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Clear searchWhy the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
Not Three Gods Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God The Trinity is often rejected before it is accurately defined. “The Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God,” the…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
What Really Happened at Nicaea? Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die The Council of Nicaea has become a screen upon which almost every conspiracy about early Christianity is projected. Constantine i…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…er than Himself? The question is often turned into a quick philosophical argument for the Trinity: love requires another person; God is love; therefore God must be more than one Person. That argument has intuitive force, but it claims more than it can prove by itself. A unitarian…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…o existence requires an explanation Isaiah does not supply. Isaiah has not yet taught the Trinity. He has established the identity that any later claim about God must respect. Glory that belongs to no rival “I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another,…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…later records Christ saying: “I and my Father are one.” — John 10:30 The doctrine of the Trinity does not arise because Christians wished to complicate a simple teaching. It arises because Scripture compels us to confess all three truths at once: the Father is God; the Son is pe…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…LORD and placed Jesus at its point of arrival. That is not yet a complete doctrine of the Trinity. It is something more basic and disruptive to the claim that Jesus is merely another prophet. The prophet prepares the way; Jesus comes as the Lord whose way is prepared. He forgives…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…t rapidly reached Britain. After Eleanor Mumford described her Toronto experience at Holy Trinity Brompton in May 1994, similar manifestations appeared there. Contemporary observers described people laughing or crying uncontrollably, trembling, falling, and roaring after prayer i…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…His eternal identity. Eternity and economy 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…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…ply be identified with Neoplatonism. Nevertheless, the Qur’an explicitly rejects both the Trinity and divine Sonship while presenting Jesus as a messenger of God (Qur’an 4:171). The comparison concerns a shared objection to the Christian confession, not a claim that the two syste…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…ty. We should speak with reverence here. The divine nature did not cease to live, and the Trinity was not broken. Yet neither should we make Christ’s death less real in order to protect His deity. The incarnate Son tasted death for every man (Hebrews 2:9). “Made like unto his bre…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…rapture never appears in the Bible. The observation is true but proves nothing. The word Trinity does not appear in the text either; the doctrine is named from the biblical facts it organises. Paul says that living believers "shall be caught up" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The Greek…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…ted? Did Jesus really claim to be God? Was He actually crucified? Has the doctrine of the Trinity compromised monotheism? Those questions deserve answers, and the preceding articles have supplied them. But Christianity is not the only faith carrying a burden of proof. Islam does…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…ns, and the word “God” used without qualification does not distinguish the Persons of the Trinity. Mother of Christ or Mother of the Son of God therefore expresses the truth more clearly, while God-bearer remains useful when explaining the historical controversy. Nestorius’s lang…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ecause she possesses authority. That is where the door closes for me. I could confess the Trinity, the incarnation, the atoning death and bodily resurrection of Christ, His ascension, His future return, the resurrection of humanity and final judgment. I could receive baptism and…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…they had left Christianity. The Bible had been changed. The Qur’an had never changed. The Trinity meant three gods. The Council of Nicaea invented the deity of Jesus. Nicaea, Calvinism and later denominational disputes might be confused with one another as though Christian histor…
Read article →Tertullian · Apologetic, doctrinal, and practical treatises · c. 197–220
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