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…es the Comforter Jesus does not leave His identity open: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26). The Comforter is the…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…often rejected before it is accurately defined. “The Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God,” the objection runs. “That makes three gods.” It would—if Christians believed the Father, Son, and Spirit were three separate divine beings. Historic Christianity denies…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…tingness of Trinitarian faith, but it should not be asked to identify the Father, Son and Holy Ghost independently of revelation. Scripture supplies the controlling evidence: Jesus says that the Father loved Him before the foundation of the world, while the wider biblical testimo…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz Matthew says that the conception of Jesus by the Holy Ghost fulfilled Isaiah's words: "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel." —Matthew 1:23 Critics often answer that Isaia…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ith the timing and directed them to their immediate worldwide mission in the power of the Holy Ghost. He did not say that there would be no restoration, that Israel now meant the Church, or that their expectation was based upon a false reading of the prophets. This does not make…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…l authority in heaven and earth belongs to Him. He places the Son with the Father and the Holy Ghost in the one baptismal name (Matthew 28:18-19). Thomas calls Him God, and Jesus accepts rather than corrects the confession. The worship of Jesus is not an accidental gesture in an…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…which preceded it. Christianity says that the one God eternally exists as Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Islam treats that confession as an assault upon divine unity. Christianity says that reconciliation rests upon Christ’s finished sacrifice. Islam calls people to submission, repe…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…eneral mercy and saving mercy need not be identical. Nor should a Christian object that a holy God must love wickedness or approve the unrepentant. Love which delights in cruelty would not be virtuous love. Moral opposition to corruption is not a defect in God. The real question…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ion made up of believing Jews and Gentiles. First Peter's description of believers as "an holy nation" may be brought alongside the passage (1 Peter 2:9). There is important truth in this reading. Jesus unquestionably establishes a messianic people which includes Gentiles, and th…
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