{"id":27112,"date":"2015-01-23T04:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=27112"},"modified":"2015-01-19T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T22:22:02","slug":"nasmith-theology-christology-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/nasmith-theology-christology-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasmith on the theology and christology of Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-27114\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem.jpg\" alt=\"Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem\" width=\"450\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem.jpg 685w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem-420x304.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem-460x332.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Preaching-in-Jerusalem-90x65.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>At his blog <a title=\"Ben Nasmith on God and Jesus in Acts\" href=\"https:\/\/bennasmith.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cognitive Resonance<\/a>, Ben Nasmith has some observations about the <strong>theology and christology of Acts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;according to Acts, <strong>the God of Israel<\/strong> is the one who raised Jesus from the dead and exalted him. As such, <strong>Jesus is not<\/strong> the God of Israel. He didn\u2019t raise and exalt himself. Rather, the God of Israel is the Father of Jesus. He is the God who \u201chas made [Jesus] both Lord and Messiah\u201d (Acts 2:36).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to observe that if Luke was right, then <strong>Marcion<\/strong> was wrong.\u00a0Also,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the theology of Acts closes the door on certain approaches to the Trinity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How?\u00a0<a title=\"Ben Nasmith on Jesus and God in Acts\" href=\"https:\/\/bennasmith.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/18\/jesus-and-his-father-in-acts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his blog Cognitive Resonance, Ben Nasmith has some observations about the theology and christology of Acts: &#8230;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\u2019t raise and exalt himself. Rather, the God of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/nasmith-theology-christology-acts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nasmith on the theology and christology of Acts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,8,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-christology","category-linkage","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27115,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions\/27115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}