Will Rutherford: Justin Martyr Believed Jesus was a Second God Numerically Distinct from God the Father

  

He quotes a foundational proof-text, Genesis 19:24, to show that there exists “another God” numerically distinct from the Father of the universe. (Will Rutherford “Altercatio Jasonis et Papisci as a Testimony Source for Justin’s ‘Second God’ Argument?,” in Justin Martyr and His Worlds, ed. Sara Parvis and Paul Foster [Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2007], 138)