podcast 100 – Dr. Larry Hurtado on God in New Testament Theology
Dr. Hurtado on his book God in New Testament Theology.
Dr. Hurtado on his book God in New Testament Theology.
The key to understanding the innovative New Testament usage of “Lord” is the much cited Psalm 110:1.
“…earliest believers treated the risen/exalted Jesus as they did only because they felt required to do so by God.”
If the earliest Christians’ answer (re: how one can be a monotheist and yet worship both the one God and Jesus) was a good answer then, why isn’t it a good answer now?
He argues cogently that even in the earliest parts of the New Testament, the religious worship of Jesus is presupposed, such as in Philippians 2.
Notice how this scholar avoids what I call the fulfillment fallacy.
Can a Christian sensibly say that Jesus is the Father incarnate?
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus…”
Want to debate (or just refute) me? Here are some things you should study.
Reading the gospel of John in its first-century context is eye-opening!
Biblical unitarianism vs. what Dale calls one-self trinitarianism.
…let me comment on your later post where you explained, on a biblical level, what pointed you to converting to Orthodoxy…
Some friendly disagreements about the prodigal son, women in Luke, and the deity of Christ in Luke.
Is the “extra Calvinisticum” both biblical and theologically helpful?
When a NT author claims that Jesus fulfills an OT text which is about God, is that his way of saying that Jesus is God?
Is the New Testament position that Christians should only worship God himself?
Can these obvious truths pop the bubbles of various theological and christological speculations?
More lessons on how not to do apologetics, from a Master.