podcast 126 – What is an evangelical? With Kermit Zarley
According to recent research, about 3 in 10 Americans are evangelical Christians. But what exactly is an evangelical?
According to recent research, about 3 in 10 Americans are evangelical Christians. But what exactly is an evangelical?
Not all engagement is good engagement.
“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.
A Wesleyan ministry tells new Christians about “The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith.”
In this episode we hear a voice from 1852 describing a lost species of American Christianity:
Let’s define “Jesus is God” to mean one or more of these: Jesus is numerically identical to the one God, YHWH, or Jesus fully possesses the divine nature of the one God, or Jesus is one “divine person” within the one God. The New Testament gospels are centrally concerned with Jesus, and with the one God. But how do they relate the two – or… Read More »Do the Gospels disagree about Jesus and God? Part 1 – Three Options
In round 1, Burke explains that he’s a biblical unitarian, not a “rationalist” or “universalist” unitarian. Further, he confesses that: Jesus Christ is the Son of God, but not God himself and The Holy Spirit is the power of God, but not God himself. Further, The Bible is the inspired Word of God and the sole authoritative source of Christian doctrine and practice. He neither… Read More »SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Burke 1
Some unitarian Christians believe that Jesus existed before he was a human, while others deny it.
The original meaning of John 1, disentangled from later speculations about Trinity and two natures christology.
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
What sort of book is the gospel according to Mark, and what does it really claim about Jesus?
In this guest post, our friend Mario Stratta expounds the prologue of the gospel according to John. – Dale I believe that the Prologue to John’s Gospel speaks about the Incarnation of God’s Word (Logos) in/as the “man called Jesus” (John 9:11). Where I disagree with the Trinitarians, Subordinationists and Arians, is that the Word had a personal subsistence (hypostasis), distinct from that of God,… Read More »The Incarnation of God’s Logos (John 1:1-18)
Is Jesus in Mark 14 claiming to be a divine Person within God?
At his blog our friend Kermit Zarley, aka the Moon Man, has an excellent post on Jesus and God in the gospel according to John. The One Who Sends Is Greater than the One Who Is Sent. In part, Most Christians think the primary message of the Gospel of John is that Jesus is God. I think that is a misunderstanding of this gospel and… Read More »The One Who Sends Is Greater than the One Who Is Sent
Does chapter one of the earliest gospel (Mark) portray Jesus as the God of Israel, as Yahweh himself? This is part of what Dr. Michael Bird argues in this second half of the debate.
A conversation about the New Testament on God, Jesus, and worship.
An interesting little exchange between Origen and the pagan critic Celsus about the god of Christians.