podcast 76 – Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Part 3
How does Justin argue from Genesis that even when the world was created, there were two Lords?
Unitarianism
the evolution of my views on the Trinity – part 1
In this series I’m going to get a bit more personal.
podcast 75 – Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Part 2
When it came to christology, what did Justin Martyr consider essential, as in, you’re not a Christian unless you believe it? The answers may surprise you. In this episode we explore the christology of Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho.
podcast 73 – Is Proverbs 8 about Jesus? Part 3
What did the famous Justin Martyr teach about Proverbs 8, and why?
podcast 72 – Is Proverbs 8 about Jesus? Part 2
Do our earliest surviving post-New-Testament writings interpret Proverbs 8 as being about the pre-human Jesus?
Nasmith on the theology and christology of Acts
At his blog Cognitive Resonance, Ben Nasmith has some observations about the theology and christology of Acts: …according to Acts, the God of Israel is the one who raised Jesus from the dead and exalted him. As such, Jesus is not the God of Israel. He didn’t raise and exalt himself. Rather, the God of Israel is the Father of Jesus. He is the God… Read More »Nasmith on the theology and christology of Acts
podcast 71 – Is Proverbs 8 about Jesus? Part 1
“The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.” Is this famous passage in Proverbs 8 about the pre-human Jesus?
podcast 70 – The one God and his Son according to John
In my view, the fourth has been the most misunderstood gospel.
Word and Spirit: the “Everlasting Arms” of God
This is a guest post by Mr. Mario Stratta, a frequent commenter on this blog. He works in electronic engineering in Italy, and blogs on theological topics as “Miguel de Servet” at beliefnet. – Dale In the OT we find an obscure reference to the “eternal arms” of God: “The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath [you] are [his] eternal arms …” (Deut 33:27)… Read More »Word and Spirit: the “Everlasting Arms” of God
podcast 67 – Is Christmas a pagan holiday?
Is it a sin to celebrate Christmas, because Christmas is pagan in origin? In this episode I discuss this disputed question, and what I believe the apostle Paul would have to say about this ongoing dispute between Christians.
podcast 66 – Before Abraham was… what?
“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.
Christian-Muslim debate/discussion, December 12 in Melbourne
Announced on Steve Katsaras’s blog. Both Mr. Katsaras and Mr. Naga did well last time, which was a 3-way discussion: And here’s a later debate between Mr. Naga and evangelical apologist Samuel Green, called Jesus: Mighty Prophet or God with us?
podcast 63 – Thomas Belsham and other scholars on John 8:58
“Before Abraham was, I was already, in God’s plan, the Messiah.”
podcast 62 – Dr. Dustin Smith on the preexistence of Jesus in the gospel of John
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. Dustin Smith argues that rightly understood, this gospel neither assumes nor teaches that Jesus “preexisted,” that is, existed before he was a human. He argues that we should read the gospel according to John in light of… Read More »podcast 62 – Dr. Dustin Smith on the preexistence of Jesus in the gospel of John
podcast 59 – Dr. Carl Mosser on salvation as deification
When a Christian is saved, is she thereby deified? This is how Eastern Orthodox theologians describe Christian salvation, and it is a common saying that this is distinctive of Eastern Christian theology, but not of Western. In this episode, Dr. Carl Mosser (Associate Professor at Eastern University, on leave, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame) challenges this assumption,… Read More »podcast 59 – Dr. Carl Mosser on salvation as deification
J. Dan Gill: Must one believe in the Trinity and the two natures of Jesus to be saved?
In this interesting presentation called “Yet Another Music City Miracle” pastor J. Dan Gill points out that the way evangelicals evangelize is incompatible with the old catholic tradition, famously asserted in the “Athanasian” creed, Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith; Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish… Read More »J. Dan Gill: Must one believe in the Trinity and the two natures of Jesus to be saved?
podcast 55 – John Locke’s Second Vindication of his Reasonableness of Christianity
Locke fired back twice against Edwards’s criticisms of Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity.
podcast 54 – John Edwards vs. John Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity
John Edwards (1637-1726) was an Anglican Calvinist and would-be defender of Christian orthodoxy. Seemingly at the last minute, he tacked on to his Some Thoughts Concerning the Several Causes and Occasions of Atheism (1695) a critique of Locke’s Reasonableness. Guns blazing, he charged Locke (among other things) with promoting “Socinianism” (aka “Racovian” theology, i.e. the type of unitarian theology famously expounded by the Polish Brethren,… Read More »podcast 54 – John Edwards vs. John Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity