podcast 307 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 3
Dr. Michael Bird argues that in Mark, Jesus is “included in the identity” of God.
podcast 306 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 2
Does the Gospel According to Mark contain as hidden messages the deity of Christ and the Trinity?
podcast 305 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 1
What sort of book is the gospel according to Mark, and what does it really claim about Jesus?
podcast 304 – The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith
A Wesleyan ministry tells new Christians about “The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith.”
podcast 303 – Rauser’s review of Is Jesus Human and not Divine?
I answer some questions and ask some, in response to this well done book review.
podcast 302 – The Stages of Trinitarian Commitment
I have gone through all six. Which stage are you at, and what is keeping you from moving to the next?
Did Jesus have faith in God?
“It’s stunning; there is nothing in the Bible that says Jesus had faith.”
the Son ain’t the Father, so the Son ain’t God
Why it is just as obviously a confusion to run together Jesus and God as it is to run together Jesus and the Father.
“Well OF COURSE they distinguish the Son from the Father!”
How Trinity theories cause a “blind spot” when reading the New Testament.
Dr. Larry Hurtado: don’t confuse Jesus with God
Dr. Hurtado calls out a common confusion which many historical trinitarian sources do not contain.
George Orwell on Positive Mysteries
‘How can I help it?’ he blubbered. ‘How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.’
Evolution of the Trinity – with Bill Schlegel
A narrative of the series of early speculations that eventually led to the idea of the Trinity as the one God.
podcast 301 – Dr. Daniel Boyarin on John 1
According to Dr. Boyarin, most 1st c. non-Christian Jews could accept John 1:1-13.
podcast 300 – Does the New Testament teach Trinity Monotheism? – with Dale Glover – Part 2
Is God’s spirit in the New Testament supposed to be a self in addition to God and his Son?
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.”
Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?
In this book, I argue that all reference is story-relative. We cannot understand reference to God, nor to his prophets, nor to any other character mentioned in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures, without reference to those very scriptures.
podcast 298 – Andrews Norton on John 1
A penetrating discussion of John 1 by famous Harvard scholar Andrews Norton.