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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 […]

F.D. Bruner, Matthew: A Commentary, vol. 2, 2007, pp 423-24. The citation in Matt 22:44 is Ps 110:1. The key phrase is the first: “The Lord […]

First, note that throughout the Gospel of John Jesus repeatedly claims to be the Messiah, i.e., the prophet God had told Moses about back in Deut […]

No because The 2nd lord is called adoni not Adonai, i.e., YHWH; Jesus is the lord Messiah and not the LORD God. God commands Jesus to […]

Exert from When Jesus Became God, pp 205-06. Together the three Cappadocians developed the ideas that would make it possible for conservative Arians and Nicene Christians eventually to […]

In Luke 22:19 Jesus says, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” Luke had previously said, “Now the […]

Background: Jesus Vs Samaritans The Samaritans are the descendants of two groups: (1) the remnant of the native Israelites who were not deported at the fall […]

Many non-trinis are under the impression that Matt 28:19 is a trini formula, therefore a corruption. But here are 3 reasons why the text is neither […]

In Rom 8:26 Paul says the Spirit intercedes “for the saints according to the will of God.” If we look at the immediate context, along with […]

As early as the 2nd century AD Irenaeus, a bishop in modern-day Turkey, wrote that the text in Genesis 1.1 said: “The Son in the beginning: God […]

By Sir Anthony F. Buzzard In John’s Gospel Jesus spends time explaining that he was going to leave them and go to the Father (not “go […]

Church historian and biblical scholar Kevin Giles in his book The Eternal Generation of the Son provides the following list: Irenaeus, Ag. Her. 3.6: The Father […]

Another way to understand this much debated passage is through the lens of what’s known as Adam Christology. What is it? By “the 1960s & 1970s […]