podcast 195 – Dr. Randal Rauser on What’s So Confusing About Grace
What must I do, or what must I believe, to be saved?
What must I do, or what must I believe, to be saved?
Many Christians in the 2nd to the 4th centuries, and many since, have read the famous opening of the gospel according to John like this: In the beginning [i.e. at the Genesis creation, but not necessarily before] was the Word [i.e. the pre-human Jesus], and the Word was with God [i.e. the Father], and the Word was divine.
Is “the doctrine of the Trinity” essential to salvation? To Christianity?
Does the famous “Great Commission” passage at the end of Matthew teach that the one God is a Trinity?
His views seem to have been those of present-day biblical unitarians.
Who needs the Bible when you can gesture at some philosophical speculations?
“For the New Testament, as for the Hebrew Bible, the principle of unity is clearly the one God…”
“It’s stunning; there is nothing in the Bible that says Jesus had faith.”
“I had come to this belief truly just through studying the Word.”
Is it the foundational commitment of biblical unitarians that Scripture must be inoffensive to human reason?
Adventures in theologically-motivated misinterpretation.
Do you think that you preexisted your conception? Me neither. True, there are cultures which presuppose this. But most of the human race, including ancient Jews, assumes that getting parented involves getting brought into existence some time between the sexual union and birth. You, the younger human being, exist because of what your parents did. This, I suggest, is the default human assumption. You exist because of them. Abe and Sarah… Read More »Buzzard’s textual arguments against Jesus’ pre-human existence – Part 3
Can someone with two natures be essentially immortal and die?
Did God punish Jesus on the cross with the punishment due us all?
“For all its complexity, the biblical doctrine of the Trinity can be stated in seven simple propositions.”
A thoughtful Baptist confronts his church about biblical vs. later teachings about God, Jesus, and heresy.
How widely has God’s spirit been active in the world?
The Father ain’t the Trinity. So, God can’t be both.