But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appeareth? for He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap – Malachi 3:2
Let’s end this series with a few verses from the book of John. The fortunate advantage of the deity of Christ proponents is the book of John. It is the book in the NT with the most textual witnesses, and the oldest manuscripts we have come from John’s gospel (truly). It’s, as if, John had …
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Before we present our arguments on Christ. We need to give you a pair of ontology glasses to watch the argumentation carefully. Generally, we take words for granted and at face value. Which we need to resolve in order for you to interpretation errors that have given us our current theological woes in this doctrine. …
Continue reading “THE GODHEAD PT. 6: The Deity of Christ – Unlocking the Ontological Biases”
The Father enjoys the bulk of the clear revelation of the Scriptures. As such the Father’s deity is never really questioned. I suppose this is a good thing. As far as our sin-touched eyes can see, such lack of investigation into the Father’s deity, though respectable, does have a disadvantage. It gives us a limping …
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The previous article sets up the understanding that spirits are conscious intangible beings. We have seen what the people alive at the time of Jesus understood spirits or ghosts to be. We didn’t give what we believed the word spirit/ghost means from the lexicon on some random verse. We let the text finger the nature …
Continue reading “THE GODHEAD PT 4: On the Deity of the Holy Spirit – Consolidation of Position”
Many people believe that the deity of the Holy Spirit is the biggest sticking point to the Godhead debate. Not Historically. The deity of Christ is the oldest point of contention in the Godhead debate. So one can imagine how excited we are in publishing an article on ‘The deity of Christ’ (so excited!). However, …
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Everything God created has nature/essence. Your nature determines who you are. In the previous article, we introduced this concept from the Creation account (Gen 1). We seek to build on this concept in this article. Now think with me, this applies to all that exists (not only created beings but God also), and therefore God …
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Who would have thought that we would still be discussing the Doctrine of God in 2019? Surely Tertullian or even Athanasius never thought we would still be discussing this doctrine almost two millennia later, but here we are, as polarized as then. Perhaps I should disclose to the reader and not pretend to be neutral. …
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