podcast 307 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 3
Dr. Michael Bird argues that in Mark, Jesus is “included in the identity” of God.
Dale Tuggy (PhD Brown 2000) was Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia from 2000-2018. He now works outside of academia in Middle Tennessee but continues to learn and podcast.
Dr. Michael Bird argues that in Mark, Jesus is “included in the identity” of God.
Does the Gospel According to Mark contain as hidden messages the deity of Christ and the Trinity?
What sort of book is the gospel according to Mark, and what does it really claim about Jesus?
A Wesleyan ministry tells new Christians about “The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith.”
I answer some questions and ask some, in response to this well done book review.
I have gone through all six. Which stage are you at, and what is keeping you from moving to the next?
“It’s stunning; there is nothing in the Bible that says Jesus had faith.”
Why it is just as obviously a confusion to run together Jesus and God as it is to run together Jesus and the Father.
How Trinity theories cause a “blind spot” when reading the New Testament.
Dr. Hurtado calls out a common confusion which many historical trinitarian sources do not contain.
‘How can I help it?’ he blubbered. ‘How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.’
A narrative of the series of early speculations that eventually led to the idea of the Trinity as the one God.
According to Dr. Boyarin, most 1st c. non-Christian Jews could accept John 1:1-13.
Is God’s spirit in the New Testament supposed to be a self in addition to God and his Son?
A conversation about whether or not the New Testament teaches “Trinity Monotheism.”
A penetrating discussion of John 1 by famous Harvard scholar Andrews Norton.
Does it make sense to say that God is a soul with three cognitive and volitional faculties – but is nonetheless not a self?