January 10, 2019
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, […]
January 10, 2019
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 […]
December 1, 2018
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 […]
December 1, 2018
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 […]
December 1, 2018
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 […]
October 30, 2018
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 […]
October 30, 2018
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 […]
October 30, 2018
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 […]
September 5, 2018
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, […]
September 5, 2018
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 […]
September 5, 2018
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 […]
July 30, 2018
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 […]
July 30, 2018
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 […]
July 30, 2018
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. […]
June 29, 2018
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 […]
June 29, 2018
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 […]
June 29, 2018
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 […]
June 1, 2018
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). […]
June 1, 2018
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 […]
June 1, 2018
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 […]
May 23, 2018
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 […]
May 23, 2018
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 […]
May 23, 2018
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 […]
March 31, 2018
“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 […]