What is essential to the gospel, according to Luke? Part 5
“Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
“Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
The apostles testify to God the creator and his holy servant Jesus.
Peter and John address the Jewish leadership.
An apostolic account of what is truly essential to the gospel.
What must you sign off on, to make the deal?
Is “the doctrine of the Trinity” essential to salvation? To Christianity?
What must I do, or what must I believe, to be saved?
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things, love.” So far, so good. But, what does Scripture say is essential teaching about Christ and about God?
“I had come to this belief truly just through studying the Word.”
Who needs the Bible when you can gesture at some philosophical speculations?
Is it the foundational commitment of biblical unitarians that Scripture must be inoffensive to human reason?
“The Gospel is Trinitarian.” What does this mean, and is it both true and non-trivial?
Some friendly disagreements about the prodigal son, women in Luke, and the deity of Christ in Luke.
The first ever Jewish and Christian commentary on a biblical book.
If God is essentially immortal, the answer must be: No. But the human Jesus of the Bible was then mortal.
I answer some questions and ask some, in response to this well done book review.
A Wesleyan ministry tells new Christians about “The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith.”
Do you think that you preexisted your conception? Me neither. True, there are cultures which presuppose this. But most of the human race, including ancient Jews, assumes that getting parented involves getting brought into existence some time between the sexual union and birth. You, the younger human being, exist because of what your parents did. This, I suggest, is the default human assumption. You exist because of them. Abe and Sarah… Read More »Buzzard’s textual arguments against Jesus’ pre-human existence – Part 3