{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2111172.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2111172.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2111172.htm","text":"The authority of Holy Scripture teaches that Christ existed from all eternity.\nAnd yet to return to what we said before, though all these things are so, as we have stated: how do we read that Jesus Christ (whom you assert to be a mere man) was ever existing even before His birth of a Virgin, and how is He proclaimed by prophets and apostles as God even before the worlds? As Paul says: \u201cOne Lord Jesus, through whom are all things.\u201d 2579 And elsewhere he says: \u201cFor in Christ were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible.\u201d 2580 The p. 602 Creed too, which is framed both by human and Divine authority, says: \u201cI believe in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ, His Son.\u201d And after other clauses: \u201cVery God of Very God; by whom both the worlds were framed and all things were made.\u201d And further: \u201cWho for us came and was born of the Virgin Mary, and was crucified, and was buried.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XXI. The authority of Holy Scripture teaches that Christ existed from all eternity.","type":"page"}