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God the Father

deity sky Christian corroborated · 6

According to Arius, God the Father created the Son, indicating that the Son was a lesser being who was not eternal and of a different "essence" from God the Father.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
0 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in the context of the Arian controversy.

Relationships

parent of
the Son, Jesus
co occurs with
Moirai, Badb, Macha, Mórrígan, Laima, Kārta, Dēkla, Parcae, Norns, Hermes Trismegistus, The Mother, the Father, Micheus, Michar, Mnesinous, God the Holy Ghost, Ancient of Days, Mother of God, Hecate, Son of Man, Holy Spirit, God
sibling of
the Son, the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
allied with
angels, saints, Holy Ghost
served by
Jesus, Holy Ghost, angels

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (4)
  1. Ambrose
  2. Triple goddesses
  3. Ancient of Days
  4. Jesus in Christianity
encyclopedia (2)
  1. Agnosticism (Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)) (1913)
    peer reviewed
  2. Albrecht Dürer (Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)) (1913)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Arius (died 336) was a Christian priest who around the year 300 asserted that God the Father must have created the Son, indicating that the Son was a lesser being who was not eternal and of a different "essence" from God the Father.”

#1363 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Modalism is a form of Christian Unitarianism which stands in opposition to Trinitarianism and holds that the one God is also just one person, but appears in three different forms: the Father, Son, and Spirit. Modalism holds that the same one God appears in different forms throughout history”

#20794 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In the Western Church similar figures usually represent only God the Father. Thomas Aquinas, for example, identifies the Ancient of Days with God the Father, quoting Hilary of Poitiers' comment that "eternity is in the Father".”

#25750 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“the declaration that Jesus is the Son of God is made by many individuals in the New Testament, and on two occasions by God the Father as a voice from Heaven. John 17:24 also refers to the Father loving Jesus 'before the foundation of the world'.”

#37779 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Harnack locates the essence of Christianity in a filial relation felt towards an unknowable God the Father.”

#44635 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free