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Clear searchBorn, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
Was Christ Begotten at the Resurrection? Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son “This day have I begotten thee” appears to be applied to Christ’s resurrection.…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…us study, we considered Ambrose’s wonderfully direct answer to those who claimed that the Son had once not existed. John did not write, “In the beginning the Word came into being.” He wrote: “In the beginning was the Word.” — John 1:1 Ambrose pressed the force of that little word…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
Isaac, Not Ishmael The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ Did God choose Isaac or Ishmael? This is not a tribal debate. It is a covenant question. The answer does not require hostility towards Arabs, cont…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
Eternal Love Before Creation What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God Before there was a universe, what was there for God to love? There were no angels, no human beings and no created order. Nothing outside God existed. Yet Scripture does…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…s a driver enters a vehicle. God filled a human body as a hand fills a glove. Such comparisons are memorable. That is precisely why they require care. A theological statement may be qualified in the next sentence, but a picture can remain in the imagination long after its qualifi…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” — Colossians 2:9 A conversation with my son brought the strangeness of the incarnation freshly before me. Christians have heard the words so often that we can cease to feel their force. God became man. The Word was made flesh. The…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…l. Islam and Christianity both speak of divine mercy, forgiveness and love. A fair comparison cannot begin by pretending that the Qur'an presents Allah as merciless or that Muslims worship a deity who never loves. Nor can Christianity be reduced to the sentimental claim that God…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…t describe a magnificent creature authorised to represent God? Or does it reveal that the Son belongs within the identity of the one God, while remaining personally distinct from the Father? To answer responsibly, we must begin where the argument begins: with Isaiah. Throughout t…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…able. Later supersessionism therefore cannot be projected backwards as though it were the only possible meaning of apostolic Christianity. Its development must be explained historically. The second century sharpened the boundary By the middle of the second century, the circumstan…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…mos, meaning “same”, and ousia, meaning “being”, “essence” or “nature”. It means that the Son possesses the same divine nature as the Father. Older English translations often render it “of one substance” or “consubstantial”. It does not mean that the Father and Son are the same P…
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