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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 […]

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 […]