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. …
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Deity of Christ
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 …
Argument for the Trinity #8: How the Old Testament Prepared God’s People for the Trinity - Section 1: Plurality in One God
I have alluded to two-powers theology several times, and addressed this issue in some detail in my previous series, but I wanted to take some time to cover it in some more detail here. While the New Testament contains …
Argument for the Trinity #6: The Deity of the Persons - Section 3: More of the Son
Jesus is Creator Jesus does the other works of God Jesus is worshiped/honored like God Let’s look at a few more lines of evidence for the deity of Christ. Jesus is Creator There is a reason that the first major …
Argument for the Trinity #5: The Deity of the Persons - Section 2: The Son
One of the most enlightening things you can study is the diversity of ways in which the Scriptures attest to the identity and nature of Christ, and this includes His deity. There are literally multiple ways in which …
Argument for the Trinity #1: Yahweh is Unique
As stated in the introduction post, this series will build the case for the Trinity by establishing each of its biblically definitive statements, one by one. So, of course, no one article in this series establishes the …
The Arguments for the Trinity
I’m starting a new series today, as a sort of flip-side to the series on answering Unitarian arguments. In this series, I will be presenting what I take to be the best arguments for the Trinity and its supporting …
Answering Unitarian Arguments #4: Argument from Scriptures that Describe Jesus as a Distinct Person or as a Human Being
Whereas the previous article addressed what I take to be the primary motivator for Unitarianism, I believe this article addresses the argument that the most prevalent. The fundamental argument is that Jesus is different …
Answering Unitarian Arguments #1: The Argument from Logic
Today, I am going to start a series on Unitarian Arguments against the Trinity. Now, I could definitely make this a very long series if I were to examine every individual argument they employ, but, as we will see, many …