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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, […]

by Stanford Rives The “Servetus Affair” Calvin: “Servetus has just sent me a long volume of his ravings. If I consent he will come here, but […]

From Priority of John by J.A.T. Robinson The traditional supranaturalistic way of describing the Incarnation almost inevitably suggests that Jesus was really God almighty walking about […]

The image simply means sitting in a place of honor next to someone who is your superior. Here’s a good example from Mar 10.37 where the […]

From Christology in the Making, Dunn, 1980, p 243. The conclusion which seems to emerge from our analysis thus far is that it is only with […]