To Florus 1.50

Away with you, then, and this God of yours from the midst of the churches! He is not the one in whom the patriarchs, prophets, and apostles believed, in whom the church of the firstborn enrolled in heaven has hoped and still hopes (Hebrews 12:23). He is not the one whom rational creatures believe to be their judge, whom the Holy Spirit declares will judge justly. No sensible person would ever have shed his blood for such a Lord. He would not deserve the affection of love that could place on anyone the burden of suffering for him. Finally, if the one you introduce existed anywhere, he would be proved a defendant, not a god: someone to be judged by my true God, not someone to judge in God's place.

Learn, then, the first foundations of faith. Our God, the God of the catholic Church, is unknown to us in his substance and likewise beyond our sight, “whom no human being has seen or can see” (1 Timothy 6:16). As he is eternal without beginning, so he is holy and just without fault: supremely powerful, supremely fair, supremely merciful, made known only by the radiance of his virtues. He is the maker of all that did not exist, the ruler of all that exists, and on the last day the examiner of all who exist, will exist, or have existed. He will shake earth, heaven, and all the elements together; he will raise the ashes and restore bodies. But everything we have named he will do for justice alone (compare Hebrews 12:26–27; John 5:28–29).