podcast 320 – Thoughts on my debate with Rogers about Mark – Part 2 – interpretive fails
Adventures in theologically-motivated misinterpretation.
Christology
Is Jesus God? @TheOfficerTatum vs. Whaddo You Meme??
Does Scripture clearly teach that “Jesus is God”?
podcast 319 – Thoughts on my debate with Rogers about Mark – Part 1 – culture clash
Why “that’s just Philosophy” is no excuse for a failure of basic critical thinking.
podcast 318 – Debate with Rogers – Does Mark teach that Jesus is God? – Part 2
Cross-examinations, discussion, closing statements, and audience Q&A.
evangelical apologists take note: Hurtado on Jesus and God
“…in the New Testament Jesus is not worshiped ‘as God’ (whatever that may mean) but, instead, with reference to God, as the Son of God, as the Lord appointed by God…”
podcast 316 – Review of Papandrea, Trinity 101: Father, Son, Holy Spirit
“…the doctrine of the Trinity is not in Scripture per se, but is the result of the Church’s interpretation of Scripture.”
podcast 315 – Review of Ryken and LeFebvre, Our Triune God
“For all its complexity, the biblical doctrine of the Trinity can be stated in seven simple propositions.”
podcast 313 – Weighing Channing Unitarianism
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
podcast 308 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 1
A famous manifesto of unitarian Christianity from 1819
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.
podcast 306 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 2
Does the Gospel According to Mark contain as hidden messages the deity of Christ and the Trinity?
podcast 305 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 1
What sort of book is the gospel according to Mark, and what does it really claim about Jesus?
podcast 304 – The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith
A Wesleyan ministry tells new Christians about “The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith.”
podcast 303 – Rauser’s review of Is Jesus Human and not Divine?
I answer some questions and ask some, in response to this well done book review.
Did Jesus have faith in God?
“It’s stunning; there is nothing in the Bible that says Jesus had faith.”
the Son ain’t the Father, so the Son ain’t God
Why it is just as obviously a confusion to run together Jesus and God as it is to run together Jesus and the Father.
“Well OF COURSE they distinguish the Son from the Father!”
How Trinity theories cause a “blind spot” when reading the New Testament.
Dr. Larry Hurtado: don’t confuse Jesus with God
Dr. Hurtado calls out a common confusion which many historical trinitarian sources do not contain.
Evolution of the Trinity – with Bill Schlegel
A narrative of the series of early speculations that eventually led to the idea of the Trinity as the one God.