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by anthonybuzzard@mindspring.com This procedure is to confuse the numeral adjective “one” with the noun it modifies. It is to “bleed” the meaning of a collective noun […]

Who Partakes? The disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover. For I pass on to you what I received from the […]

by anthonybuzzard@mindspring.com One can appeal to the man mediator, Jesus (John 14:14, not KJV). According to the apostle Paul, New Testament Christians were everywhere praying to […]

The Gospel of John is used, or I should say misused, to “prove” Jesus is God! Yet, ironically, the gospel is primarily defined by Father–Son language […]

Following are excerts from an article on John 1:14 by Bill Schlegel under the subtitle A Trans-essence god. I suggest Christians are being hypocritical when they […]

The “Us” verses: Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8 Scripture describes God as “I”, “He,” “Him,” “Me” repeatedly. When on a very rare occasion God says, […]

In Matthew 28.19 Jesus commands his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the […]

From the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament vol. 5, pp 711-12. Already from the pre-Pauline period Jesus is extolled in psalms as the servant of […]

From Christianity Today, by L.F. Dean, Jan. 19, 1959 Origin And Development Believers in the unity to the exclusion of the tri-personality of God have ideological […]

“So completely is the ideal Davidic king identified with the purposes of God that he can be dignified with the titles of God himself [e.g., Ps. […]

From Christology in the Making, Dunn, 1980, p 243. The conclusion which seems to emerge from our analysis thus far is that it is only with […]

The image simply means sitting in a place of honor next to someone who is your superior. Here’s a good example from Mar 10.37 where the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]