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How did the early Christian church fathers refute Julian the Apostate's argument regarding the divinity of Jesus?

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According to Julian the Apostate's *Against the Galileans*, no apostle claimed that Jesus was God until John, and they probably only did so to clarify an important dispute within a disunited church, stating: > "At any rate neither Paul nor Matthew nor Luke nor Mark ventured to call Jesus God. But the worthy John, since he perceived that a great number of people in many of the towns of Greece and Italy had already been infected by this disease and because he heard, I suppose, that even the tombs of Peter and Paul were being worshipped ----secretly, it is true, but still he did hear this,----he, I say, was the first to venture to call Jesus God." Given that the writings of Julian the Apostate on this matter survive only because he was quoted by the early Christian church fathers in their works so that they can refute him, how did the early Christian church fathers refute this particular argument of John the Apostate?
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Jan 25, 2025, 03:52 PM
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