July 10, 2025
If you check any standard lexicon you’ll find that this word was simply understood as God’s creative “speech, reason, plan,” etc. Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to […]
July 10, 2025
Gen 19:23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven, 25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the surrounding area, and all the […]
July 10, 2025
In May, 2025, my wife Sarah and I traveled to Europe and were blessed to visit some historic unitarian sites that I have long wanted to […]
May 15, 2025
by Anthony F. Buzzard Jesus’ claims for himself direct us to belief in him as the Son of God, certainly not God as part of a […]
May 15, 2025
Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130–202 AD) Quote: “For the angels did not make themselves—for every creature is subject to change, even the angels themselves—but He who […]
May 15, 2025
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, […]
April 11, 2025
Exerts from Important Doctrines of the True Christian Religion, 1848. Notice the terms in which God himself commands us to acknowledge and worship him in the […]
April 11, 2025
Hebrew biblical tradition understands angels, aka spirits as God’s creatures. The Jewish Encyclopedia observes that rabbinic teaching “emphatically declares [angels] to have been created by God” […]
April 11, 2025
The following quotes reflect Reformation and modern-day Trinitarian focus on faith as an active, future-oriented trust in God, often at the expense of temporal comfort—themes central to […]
January 2, 2025
The seed of the woman, Gen. 3:15; God raiused up a prophet from the Israelites, Deut. 18:18; He is the root/shoot out of Jesse, Isa 11:1,10; […]
January 2, 2025
by Paul Fiorilla, journalist. Ignoring the words of Jesus has led to the introduction of tragic error into orthodox Christian theology, as readers of this newsletter […]
January 2, 2025
The Greek prototokos can mean first in rank, supremacy, preeminence not first in time: Even the Watchtower acknowledges the correct meaning of the term by admitting: […]
December 5, 2024
Kirk, A Man Attested by God. Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel Many of the texts that this chapter explores can be interpreted as indicating Jesus’s […]
December 5, 2024
The OT Hebrew oftentimes uses a literary device in poetic or prophetic prose of blending or mixing pronouns, i.e., “a more or less abrupt transition from […]
December 5, 2024
Davis, The Name and Way of the Lord. I now turn to texts about God’s agent. A number of Jewish traditions interpret an Old Testament text […]
September 9, 2024
The world has a general view of Jesus as more than human. That’s in large part due to the fact that most of Christianity believes in […]
September 9, 2024
That the only God is alone “eternal, immortal” is stated throughout the scriptures. And however you want to define death, Paul says it’s something God simply […]
September 9, 2024
At the heart of the so-called doctrine of the Trinity is what many theologians and philosophers call a problem of logic! In The Journal of Religion […]
July 27, 2024
Word Biblical Commentary on Galatians, vol. 41. For Dunn, then, “we cannot safely assume that Paul intended [in 4:4-5] an allusion to Christ as pre-existent Son […]
July 27, 2024
For centuries now, historians and biblical scholars alike have come to the conclusion that Mary and Joseph were related. A close study of both geneological trees […]
July 27, 2024
2 John 3 Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God who is the Father and from Jesus Messiah, the Son of the Father, in […]
April 2, 2024
The Bible is a story about two different lords, the LORD God and the lord Messiah. The Bible carefully distinguishes between these two lords in two […]
April 2, 2024
Rev. John Whale, Christian Doctrine. “The systematic thought of the Church inevitably involved a further definition of monotheism, an elaboration of the unitary conception of the […]
April 2, 2024
In 1992 a book was published called Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul’s Christology by David Capes. The book focused on texts that refer to YHWH […]
