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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion. 5. CONCLUSION Stephen Neill is indeed correct in his summation, that “the Christian finds that he can never think of God without thinking of Jesus Christ, and that he can never think of Jesus Christ without thinking of God.”[1] In the NT, the faith [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion. 4. IN JESUS’ NAME: PRAYER TO AND WORSHIP OF JESUS AS GOD Aside from being portrayed as deity by his authority in his earthly ministry, and declared to be both “Lord” and “God” throughout the NT, Jesus is also strongly implied to be deity [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion. 3. JESUS AS KURIOS AND THEOS (cont’d) B. JESUS AS THEOS. Many of the passages which may speak of Jesus as θεός are heavily debated, and some with good reason. The ones which most certainly do refer to Jesus as θεός are John 1.1; [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion. 3. JESUS AS KURIOS AND THEOS A. JESUS AS KURIOS. It must be noted first that we are not primarily dealing with the gospels in this section, since “when people address Jesus as ‘Lord’ in the Gospels, this is often no more than a [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion. 2. A MAN WITH THE AUTHORITY OF GOD: JESUS’ DIVINITY IN THE GOSPELS Darrell Bock notes that whereas the number of times when Jesus is directly spoken of as “God” in the gospels is relatively small, it is “far more common” that Jesus, in [...]
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Conclusion. 1. INTRODUCTION The importance of recognizing that the New Testament identifies Jesus as deity, and yet as completely one with the Father, cannot possibly be over-stated. For the authors of the NT, this Christ himself became not only the interpretive grid, but also the [...]
Tertullian lived ca.150-ca.225 AD. He was born in Carthage, which is in North Africa (so he was probably a little darker than the picture would suggest). He was a man brilliantly gifted by God for writing. He wrote extensively on things like apologetics and ethics and often wrote polemically against the heretics of his day [...]
Rom 11.33-36Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and [...]
In the spirit of the Christmas, and in the footsteps of kerux’s post, I thought it might be nice to post a Christmas hymn I found in an old Presbyterian hymnal that I have not seen elsewhere. The words are written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413AD). You can ask Dr. Haykin who he is, because [...]
This is the easiest one yet in this series. Instead of writing my own thoughts, I want to redirect you to Darrin Brooker’s. In this post, he muses on the Trinity as he relates to ecumenism. Definitely worth a read. _uacct = “UA-1898297-1″; urchinTracker();
The Trinity is a hard concept to get your mind around. There’s no doubt about that. I’ve observed that one of the more difficult problems regarding the issue of the Trinity in the average Christian’s life is not that they don’t understand it, but that they see no practical use for it. “Why should I [...]
Dr. Michael Haykin was at our church on this Sunday evening, preaching on the Trinity. His text was Matthew 28.16-20 (esp. v.19). The message is a much needed one in today’s church where the Trinity is often assumed, seldom taught. One cannot wonder how long such an essential doctrine as this can go on not [...]
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