nevertheless, at least some
Protestant and Catholic theologians have candidly conceded that the
Trinity is not a strict Biblical doctrine. Certain thinkers have even
noted that the first century ecclesia did not believe that Jesus is
Almighty God nor did God's Primitive Christian people think that the
Son of God is consubstantial with the Father or ontologically identical
to the Holy Spirit.

Martin Werner is one such writer who reports: "From a high
angelic-being the Church made Christ a god in terms of the concept of
deity current in Hellenistic mythology" (Werner 215). This change,
avers Werner, took place in the post-apostolic era (214ff). The present
writer thinks that the change Werner recounts was, in fact, a deviation
from the primal tenets of first century Christianity, as we shall