PAUL

“Apparently Paul did not call Jesus God” (Sydney Cave, Doctrine of the Person of Christ, p. 48).

“Paul habitually differentiates Christ from God” (Cadoux, A Pilgrim’s Further Progress, p. 40)

“Paul never equates Jesus with God” (The Problem of Christ in the Twentieth Century, W Matthews, p. 22).

“Paul never gives to Christ the name or description of God” (Dictionary of the Apostolic Church).

“When the New Testament writers speak of Jesus Christ, they do not speak of Him nor do they think of Him as God” (J.M. Creed, The Divinity of Jesus Christ, p. 22).

“Karl Rahner points out with so much emphasis that the Son in the New Testament is never described as ‘ho theos’ (God).” [A. T. Hanson, Grace and Truth.]

JOHN

“The clear evidence of John is that Jesus vigorously refuses the claim to be God or His substitute” (J.A.T. Robinson, Twelve More New Testament Studies, pp. 175-6).

“The writer of Revelation carries the equating of Christ with God to the furthest point short of making them eternally equal. Christ is still ‘the beginning of the creation of God’ (7:14) by which is probably to be understood that He Himself was part of the creation” (C. Anderson Scott, Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, Vol. I, p. 185).

“Jesus is not God but God’s representative, and as such, so completely and totally acts on God’s behalf that he stands in God’s stead before the world….The Gospel of John clearly states that God and Jesus are not to be understood as identical persons, as in 14:38, ‘the Father is greater that I.”‘ (Jacob Jervell, Jesus and the Gospel of John, p. 21).

LUKE

“In Acts 2:34-35 it is the attribute of lordship which is given to Jesus; He is not equated with Yahweh” (Tyndale Commentary on Acts, p. 80).