podcast 299 – Does the New Testament teach Trinity Monotheism? – with Dale Glover – Part 1
A conversation about whether or not the New Testament teaches “Trinity Monotheism.”
A conversation about whether or not the New Testament teaches “Trinity Monotheism.”
What should we think of Athanasius’s ferocious condemnations of those he termed “Arians”?
What is “classical” theism, and why is it controversial?
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you… Read More »Merry Christmas!
Why we don’t accept this sort of interpretation.
“The Lord” is ambiguous in the NT, though not in the OT.
Dear Christian, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about God and me.
Locke fired back twice against Edwards’s criticisms of Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity.
In the New Testament, is the Father God himself, or does the Father rather represent the one God?
He assumes that necessarily, any human, as such, is subject to God.
Does the Gospel According to Mark contain as hidden messages the deity of Christ and the Trinity?
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What if you believe in Christianity, and it’s false? Have you lost much, really?
Some unitarian Christians believe that Jesus existed before he was a human, while others deny it.
“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.
Following an ancient tradition of mocking modalists as “patripassians”, she seems to think the biggest or the main problem with modalism is that it identifies the Father and the Son. (pp. 1, 3) On her modalist theory, they are temporal parts (person-stages) of one being, but they are not numerically identical – they are different temporal parts of God. As she observes, on this theory, “There is… no time at while f=s.” (p. 3) Thus, her theory doesn’t identify any of the persons with one another, or with God for that matter.
Many metaphysicians, she knows, reject the theory of temporal parts, and the perdurance theory of how a thing can “last” through time.
But moving on, is this theory monotheistic? She urges,
All we need to capture the spirit of monotheism is the doctrine that at any time there is exactly one God. (3)
Huh? She draws an analogy with US Presidents; at any given time, there’s one one.
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Can a historian conclude that Jesus thought he was God?