podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation
Do the NT authors assume that God is the Trinity, or the Father… or are they confused?
Do the NT authors assume that God is the Trinity, or the Father… or are they confused?
“What bothers me most is the rhetorical move you’re making with this claim that everyone before Nicea (or so) was a ‘Unitarian.'”
Is “the doctrine of the Trinity” essential to salvation? To Christianity?
Can one prove that the biblical Jesus is Yahweh based on his being savior or creator, or his being worshiped?
To follow up on Kruger vs. McGrath: in light of what Mark either explicitly says or clearly implies, Dr. McGrath is correct. Not only does Mark not teach that Jesus is God himself, but he plainly implies that Jesus is not God himself. For Mark, God is someone else, the one who sent, empowered, worked through, raised, and exalted Jesus. Jesus is the human Messiah, the unique Son of God,… Read More »Mark: Jesus is God’s Son, the Messiah
Jesus is God, and God can’t be tempted… yet Jesus was tempted?
The terms “atheism,” “monotheism,” and “polytheism” seem straightforward enough… BUT important ambiguity lurks in the root term “theism.”
I argue that the theoretical costs of Bauckham’s theory outweigh its theoretical benefits.
An appealing theological option which is neither Nicene nor “Arian”?
Does the Bible say in the fourteenth Psalm that atheists are fools? And what about Paul’s critiques of the Gentiles in Romans and Ephesians – do these teach that atheism is caused, in all cases, by willful rejection of God, preferring sin to acknowledging him?
Happy Easter. For the uninitiated, this holiday really has nothing to do with a bunny and colored eggs. What we’re celebrating is this: Saturday evening, when the Sabbath ended, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome went out and purchased burial spices so they could anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on Sunday morning, just at sunrise, they went to the tomb. On the… Read More »He is Risen!
Why “that’s just Philosophy” is no excuse for a failure of basic critical thinking.
The scene, an American evangelical church, around Christmas time. The pastor prays, Heavenly Father, than you so much for sending us your Son! We’re so grateful for your perfect of gift of forgiveness, of eternal life. Help us, this season, to remember the reason for it. God, thank you for coming to be born, to die for us. In your name we pray, amen. At… Read More »a present you should return: Christmas confusion
Do Matthew, Mark, and Luke discreetly but clearly imply that Jesus is God?
I thank Fr. Aiden Kimel for reminding me of Richard Bauckham’s chapter on kinds of monotheism. I read it years ago, and thought there was something that was not quite right about it. Kimel says, summarizing Bauckham, Inclusive monotheism declares the God is the highest being within the class of deities to which he belongs. “He is unique,” Bauckham explains, “only in the sense of… Read More »Kimel and Bauckham on monotheism
What the priest was thinking in charging Jesus with “blasphemy.”
A conversation about whether or not the New Testament teaches “Trinity Monotheism.”
At his blog Faith & Scripture, my friend John interacts with the questions for the reader in chapter 10.