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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 →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
WHAT DID THEY REJECT? The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit We sometimes describe an evangelistic conversation in a single sentence: “I explained the gospel, and he rejected it.” That may be an accurate description. Scripture certainly sp…
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 →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…. The promised Comforter The promise of peace cannot be separated from the promise of the Holy Spirit. Immediately before speaking of peace, Jesus said: "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…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…ticle does not require us to settle that debate. Nor should we imagine the soul as a tiny ghost located somewhere inside the body. Here, human soul means Christ’s created and genuinely human inward life: the human capacities by which He thought, learned, felt, desired, chose and…
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 →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…te: “For God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” —1 Peter 5:5 After the Holy Ghost came at Pentecost, Peter publicly proclaimed the Christ whom he had once denied. The frightened disciple became a courageous witness. He did not become useful because his failure…
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 →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…not originate His divine nature and cannot be described as mother of the Father or of the Holy Ghost. His opponents, especially Cyril of Alexandria, feared that Nestorius’s manner of speaking divided Christ into two personal subjects. Their use of the Greek word Theotokos, litera…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…eased from the body, leaving the physical world behind and becoming something more like a ghost than a human being. Christians do have a real hope beyond death before the resurrection. Paul desired to depart and be with Christ, which he said was "far better" (Philippians 1:23). T…
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 →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…In Christian theology, the eternal or immanent Trinity refers to who the Father, Son and Holy Spirit eternally are in God’s own being. The economy of salvation refers to how the three divine persons act toward creation and within history to accomplish redemption. The distinction…
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…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…ted into a Trinity, placing in their order the three Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: three, however, not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form … yet of one substance.” —Tertullian, Against Praxeas, 2 Tertullian's old translation is dense, but…
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