Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

It is he who has manifested himself. He revealed himself through faith. To 
faith alone is it given to see God. God, the Ruler and creator of the 
universe, he who made all things and arranged them in proper order, was 
man’s friend and full of kindness and patience. This he always was, is,
and 
always will be: kind and good, slow to anger, and true. He alone is good. 
When he had conceived the great and ineffable thought, he communicated it 
only to his son. Now, as long as he kept and guarded his wise counsel 
within himself as a secret, it could appear as if he were not concerned
and 
did not care about us. But he disclosed what he had in mind from the 
beginning through his beloved son. Through him he revealed it. Thus he 
granted us all things at once, to share in his blessings, to perceive, and

to understand. Which of us could have expected all this?

Letter to Diognetus 8.5-9.