What Did Jesus Create?
The New Testament contains many references to Jesus as Creator, which I’ve gone over briefly here. These passages have been a major line of evidence appealed to by Trinitarians to show that Jesus is God. After all, only …
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Apologetics
Scriptural Problems Versus Philosophical Problems
In theological debate, you can categorize arguments, generally, into those that are Scriptural in nature and those that are philosophical in nature. When I say “in nature”, I’m referring to the basis of the argument, …
What Motivates the Argument?
Motivation is a funny thing in debates and arguments. In some cases, it is the only thing on the minds of the people in discussion, so that the actual arguments never get addressed head-on. I’m sure you’ve read news …
My Conversion from Unitarianism to the Trinity
Not that my testimony proves anything, but I share it here to dispel the idea that seems to be common among Unitarians, that Trinitarians are just slaves to tradition, that if you just show the truth to all these …
Letting the Context Drive your Interpretation
My last post before this blog took about an 8-year break was about interpretation, or, to use the smart-sounding word, hermeneutics. It was inspired by some conversations with Jehovah’s witnesses and dealing with …
100 Scriptural Arguments for the Trinity
Recently, I posted an article refuting the “100 Scriptural Arguments” for Unitarianism, that can be found at John Schoenheit’s website on the topic. Here, I’m going to be typing up an article with positive, Scriptural …
100 Scriptural Arguments for Unitarianism Refuted
At John Schoenheit’s website, Biblical Unitarian, there is an article, promoted prominently, titled “100 Scriptural Arguments”. This is not something written by Schoenheit or anyone at Spirit and Truth Fellowship, but is …
Dale Tuggy Responds
In a podcast on 2/19/18, Dale Tuggy responded my response to his challenge to “Jesus is God” apologists. Today, I will be reviewing this response to see how it does. You can read my full response in the previous article. …
Argument for the Trinity #12: The Proper Understanding Defense
Misrepresentation of an opposing position is common. Often, it is just easier to paint a simplistic picture of what you oppose and attack that, but it doesn’t actually mean anything in the long run. If we consider …
Argument for the Trinity #11: How the Old Testament Prepared God’s People for the Trinity - Section 4: The Angel of Yahweh
If you are like me, then the information presented so far about the plurality in God found in the Hebrew Scriptures was probably new. I’ve done a lot of reading on the Trinity, but had not come across the preceding …
Argument for the Trinity #10: How the Old Testament Prepared God’s People for the Trinity - Section 3: The Name of Yahweh
God has a name. It is Yahweh. As we saw when addressing truly biblical monotheism, while many could be called “god” in some sense, there is only one Yahweh. There is a phrase, found many times throughout the …
Argument for the Trinity #9: How the Old Testament Prepared God’s People for the Trinity - Section 2: The Word of Yahweh
As modern people, when we read the Scriptures, it is easy to miss things that were more obvious to the original readers, since the Scriptures were written to them within their culture and mindset. So, when we read a …