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Clear searchBorn, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…cripture troubled me: “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.” — Psalm 2:7; Acts 13:33 Acts appeared to connect this “begetting” with Christ’s resurrection. That raised an obvious question. If Jesus was begotten when He rose from the dead, did He only then become the Son…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
“I Am the First, 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…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…tudy by Matthew R. Crawford draws attention to a remarkable historical example. (See Note 1.) In the third century, the Platonist philosopher Amelius read—or at least knew—a clear account of the opening of John’s Gospel. He recognised the eternal Word, the creation of all things…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…teaches from the language Christians gradually developed to defend it. Primary passages: John 1:1–3; John 5:17–23; John 8:54–59; John 17:5; Colossians 1:15–17; Hebrews 1:1–12; Isaiah 44:6, 24 --- In the previous study, we considered Ambrose’s wonderfully direct answer to those w…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…hat Christ do the teacher’s words actually teach the hearer to imagine? Primary passages: John 1:1–3, 14; Luke 2:40, 52; Matthew 26:38–39; Colossians 1:15–17; Philippians 2:5–8; Hebrews 1:1–3; 2:14–18 --- The incarnation is often explained through pictures. God put on humanity as…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…writings. Heracleon wrote what may be the earliest surviving commentary on the Gospel of John. The Tripartite Tractate presents an extensive Christian theological system rather than a crude rejection of everything recognisably Christian. That proximity made Valentinianism more d…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…e Christian confession of His deity is treated as a corruption of true monotheism (Surahs 3:45-49; 4:171; 5:72-75; 19:30-36). That is the strongest recognisable form of the Islamic claim. It does not deny that Jesus is remarkable. It denies that anything He says or does removes H…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…doctrine, one would need evidence that Christians did not worship Christ as God before AD 325, that Constantine supplied the council's theology, that the bishops merely submitted to a view foreign to them, or that the decision depended upon a narrow imperial tie-break. The source…
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