December 10, 2022
From Priority of John by J.A.T. Robinson The traditional supranaturalistic way of describing the Incarnation almost inevitably suggests that Jesus was really God almighty walking about […]
November 8, 2022
by Stanford Rives The “Servetus Affair” Calvin: “Servetus has just sent me a long volume of his ravings. If I consent he will come here, but […]
November 8, 2022
This provides exactly the necessary commentary of John on his own gospel in John 1:1. It was the promise of life in the age to come, […]
November 8, 2022
From the book The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God by Hanson, pp 804-05. Theodosius himself had been born and brought up in Spain and […]
October 7, 2022
John 13:3 says the Son knew that he had come from God and was going to God. NOTE: Jesus never said he was returning or going […]
October 7, 2022
Christianity V. Ecclesiasticism: On the Historic Creeds and Ecclesiastics (Keble, Pusey, Newman), on Biblical Inspiration and Other Kindred Subjects, 1887 In his dying moments, so to […]
October 7, 2022
By James Dunn, Explorations vol 8, Num 2, 1994. 1 Monotheism. The simple answer is that Christianity lost the clarity of a belief in God as […]
September 9, 2022
In the famous oracle of Ps 110:1 David said: The LORD [i.e., YHWH] says to my lord [i.e., adoni]. The Hebrew word translated “my lord” is […]
September 9, 2022
The Nicene Creed is an example of what happens when unbelievers (like pagan philosophers and especially politicians, like Roman emperors) get mixed up in religion. First […]
September 9, 2022
From Gospel of John, Commentary 2 vols. (2010) by Craig Keener God spoke the world into being in Gen 1, and John’s contemporaries continued to celebrate […]
June 15, 2022
How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the next 1,500 Years, J.P. Jenkins. “Christians must believe that God is […]
June 15, 2022
Most translations inappropriately introduce the masculine pronoun “he” into John 1.1-2, rather than “it” or “this one.”[1] This prompts the reader into the mistake of thinking […]