Bock and Loke on Jesus’s “blasphemy” in Mark 14 – Part 1
Is Jesus in Mark 14 claiming to be a divine Person within God?
Is Jesus in Mark 14 claiming to be a divine Person within God?
In the New Testament, is the Father God himself, or does the Father rather represent the one God?
Could each divine “Person” of the Trinity be either an attribute of God or God together with an attribute?
Is it a sin to celebrate Christmas, because Christmas is pagan in origin? In this episode I discuss this disputed question, and what I believe the apostle Paul would have to say about this ongoing dispute between Christians.
Live-streamed discussions with Josiah of Integrity Syndicate on two famously difficult New Testament texts.
What the priest was thinking in charging Jesus with “blasphemy.”
Does Dr. Craig’s “Neo-Apollinarian” theory about Christ show how one person can be both divine and human?
Does the Bible ever speak of redeemed humans as “gods”? Many Jews and Christians have thought so. In this episode Dr. Carl Mosser takes us on a journey through this theme in the Bible, including Psalm 82, the New Testament epistles, and the book of Genesis. You’ll have listen to see why I chose a picture of Joseph in his career as the Pharaoh’s right… Read More »podcast 60 – Dr. Carl Mosser on deification in the Bible
Mr. Kermit Zarley is a retired professional golfer and Christian author, having written books on christology and eschatology. In this episode he describes being born again as a teen, his evangelical identity, and his discovery that in the New Testament, Jesus and God are two, namely the human Son of God (Jesus) and the one true God, Yahweh (aka the Father).
In this second conversation, Mr. Kermit Zarley and I discuss a number of themes from his book The Restitution of Jesus Christ, including
the evangelical tradition of saying that “Jesus is God” or “Jesus is divine,” the biblical phrases “Son of God” and “the Son of God,” the texts commonly read as teaching that Jesus existed before his conception in Mary.
A very revealing collection of mid-third-century theological arguments.
Some critical thinking about Craig’s Trinity theories: his Trinity monotheism and his minimal tripersonal monotheism.
Does the New Testament teach that Jesus’ exaltation changed him from human to divine?
When a Christian is saved, is she thereby deified? This is how Eastern Orthodox theologians describe Christian salvation, and it is a common saying that this is distinctive of Eastern Christian theology, but not of Western. In this episode, Dr. Carl Mosser (Associate Professor at Eastern University, on leave, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame) challenges this assumption,… Read More »podcast 59 – Dr. Carl Mosser on salvation as deification
Sacrifice to the gods, or die. What would you do?
Dr. Ravi Zacharias is a popular, Indian-born, evangelical apologist, the author of many books and articles, a frequent public speaker, and a veteran of Christian radio. Recently here at the trinities blog I received a reader question about an answer Dr. Zacharias gave about the Trinity in a recent public talk. In this episode, I review and critically examine that answer, and a few other of his… Read More »podcast 51 – Dr. Ravi Zacharias on the Trinity
Is the question absurd? Or does it make sense in light of New Testament teachings?
Is there a plausible and biblical “doctrine of the Trinity”?