Articles

Tertullian affirmed that the two natures of Christ “acted distinctly” and that while the two natures are “conjoined” in Jesus, they must not be confounded so […]

A recent trend by the Jesus-is-God movement is to point to Jude 4 in order to do away with the clear statement in John 17:3 where […]

James McGrath, John’s Apologetic Christology, pp 77-79. “The Johannine conflict with `the Jews’ over Christology was not about Jesus performing divine functions per se. If Jesus […]

Between Rev. W. B. H. Beach, of the Christian Denomination, and Rev. Y. Hickey, Presbyterian Minister, held in Presbyterian Church, Greenville, NY., 1867. A Methodist Minister […]

These titles are synonymous but applied in two different ways to God the Father and His Son, Jesus. For Jesus the “first and the last” means […]

Jesus is not “a second God” like Philo’s Logos; he is one with the Father, so that those who worship both Father and Son can still […]

Social trinitarians typically look to the Cappadocian Fathers as their champions. As we have seen, they explain the difference between substance and hypostasis as the difference […]

For historical, classical Trinitarians, Jesus’ declaration that the Father is “the only true God” in John 17:3 was certainly a problem—not it seems, for modern-day apologists. […]

For the Gospel of John “God is the Father, Jesus the Son of the Father” (2 John 3; cp. John 5.18, 25-27, 41-44; 6.27, 43-46, 68-69; […]

“God of Gods, and Lord of Lords“: Stephen D. Snobelen Newton defines the phrase “God of gods” as referring univocally to “God the father…the ancient of […]

What They’re Not Telling You! A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb A massive deception continues to be perpetrated on the public by Trinitarian […]

by Karl Rahner By theos the Greeks did not mean the unity of a definite personality in the monotheistic sense, but rather the unity of the […]

The theme that runs through the whole “suffering servant” cycle John 12:41 mentions is “glory.” So a paraphrase would be something like… ‘Isaiah said these things […]

Hebrews 1:10 is definitely about the Son and not the Father. It would be foolish to apply the context of the whole chapter as a reference […]

Yates, A Vindication of Unitarianism: In Reply to the Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, Part 4 When we read, that “there is one God, and there is none […]

Samuel Barrett, One Hundred Scriptural Arguments for the Unitarian Faith There are in the NT 17 passages wherein the Father is styled one or only God, […]

Haight, Jesus, Symbol of God. How is the divine Jesus [of Orthodoxy] related to the transcendent God of monotheistic faith? From a historical perspective one can […]

by Heikki Räisänen, chapter 6. Taken at face value, [Mark 7.15] looks like a radical if implicit attack on important parts of the Torah. If nothing […]

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, […]