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Derivation vs. Generic Theories — part 3: The Derivation View (JT)
Now Q comes with spring arm action
and dyno bud (optional)!
The Nicene Creed claims that
(Q) The Son is begotten from the substance of the Father.
The term ‘begotten’ is just an older English term for ‘generated’. In the ancient world, ‘generation’ was a technical term for biological reproduction (e.g., when humans make baby humans, when trees make baby trees, and so on). In this post, I want to describe how Athanasius takes Q to imply a derivation view of the trinity.
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Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 2 – Redirection (Dale)
The smell of this will get you off the trail…
An example:
Doubting Don: What’s this Incarnation business? Jesus was God and a human? But isn’t that saying that he is and isn’t God?
Redirecting Rebecca: Isn’t it amazing that God loved us so much, that while we were yet sinners, he sent his only Son to redeem us?Read More »Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 2 – Redirection (Dale)
podcast 196 – Noah Worcester on Atonement – Part 1
Did God punish Jesus on the cross with the punishment due us all?
podcast 351 – Thoughts on my Dialogue with Craig on the Trinity and the Bible – Part 2
Is the “Granville Sharp Rule” + 2 Peter 1:1 and Titus 2:13 “fatal to unitarianism”?
podcast 258 – Who is the one Creator? – Part 1
What do both OT and NT clearly teach about who created?
podcast 280 – Have yourself an Incarnation-free Christmas
Why no mention of Incarnation in the birth narratives of Matthew and Luke?
podcast 149 – Dr. Larry Hurtado’s Destroyer of the gods – Part 1
Why did Roman rulers and polemicists find early Christianity so alarming, rather than just another religion?
podcast 240 – Dr. Beau Branson on the Monarchy of the Father – Part 2
Is the first Catholic conciliar statement about a tripersonal God in the late 9th c.?
Simeon says…
Who was born on the first Christmas? According to Luke, God revealed this information to a Jewish prophet named Simeon: Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see… Read More »Simeon says…
Jude 5: Did Jesus deliver the people out of Egypt?
Is it “Lord” or “Jesus” here? What’s a layperson to do?
podcast 113 – the council at Antioch in 341
What happened after the famous council at Nicea in 325? Was there rejoicing and peace, now that the “Arian” controversy had been definitively settled? Sadly, no.
podcast 204 – Conversation with a frustrated trinitarian – Part 1
If only trinitarian scholars majored in consistent, intelligible, fully informed answers!
Merry Christmas!
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you… Read More »Merry Christmas!
That important doctrine… whatever it is
I was reading an article on the Trinity by Phillip Cary, and was struck by this passage, at the start of his paper. When I was growing up in the faith, I heard a lot about the doctrine of the Trinity, but never learned what the doctrine was. In high school and college I worshiped at faithful, Biblical churches in which pastors often affirmed the… Read More »That important doctrine… whatever it is
Jerry Walls: What is wrong with Calvinism?
Devastating. I have long noted that Augustinian/Calvinist theology is unpopular among Christian philosophers, though many, like me, go through a Calvinist phase (when I was a sophomore and junior in college), before seeing its problems to be hopeless. Walls concisely and fairly sums up what Calvinism is all about, and then shows it to be profoundly problematic, focusing on philosophical problem rather than biblical ones.… Read More »Jerry Walls: What is wrong with Calvinism?
podcast 259 – Who is the one Creator? – Part 2
No, the NT does not teach that Jesus created the cosmos.
The Latin Trinity Chart 2 – a version of FSH modalism
Here’s a second application for my Latin Trinity chart (see the first post for what the letters designate). Let’s say that a state of affairs is a thing/substance having a property at a time or timelessly.
The “persons” here are just modes of D, that is, states of affairs involving D. So the Son just is D having Fi. And the Father just is D having P. And the Holy Spirit just is D having Sp. Regarding each of F, S, and H, each of them “just is” D – in the sense that in each of them, there is one and the same D.Read More »The Latin Trinity Chart 2 – a version of FSH modalism