May 27, 2020
Robertson’s Word Pictures in the NT: John’s standpoint is that of the OT and not that of the Stoics nor even of Philo who uses the […]
April 29, 2020
John 17:3, a favorite verse for non-trinitarians, has been appropriated by many modern-day apologists and authors for the Jesus-is-God Movement. But this was not always so. […]
April 29, 2020
J.D.G. Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? pp 130-31. The uninhibitedness of Revelation’s christology is easily illustrated: Its vision of Jesus as the Son of […]
April 29, 2020
What Did Jesus Look Like? By Joan E. Taylor Scholars have identified that Jesus is portrayed as the new Moses in the Gospel of Matthew, but […]
March 31, 2020
By James McGrath, The Only True God, p 74f. The sacrificial worship due to God alone is thus not shared in Revelation. What is shared are […]
March 31, 2020
From The Anchor Bible Dictionary article on “God,” God in the NT, by Joulette M. Bassler. 1. The One God. Many of the functions of God—creative […]
March 31, 2020
Many assume that the “word” in John 1:1 is a person because in Greek logos is grammatically a masculine gender noun (logos) accompanied by masculine pronouns […]
February 29, 2020
by John Yates, 1816. The unity of God, as one individual person, is denoted throughout the Bible by the almost constant use of singular pronouns, whenever […]
February 29, 2020
In Psalm 89:19 David is called Gibbor, Mighty. Other human beings like the men of David in 2 Sam 23.8 and kings are called mighty as […]
February 29, 2020
From the Anchor Bible Dictionary article on “Incarnation.” Does the authority expressed by Jesus not carry with it an implicit claim to incarnation? The But I […]
February 3, 2020
The reason why God granted Jesus unprecedented authority was not just that he was the promised Jewish Messiah, uniquely authorized agent of God; but more precisely […]
February 3, 2020
1st-century Judaism knew a good deal of speculation about hero figures who had been exalted to heaven and given some participation in God‘s judgment, e.g., Enoch, […]
February 3, 2020
The idea of God as a little baby is one of the most disruptive theological suggestions ever made by Giles Fraser Christmas can be a bad […]
January 3, 2020
The Father is called “the one God” or “the only God” at least 30 times by John in his Gospel! For example, in the classic, clear […]
January 3, 2020
The Hebrews and Greeks did indeed have a word for a person. It is the word we most often see translated as “soul.” When the Bible […]
January 3, 2020
The 6,828 occurrences of YHVH never appear as kurios mou (my lord) in the LXX, the Greek version of the NT which is very frequently cited […]
December 13, 2019
by J. R. Griffiths, Mus. BAC. It is now generally admitted that our manner of spending Christmas is very largely a perpetuation of customs prevailing not […]
December 13, 2019
by Anthony Buzzard From the early second century, or even earlier in the days of John, and calling forth John’s impassioned plea to stay with Jesus […]
December 13, 2019
Many of the early and late so-called Church Fathers applied John 1:13 to the virgin birth of Jesus and not the spiritual rebirth of the Christian. […]
October 30, 2019
The following translation/paraphrase of Galatians 3:20 from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition, is quite amazing: “There can be no mediator with just one Person. Yet God […]
October 30, 2019
Moses said honor your parents (Mar 7.10) but God said it (Mat 15.4); Moses says (Mar 12:26) but God said it (Mat 22:31); Moses gave the […]
October 30, 2019
From The Cambridge History of the Bible vol. 1. THE VALUE OF VERSIONAL ATTESTATION It is basic to the hypothesis of change in this period and […]
September 28, 2019
The central answer to this question is that the word “Israel” is always a “masculine, singular” noun in biblical Hebrew. One of the basic studies for […]
September 28, 2019
by Carol Siders God became sin for us!! And God made God who had no sin to become sin for us so that in God we […]
