podcast 334 – “Who do you say I am?”
What would we expect to find in the New Testament writings if the authors thought Jesus was a man, a god, or a godman?
What would we expect to find in the New Testament writings if the authors thought Jesus was a man, a god, or a godman?
A thoughtful Baptist confronts his church about biblical vs. later teachings about God, Jesus, and heresy.
“Mary cradled the Creator in her arms. ‘I never imagined God would look like that,’ she says to herself.”
Dr. James White’s stated reasons for not debating me are based on misunderstanding.
A review of the most interesting trinities podcast episodes from 2021.
Is it the foundational commitment of biblical unitarians that Scripture must be inoffensive to human reason?
Apologist explains what any theist can, declares victory for his own pet theory.
Why he dismissed biblical unitarian theology and why he decided to give it another look.
In this post I venture to offer some debate advice: be very hesitant to accuse your opponent of a logical fallacy.
In round 4, Burke makes the 3rd error, Bowman the 4th.
Burke argues,
Even Acts 5, where the apostle Peter accuses Ananias of “lying to the Holy Spirit” (verse 3) and his wife of trying to “test the Spirit of the Lord” (verse 9) is not an open and shut case. The usual argument made from this passage is that Peter accuses Ananias of “lying to the Holy Spirit” and Sapphira of trying to “tempt the Holy Spirit”; but since an impersonal power cannot be lied to or tempted, the Holy Spirit must therefore be a person and therefore it follows that the Holy Spirit is God. The logic here is not terribly good, and the argument ends with a non sequitur.
Neither this nor what follows it make clear what Bowman’s errors in reasoning are supposed to be. What exactly is the argument he’s criticizing? Is it this?Read More »SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Round 4 Part 1
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:35:17 podcast 25 – Pastor Sean Finnegan on “the Holy Spirit” – Part 1 Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify In this episode Pastor Sean Finnegan and I discuss biblical spirit-talk: “the Holy Spirit,” “the Spirit of the LORD,” “God’s spirit,” “the Spirit of Christ,” etc. Sean helpfully distinguishes four types… Read More »podcast 25 – Pastor Sean Finnegan on “the Holy Spirit” – Part 1
Did Dr. Brown adequately rebut my argument from six NT facts?
Steve Hays provides a stellar example of how not to do apologetics.
Many who are often spun as “proto-trinitarian” thought the one true God is the Father alone.
Plausibly, most Protestant scholars who think that the Bible teaches the Trinity focus on the New Testament. They argue that while trinitarianism isn’t explicit there, it is implicit.
A blogger mocks the UCA as “the Unitarian Confusion Alliance.” But on what basis?
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:18:54 podcast 45 – Sir Anthony Buzzard on Christian mistakes Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify In this less biographical episode, Sir Anthony and I discuss various Christian mistakes: obsession with Hebrew names for God and for Jesus, keeping kosher food laws and Jewish holidays, the doctrine of tithing, and even the… Read More »podcast 45 – Sir Anthony Buzzard on Christian mistakes
“I believe in the divinity of Christ.” Perfect. Like a Rorschach test, people can read it however they want.
Here’s a very interesting interview with probably the greatest living Christian philosopher. Like many of my peers, I’m a big fan. Read the whole thing to see why I picked a teapot. Here are some relevant bits (with my own bolding): I take atheism to be the belief that there is no such person as the God of the theistic religions. The first being of… Read More »Parsing Plantinga: is there such a person as God?
Three World Vision employees are fired because according to World Vision they don’t believe in that Jesus is “fully God” or that he’s a member of the Trinity.
But inquiring minds want to know: what did they believe, what statement or statements of faith did they sign, and are the beliefs therein necessary and sufficient for being a real Christian? This time, we’re digging a little deeper.
Their website saith,
World Vision U.S. hires only those who agree and accept to its Statement of Faith and/or the Apostles’ Creed. (source)
Interesting! Note the “and/or” – employees must affirm either one or both. As we’ve noted before here at trinities, nothing in the so-called Apostles’ Creed requires belief in either the “full deity” of Christ (whatever that may mean) or any sort of trinitarian theory.Read More »No Trinity, No Job – Part 2