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First, note that throughout the Gospel of John Jesus repeatedly claims to be the Messiah, i.e., the prophet God had told Moses about back in Deut […]

F.D. Bruner, Matthew: A Commentary, vol. 2, 2007, pp 423-24. The citation in Matt 22:44 is Ps 110:1. The key phrase is the first: “The Lord […]

Most translations inappropriately introduce the masculine pronoun “he” into John 1.1-2, rather than “it” or “this one.”[1] This prompts the reader into the mistake of thinking […]

How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the next 1,500 Years, J.P. Jenkins. “Christians must believe that God is […]

From Gospel of John, Commentary 2 vols. (2010) by Craig Keener God spoke the world into being in Gen 1, and John’s contemporaries continued to celebrate […]

The Nicene Creed is an example of what happens when unbelievers (like pagan philosophers and especially politicians, like Roman emperors) get mixed up in religion. First […]

In the famous oracle of Ps 110:1 David said: The LORD [i.e., YHWH] says to my lord [i.e., adoni]. The Hebrew word translated “my lord” is […]

By James Dunn, Explorations vol 8, Num 2, 1994. 1 Monotheism. The simple answer is that Christianity lost the clarity of a belief in God as […]

Christianity V. Ecclesiasticism: On the Historic Creeds and Ecclesiastics (Keble, Pusey, Newman), on Biblical Inspiration and Other Kindred Subjects, 1887 In his dying moments, so to […]

John 13:3 says the Son knew that he had come from God and was going to God. NOTE: Jesus never said he was returning or going […]

From the book The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God by Hanson, pp 804-05. Theodosius himself had been born and brought up in Spain and […]

This provides exactly the necessary commentary of John on his own gospel in John 1:1. It was the promise of life in the age to come, […]