{"id":6142,"date":"2014-04-06T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6142"},"modified":"2014-04-06T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:49:11","slug":"ehrmans-misreading-of-john-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/ehrmans-misreading-of-john-1030\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehrman’s misreading of John 10:30"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cherry\"At Dustin Martyr<\/a>, theologian Dr. Dustin Smith gives a forceful critique<\/strong> of \u00a0Bart Ehrman’s appeal to\u00a0\u201cI and the Father are one\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(John 10:30) to show that the Gospel of John presents Jesus either as God<\/strong> himself, or as “equal to God” (where this doesn’t imply that he’s God himself).<\/p>\n

…this is disappointing… because even the most conservative scholars of Johannine literature don\u2019t interpret John 10:30 as if Jesus is claiming coequality with God. In fact, that particular argument has for a long time been dropped from christological arguments over the content of the Fourth Gospel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is Dr. Ehrman reading John more<\/em> traditionally than<\/strong> evangelicals and Catholics now do?<\/p>\n

Read the whole post here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Note that if Smith is right, then verse in question is neutral<\/strong> about whether or not Jesus “is God” in John. One has to read that book as a whole unit to grasp the author’s meaning.<\/p>\n

More How Jesus Became God<\/em> coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At Dustin Martyr, theologian Dr. Dustin Smith gives a forceful critique of \u00a0Bart Ehrman’s appeal to\u00a0\u201cI and the Father are one\u201d\u00a0(John 10:30) to show that the Gospel of John presents Jesus either as God himself, or as “equal to God” (where this doesn’t imply that he’s God himself). …this is disappointing… because even the most… Read More »Ehrman’s misreading of John 10:30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6156,"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":[37,21,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-complaints","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142","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=6142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}