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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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]