Continued from Part 22 In a study made by Philip B. Harner, an examination was conducted of clauses in which an anarthrous predicate noun preced...
Continued from Part 25 PART 3: THE PROBLEM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT The impersonal nature of holy spirit The spirit of God is not a being with its own ...
Continued from Part 23 The trinitarian argument that the second theos in John 1:1 does not require the article to be considered definite can only ...
Continued from Part 34 Is the Trinity Doctrine a New Testament teaching? Paul, speaking of Jesus says, “for in him all the fullness of deity dw...
Continued from Part 28 Eusebius, who supported the orthodox trinitarian position, was present at the Council of Nicaea and was involved in the d...
Continued from Part 31 Pneuma, “spirit” and parakletos, “helper” The Greek word for spirit (pneuma) has many different meanings, the correct on...
Continued from Part 26 Establishing paternity In Matthew’s version of the alleged conception of Jesus story (Matthew 1:18) it states that Mary ...
Continued from Part 27 The baptism formula Some Christian commentators allege that the command by Matthew’s Jesus to, “Go therefore, and make d...
Continued from Part 19 A debt to Philo God, according to Philo, is an incorporeal, indefinable, absolute Being without any knowable attributes ...
Continued from Part 20 John 1:1 It is in John 1:1 that the nature of the Logos (the Word) is explicitly stated. The first verse of John, as tra...
Continued from Part 21 C. Colwell offers a grammatical rule explaining the use of the article with a predicate nominative in the Greek New Testame...
Continued from Part 17 Revelation 1:17 and 2:8 do not contain the words the Alpha and the Omega. In these verses the author of Revelation uses p...
Continued from Part 18 In Revelation, the title the Alpha and the Omega is applied in different verses to refer to either God or Jesus in their ...
Continued from Part 14 Subordination and subjection Wherever the relationship of Jesus to God is treated in the New Testament, Jesus is always rep...
Continued from Part 15 The New Testament Jesus: A distinct supernatural agent Despite the distinctiveness with which God and Jesus are regarded...
Continued from Part 13 Syncretic roots of Paul’s Jesus Much of Christianity is the development of Paul and his theological descendants, who pre...
Continued from Part 16 The Alpha and the Omega In the Book of Revelation we find the verse, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,7 says the Lord God, who...
Continued from Part 12 The author of John expounds the belief that Jesus had a prehuman existence as the Word who was “in the beginning with God...
Continued from Part 11 Nevertheless, Barnes believes that Jesus is himself the uncreated and eternal Creator. However, he does not base his beli...
Continued from Part 8 Paul’s Jesus: A savior but not God The New Testament authors make a definite distinction between the one-and-only God a...
Continued from Part 9 “I am” John’s Jesus states: “‘Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.’ The Jews therefore s...
Continued from Part 10 Jesus as an instrument of the Creator Even the authors of John, Colossians, and Hebrews, who elevate Jesus to a point wh...
Continued from Part 7 God: undivided and without equal How did John’s Jesus view the possibility of a division in the divine essence? Chapter 17 o...
Continued from Part 6 John’s Jesus states: “Even in your Law it has been written, that the testimony of two men is true [i.e., valid or admissib...
Paul states “that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:11). Some Trinitarian Christians allege this shows that Paul...
Continued from Part 2 Similarly, when asked if he would “at this time” restore the kingdom of Israel (Acts 1:6) Jesus replied: “It is not for yo...
PART 2: THE PROBLEM OF THE SON The Master and the servant There are many New Testament passages that refute the Christian doctrine of the Trini...
PART 1: INTRODUCING THE PROBLEM The notion of a triune deity In trinitarian Christian belief there are three conscious personalities existing i...
John quotes Jesus as saying: “I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am” (John 14:28). Is this coequality within the Trinit...
Jesus, the man, is said to be the mediator between God and men. Paul writes, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the ...