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Clear searchOrigen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
Does Eternal Mean Divine? Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation Why this is useful to know: On your walk through life, you will encounter challenges to the deity of Christ from television shows and documentaries, Muslims, Latter-day…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…and I Am the Last” Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ If YHWH alone is Creator, Saviour and Lord of all, what are the New Testament writers saying when they place Jesus within that identity? Isaiah does not leave Israel searching for a greater God behind the Go…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…ready fallen. Matter exists because God willed it. Embodiment is not inherently evil. The Creator looked upon the material world He had made and pronounced it “very good” (Genesis 1:31). The incarnation goes immeasurably beyond creation, but it does not establish the first contac…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…re can affirm a populated spiritual world without surrendering the unique identity of its Creator. Psalm 82 depicts Elohim judging among the elohim. The same word functions differently within a single verse because the presiding God and the beings judged by Him do not belong to t…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…“begotten, not made” and “of one substance with the Father” placed Him decisively on the Creator’s side of the Creator–creature distinction. But saying who the Son eternally is in relation to the Father did not by itself explain everything involved in His becoming man. How much…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…can be lost, generations can pass, and the political situation can appear impossible. The Creator's ability and oath remain unchanged. The promised restoration is certain because the One who appointed day and night has spoken it. Christ confirms rather than dissolves the promises…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ance, deficiency, or hostile rule. Some systems sharply opposed the unknown Father to the Creator portrayed in the Old Testament; others developed subtler accounts of a lower creator who acted without comprehending the fullness above him. Third, humanity was interpreted through a…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…in context, it establishes the opposite. Tertullian is answering Marcion's claim that the Creator's Christ promised the Jews restoration to their country. After voicing that position, Tertullian says that the restoration of Judaea should be understood figuratively and applied spi…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…ing and dying, so His humanity is real. Yet they also place Him on the divine side of the Creator-creature distinction. He performs the works of God, bears the authority of God, receives the honour of God, shares the glory of God and occupies the heavenly throne. The Christian ex…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…9). Jesus is not the Father. He is nevertheless everything a creature cannot be: eternal, Creator, worthy of divine honour, and fully God. The Holy Spirit is personal and divine The Holy Spirit is not merely an impersonal force. He speaks and sends (Acts 13:2–4), distributes gift…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…be truly spoken of the one Person whose nature it is. The baby lying in the manger is the Creator, although creation does not belong to His infancy. The man who thirsted beside the well is the giver of living water. The one whose hands were nailed to the cross is the Lord of glor…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…apparition or a spiritual myth. I love their insistence that the God of the gospel is the Creator of heaven and earth, that the body is not evil, that Jesus Christ truly suffered in the flesh, and that He rose bodily from the grave. I value ordered worship, accountable leadership…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…ership of creation or our accountability for its use. If those who do not acknowledge the Creator sometimes show greater care for His handiwork than those who confess His name, their theological error does not excuse our neglect. It exposes it. Scripture does not require us to ch…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…vid. The certainty of restoration rests not upon Israel's political strength but upon the Creator's faithfulness. Ezekiel sees a nation brought back to life Ezekiel's vision of dry bones is sometimes applied generally to spiritual revival. The prophet himself identifies the bones…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…the Son of God has done something more beautiful than the philosopher could imagine. The Creator came among His creatures Amelius was a disciple of Plotinus, the most influential thinker of what is now called Neoplatonism. Its many forms should not be flattened into a single cru…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…was in the beginning, and “all things” that were made through Him. Christ belongs on the Creator’s side of that distinction. If every created thing was made by Him, He cannot Himself be one of the things made. Paul says the same: “For by him were all things created, that are in…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…d Christian proclamation through the categories available to them. Paul then declared the Creator, His relationship to humanity, the folly of idolatry, and the coming judgment, before grounding his appeal in the resurrection of Jesus. He did not assume that saying God had already…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…is a piece cut out of God. It answers one particular question: does the Son belong on the Creator's side of reality or the creature's side? Nicaea answered that He is truly God, not the highest item within creation. But the conclusion does not follow from those facts. To establis…
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