Who Said That?

Who said that?

Our faith, from our ancestors, which we have learned also from you, is this.  We know one God--alone unbegotten; alone everlasting, alone without beginning, alone true, alone possessing immortality, alone wise, alone good, alone master, judge of all, manager, director, immutable and unchangeable, just and good, God of Law, Prophets and New Testament--who begat an only begotten Son before eternal times, through whom he made the ages and everything."

Leave your guess in the comments section below!  No google searches! 

Update on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:26AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As some of you guessed, these words come from the arch-heretic Arius (in his letter to Alexander of Alexandria).  Sneaky heretic that he was, Arius goes on to define his earlier statement "begotten before eternal times" to mean, "he [the Son] was created by the will of God before times and ages."

Comments

[Echo_ohcE]

Low Christology, famous enough to be remembered...must be one of the early heretics who screwed up Christology. Maybe even caused the church to respond by writing a creed.

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[Joe]

Mr. T

[Joe]

Ice Cube?

[timinator]

At first it sounded like the nicene creed. After reading it a couple of times it is not, but sounds like something Joseph Smith might of said. My quess anyway.

[JoeW]

Joseph Smith or Brigham Young?

[Craig Phelps]

Arius?

[turmeric]

Joseph Smith couldn't write that well! Have any of you had the misfortune to try to read the Book of Mormon? Even when I was an unbeliever I couldn't bear his desecration of the King's English in an attempt to imitate the KJV! Arrrgh!

[R.K. Brumbelow]

As I stated earlier I think it is Arius if not it is certainly Arian. Come on guys you should be able to at least pick your heresy properly

[Craig Phelps]

Score, first two points?!