October 23, 2021
In John 5:43-44 Jesus says to his fellow Jews “I have come in my Father’s name [and] you don’t seek the glory that comes from the […]
October 22, 2021
In the 1500s Protestant Laelio Sozzini (or Socinus) set about to reinterpret John 1:1. He argued that since the Gospels sometimes use the word “beginning” to […]
September 22, 2021
From Harpur, For Christ’s Sake, 1986, p. 10-11. “Very few preachers can give a reasonable account of either the doctrine of the Trinity or the doctrine […]
September 22, 2021
BY JAMES R. EDWARDS Published in Christianity Today, MARCH 4, 1996 Nothing seems more incongruous than scholarship as a spectator sport and scholars as celebrities. Academic […]
September 22, 2021
From Jesus Was Not a Trinitarian by Sir Anthony F. Buzzard. In no verse in the Bible (and there are some 31,102 verses) is the word […]
August 14, 2021
by Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, ed. Dunn, 2003. As the human being described in Daniel 7, the human being to whom divine authority is granted, […]
August 14, 2021
by Rives, Did Calvin Murder Servetus? Why do Servetus’ arguments on the trinity doctrine appear so normal now? Because it comports better with Scripture trinity doctrine. […]
August 14, 2021
by Charles Freeman, A New History of Early Christianity (2011, Yale University Press) It was inevitable that Augustine would be asked to defend the Nicene Trinity, […]
July 15, 2021
By Charles Freeman, History Today, Volume 58, Issue 2, February 2008. The doctrine of the Trinity – that God the Father, Jesus the begotten Son of […]
July 15, 2021
Jesus’ Transfiguration and the Believers’ Transformation: A Study of the Transfiguration and Its Development in Early Christian Writings By Simon S. Lee · 2009 First of […]
July 12, 2021
Under the Old Covenant there were many purification laws prohibiting the touching of certain things considered unclean, e.g., the sick, women, the dead (Num. 5; 9.14; […]
June 19, 2021
From Raymond Brown, The Gospel According to John, vol. 29, 1966, pp 523-24. The Memra of the Lord in the Targums is not simply a translation […]
June 14, 2021
by Sir Anthony Buzzard Number 1: “To us Christians there is one God, the Father” (1 Cor. 8:6). Are you prepared to believe this? This is […]
June 7, 2021
Many point to so-called Yahweh texts applied to Jesus in order to prove that Jesus is God. These include texts like Joel 2:32 [“call on the […]
April 13, 2021
From Extracanonical parallel texts on the Gospels by A. Resch. The pre-canonical text for John 1:13 read as per the agreement of Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Ambrosius, […]
April 13, 2021
Many point to the earliest Christian writers (aka “Church Fathers”) and decisions by ecumenical councils like Nicea in 325AD., Chalcedon in 451AD as “proof” that Jesus […]
April 13, 2021
Paul’s command in Philippians 2 calls on Christians to have the same mindset that “was also in Christ Jesus who, although existing (huparchon) in the form […]
March 29, 2021
The Bible describes the Father as the singular Creator of Genesis. We know this by the thousands of singular personal pronouns and singular verbs like Gen 1.27. […]
March 1, 2021
The writings of OT prophets like Zechariah are being used by some Trinitarians as “proof texts” for multiple Yahwehs in the OT. They do this by misreading a […]
February 19, 2021
I found this article from a religious news site National Catholic Report called: We must remember Christianity is Jesus, not a doctrine It reads in part: […]
February 19, 2021
By Edward H. Hall, 1883. In the first three Gospels then, Jesus appears exclusively as the Jewish Messiah or Christ. And the Jewish Messiah, I need […]
February 19, 2021
How can one avoid drawing from this designation the conclusion that [Jesus] is the one and only “God”? Several scribes of the early church adroitly handled […]
January 18, 2021
“The Jews, the people of God, have always considered him as one person only, that is, one in a numerical sense.” John Milton’s Last Thoughts on […]
January 18, 2021
Just because Logos is a Greek masculine noun, doesn’t make it a person. Because grammatical gender should not be confused with biological gender, e.g., just because […]