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by Loofs, p 188f. For it is quite plain that the beginning of John’s Gospel refers to the beginning of the first book of Moses. There […]

by Forbes, pp 45-6. BORROWING AND SHARING One of several competing legends about the origin of the Christmas tree centers on Boniface, an English Benedictine monk […]

Paul neither calls [Jesus] God, nor identifies him anywhere with God. It is true he does God’s work; he is certainly God’s special supernatural agent, who […]

From: A Commentary on Peter and Jude by Kelly, p 255. Some critics favour ‘Jesus’ [in Jude 5] pointing to the eagerness of Christian writers even […]

From Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? pages 117-123 Prior to John logos (“word,” a masculine noun) is personalized but not genderized (i.e., ‘he,’ ‘his’). The […]

British historian William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man, p 235. The church diverged in discipline and dogma more and more widely from its ancient form, […]

Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? by James Dunn. A persistent theme of [Hurtado’s, One God, One Lord] is that, though the language used to speak […]

What does the Bible mean by the word “god” [Heb. elohim; Gk. theos]? First, the plural ending of the Hebrew word for “god,” elohim, is traditionally […]

Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ, Thomas F. Torrance. Here we have a verse, not recognized often enough, where explicit mention is made of the […]

by Gerard Sigal In a unique ontological defining moment, God explains the meaning of His Name. In so doing, we get an insight into the ontological […]

by Anthony Buzzard Lee Strobel in his well known investigation of the Christian faith spoke with an evangelical professor, Ben Witherington. The conversation proceded as follows. […]

By Robert Lawrence Ottley, 1896. It is unnecessary, however, to notice in detail the Messianic conceptions of the apocalyptic literature. In some of the writings of this […]

I do not understand this as an address to Jesus; but thus, ”Yes; he it is indeed! He, my Lord and my God!” Yet, in giving […]

It has been said that the Christians came to speak of Christ as the Word, because, in the Jewish Targums, Memra, or the Word, was substituted […]

The Jewish-Christian worldview presents a series of renewals. First: the world of Genesis underwent a change after the flood (2Pet. 3.3-6; Rev. 6.12-14; cp. Isa 34.4). […]

By Anonymous Psalm 110:1 is the most quoted Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) verse in the New Testament! It is quoted or alluded to 23 times in […]

The “Jesus-is-God,” i.e., Yahweh argument: ‘Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory as God [YHWH] in a pre-incarnate state.’ What John actually describes: ‘Isaiah […]

The Great Catechism, chapters 1-4. “…the Christian who combats polytheism has need of care lest in contending against Hellenism he should fall unconsciously into Judaism…Thus the […]

By Etienne DID THE NEW COVENANT USHER IN TRINITARIANISM? The Messiah’s death on the cross was a watershed marking the end of the letter of the […]

By Bart Ehrman People today think that we should live ethically for a wide variety of reasons—most of them irrelevant to Jesus—for example, so we can […]

“Did not the doctrine of a heavenly aeon, rendered incarnate in the Redeemer, contain another remnant of the old Gnostic leaven? Did not the sending forth […]

By Ettiene WERE JESUS’ DISCIPLES PROFESSING TRINITARIANS? Some creedal statements uttered by Jesus’ disciples can be found in the gospels. They are listed below: Nathanael: “Rabbi, […]

By Anthony Buzzard Luke 1:35, Matthew 1:18, 20 and 1 John 5:18 (not KJV) say that the Son did not exist until he was created/begotten in […]

Brown-Driver-Briggs has “cherub of expansion,” “far-covering cherub,” and notes “the anointed cherub” translations [AV RV] is a “gloss…dubious” to some [Hä. Co, SiegfKau SS Buhl Berthol]. […]