According to the biblical prophetic witness of both Testaments, the Messiah had to come from a specific human lineage. He would be “the seed of the […]
To understand 1 Peter 3:18–20, we must first understand biblical typology. In Scripture, a “type” is an earlier person, event, or institution that foreshadows a later […]
The apostle John gives a clear test of true Christology in 1 John 4:2-3. The question is not whether a self-professed Christian says the name “Jesus,” […]
Exerts from Harvey, Jesus and the Constraints of History. But there is [an] aspect of the relationship of son to father which is of significance for […]
Most Christians believe in the Trinity because it became the official doctrine of institutional Christianity—not because the Bible clearly defines God as three persons. The doctrine […]
There is no biblical evidence showing that the one God of Israel, who is identified by the personal Hebrew divine name Yahweh, eternally exists as three […]
2 Samuel 7:12 establishes one of the most basic requirements of the Messiah: he has to be descended biologically and literally from David. That is the […]
by Anthony F. Buzzard There is an extraordinary confusion among some unitarian Bible students as to the identity of Jesus. They propose that Jesus is Michael […]