Reading Time: 6 minutes Jesus Christ – who was he? That’s something of a different question to skeptics like myself as it is to Christians. And it’s a very different question in the context of the New Testament writers. What did Paul think Jesus was, as opposed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God is a brilliant book. Part […]
Holy Trinity
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The Resurrection Belief Supervening on the Holy Trinity Belief
Reading Time: 4 minutes As most of you already know, I am writing a book on the Resurrection of Jesus, looking critically at the historical and theological claims involved. I wrote this aside section to highlight that without a coherent or working understanding of the Holy Trinity, the belief in a (Trinitarian) resurrection is somewhat even more problematic. Here […]
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Trinity in the Spotlight: The Son of God, Begotten, Not Made.
Reading Time: 10 minutes At the heart of the Nicene Creed are these words: “And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father … .” As this […]
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Divine Simplicity and a Trinitarian God
Reading Time: 11 minutes In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts. The general idea of divine simplicity can be stated in this way: the being of God is identical to the “attributes” of God. In other words, such characteristics as omnipresence, goodness, truth, eternity, etc. are identical to God’s being, not qualities that make up that being, nor abstract […]
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Religious People Are Split on the Theological Usefulness of Fidget Spinners
Reading Time: 2 minutes Religious people are finally weighing in on the fidget spinner phenomenon — and I’m surprised to hear they’re not all calling it a tool of a the Devil.
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The Holy Trinity Is Incoherent #2 – Penal Substitution Theory
Reading Time: 5 minutes The other day, I wrote a piece on the general incoherence of the Holy Trinity from a logical and philosophical point of view, taking into account existence properties and the like. Some years back, on this topic when posting my original pieces, I even got to slugging it out with Andy Schueler against some Catholics […]
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The Holy Trinity Is Incoherent #1
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Holy Trinity has had a problematic history, partly evidenced by point of fact that theologians still don’t agree on how it works, and partly seen from its ex post facto evolution, shoehorned into the scant evidence of the biblical texts. From Ignatius of Antioch onwards we see development of the idea in early church […]
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God lied or knowingly deceived
Reading Time: < 1 minute Another little piece from my friend Julian Haydon. This one succinctly documents the issue that God seems to have entirely changed his revelation and theological scenario, if you will, from the OT to the NT. The same can be said for the soul, heaven and hell: GOD LIED OR KNOWINGLY DECEIVED WHICH IS THE SAME […]
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The Holy Trinity as Incoherent #2 – Penal Substitution Theory
Reading Time: 5 minutes Some weeks back I wrote a piece on the general incoherence of the Holy Trinity from a logical and philosophical point of view, taking into account existence properties and the like. In this post I want to return to the subject, though to look at it from a theological perspective.
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Slugging out the incoherence of the Trinity
Reading Time: < 1 minute Gah! I posted my Trinity piece with some alterations on John Loftus’ Debunking Christianity where I used to be a more full-time contributor. It was picked up by some Catholic chap who tried to critique it, except that he really didn’t deal with the substantive points.