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Mohammed was not a true prophet. And I say that because, you see, the true prophet must receive a direct call from God, especially if he will be the founder of a religion. Mohammed didn't receive a direct call from God.

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Proving for Muslims that Jesus is God - What Other Followers of Jesus Taught

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Apart from early New Testament manuscripts, we have another witness of Jesus' teaching, the writings of the early church. Here are what 14 of them taught.

Ignatius (died 107 or 116 A.D.) wrote frequently of Christ as God. For example, he wrote of "the blood of God" in chapter 1 of his letter to the Ephesians.

Letter to Diognetus (c.130 A.D.) a disciple of the apostles (chapter 100 in his Letter to Diognetus chapter 7 wrote of Christ sent as King, God, man, and savior.

Justin Martyr (wrote about 135-165 A.D.)

"The Word of Wisdom, who is Himself this God begotten of the Father of all things, ..." Dialogue with Trypho ch. 61. See ch.55,56,59,62-64,66,74-78.

Melito of Sardis (died 180 A.D.) said of the crucifixion that "God is murdered".

Theophilus, bishop of Antioch (115-181 A.D.) "For the divine writing itself teaches us that Adam said that he had heard the voice. But what else is this voice but the Word of God, who is also His Son?" Letter to Autolycus 2:22

Irenaeus (120-202 A.D.) wrote in Against Heresies 3:19:2, "Jesus is Himself in His own right, ...God, and Lord, ..."

Hippolytus (225-235/6 A.D.) in Against the Heresy of One Noetus mentioned "Son of God who, being God, became man."

Tertullian (200-220/240 A.D.) "The Word, therefore, is both always in the Father, as He says, 'I am in the Father;' and is always with God, according to what is written, 'And the Word was with God;' and never separate from the Father, or other than the Father, since 'I and the Father are one.'" Against Praxeus chapter 8.

Cyprian (246-258 A.D.) mentions "Jesus Christ, our God and Lord" in Treatise 9.6 on the Advantage of Patience p.485

Bishop Nemesianus of Thubunae mentions that "our Lord Jesus Christ spoke with His divine voice" The Seventh Council of Carthage (258 A.D.) p.566

Gregory Thaumaturgus (240-265 A.D.) calls Jesus "God the Word" in Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen argument 4 p.24.

Dionysius of Alexandria (246-265 A.D.) mentions the Son as being the brightness of eternal Light, and "He Himself also is absolutely eternal" The Son "co-exists with him, in that, existing without a beginning, and always begotten, He always shines before Him." Letter 4 - to Dionysius Bishop of Rome ch.4 p.92. Also "Christ is consubstantial with God." ibid ch.6 p.92

Dionysius of Rome (259-269 A.D.) has an entire work (1 1/5 pages) on how Christ, the Word is united with the Holy Spirit and God the Father. "For it is essential that the Divine Word should be united to the God of all, and that the Holy Spirit should abide and dwell in God; and thus that the Divine Trinity should be reduced and gathered into one, as if into a certain head - that is, into the omnipotent God of all." Against the Sabellians p.365-365

Theognostus of Alexandria (260 A.D.) teaches how the Son is born of the substance of the Father, as the reflection of light or as the steam of water". He said Jesus was not the Father, but an emanation from the substance of the Father with no partition. "For as the sun remains the same and suffers no diminution from the rays that are poured from it, os netiehr did the substance of the Father undergo any change in having the Son as an image of itself." Seven Books of hypotyposes or Outlines ch.1 p.155.

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