podcast 63 – Thomas Belsham and other scholars on John 8:58
“Before Abraham was, I was already, in God’s plan, the Messiah.”
“Before Abraham was, I was already, in God’s plan, the Messiah.”
“Before Abraham, I am.” What did Jesus, or the author of the fourth gospel, mean here? In this episode we hear how some ancient authors interpreted John 8:58, including the famous North African bishop Augustine of Hippo.
Interrogations, closing statements, and audience Q & A.
A conversation with the author of the Paideia John commentary on Jesus and God in the fourth gospel.
His views seem to have been those of present-day biblical unitarians.
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:26:36 podcast 61 – Dr. Dustin Smith on preexistence in ancient Jewish thought Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify If a native English speaker says “you have a frog in your throat,” this means that your voice doesn’t sound normal, but is low, broken, “croaky.” It is a mistake to think… Read More »podcast 61 – Dr. Dustin Smith on preexistence in ancient Jewish thought
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:41:32 podcast 62 – Dr. Dustin Smith on the preexistence of Jesus in the gospel of John Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify Does the fourth gospel teach that Jesus existed long before his conception, even before the creation of the cosmos? Most readers think so. But in this episode Dr.… Read More »podcast 62 – Dr. Dustin Smith on the preexistence of Jesus in the gospel of John
At the Stand to Reason blog (this is the apologetics ministry founded by the inimitable Greg Koukl) I’ve been interacting with a few people on the question: Where Did Jesus Claim to Be God? In the current evangelical style, the poster Melinda Penner seems to understand this as equivalent to claiming to be God himself, to saying “I am God.” Never mind whether or not… Read More »Where did Jesus claim to be God?
Reading the gospel of John in its first-century context is eye-opening!
In this second conversation, Mr. Kermit Zarley and I discuss a number of themes from his book The Restitution of Jesus Christ, including
the evangelical tradition of saying that “Jesus is God” or “Jesus is divine,” the biblical phrases “Son of God” and “the Son of God,” the texts commonly read as teaching that Jesus existed before his conception in Mary.
The original meaning of John 1, disentangled from later speculations about Trinity and two natures christology.
Does the famous “Great Commission” passage at the end of Matthew teach that the one God is a Trinity?
John 17:1-3, closing statements, and audience Q&A. Which side made the stronger case?
Does chapter one of the earliest gospel (Mark) portray Jesus as the God of Israel, as Yahweh himself? This is part of what Dr. Michael Bird argues in this second half of the debate.
An appealing theological option which is neither Nicene nor “Arian”?
“I had come to this belief truly just through studying the Word.”
If all and only people whom God eternally and unconditionally chooses are saved, then why aren’t all people saved? In this episode I interact with Dr. John Piper’s answer, which focuses on Romans 9:22-23