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5:1 Monotheism assumed.    At the time when the NT was written the popular colloquial language of much of the Mediterranean world was a dialect form […]

26th Theological Conference Handout “Hear & Obey [Shema] Israel, God is One Person [eis estin].” Deut. 6.4; Mark 12.29; cp. John 17.3; 1Cor 8.4-6 A.T. Robertson, […]

By Anthony F. Buzzard Jesus as the “alpha and omega” in Revelation means that he is the ultimate in the category under discussion. Jesus is the […]

“…the Scriptures point to the resurrected Jesus Christ as the chief of all angels—Michael the archangel. [Jesus is] no longer a human, he has the voice […]

By Anthony F. Buzzard When I asked Dr. Paula Fredriksen (From Jesus to Christ) why she reported the second lord of Psalm 110:1 as ADONAI, she […]

The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion, R.J.Z. Werblowsky, G. Wigoder, 1986, p. 15. “Agent (Heb. Shaliah): The main point of the Jewish law of agency is […]

John 14. 15f. “the Father will give you another [paraklete]…I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you…But the [paracletre] whom the Father […]

Benson Commentary: It seems there was a considerable number of the shepherds together here, for the expression implies that they watched by turns according to these […]

By Patrick Navas In my view Jesus himself poses the greatest challenge to atheism, and the most convincing reason for having faith in God. Why do […]

(From Old English Cristes maesse, “Christ’s mass”), Christian festival celebrated on December 25, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and also a popular secular holiday. According […]

From EL GIBBOR: http://www.angelfire.com/space/thegospeltruth/trinity/verses/Isaiah9_6-1.html The two words translated by Trinitarians as “Mighty God” at Isaiah 9:6 are the words “EL GIBBOR” where they translate the word […]

From, Christology in the Making by James Dunn. [For modern interpreters the phrase ‘The firstborn of all creation’ v.15b, denotes] precedence in rank rather than priority […]

by Anthony Buzzard Please consider these language facts about things which are held in reserve by God, stored up “with Him.” The Hebrew Bible speaks of […]

“Incarnation, in its full and proper sense, is not something directly presented in scripture. It is a construction built on the variegated evidence to be found […]

Chapter 2 Who Was the God of Jesus and His Followers? “Jesus taught no new doctrine of God…The God of whom Jesus speaks is the one […]

By Anthony Buzzard Professor Loofs, writing his history of dogma in 1895 (still not translated into English), spells out in detail the fateful move from Jesus […]

Nor were the Gnostics exempt from such charges, even though, as we have observed, orthodox heresiologists considered them somewhat exceptional in their abilities to find their […]

By Anthony Buzzard Trinitarianism and Arianism are stuck trying to oppose the easy language of Matt and Luke: One cannot come into existence if one already […]

By Alane Rozelle In John 9:9, the healed-but-formerly-blind man kept saying “I am”, the exact same two Greek words that Jesus uses when he makes his […]

By Greg Deuble (greg.thebiblejesus@gmail.com.au) “In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up …” (Isaiah 6:1). […]

In Rev 3.14 Jesus is said to be “the beginning (or first, Gk. arche) of the creation of God.” Many interpret this as meaning that the […]

“There is also the unexpected alternative reading of John 1.13, which changes the plural into singular: ‘…who believe on the name of him who was born, […]

According to the ordinary rules of language whenever monos (“alone”, “only”) is used with theos (“God”) or kurios (“LORD”, YHWH), it cannot mean more than 1 […]

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges that stretcheth … alone] Cf. ch. Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Job 9:8. by myself] The A.V. here follows the reading […]