Why Calvinists And Catholics Share The Nicene Faith
The Nicene Creed has defined historical orthodoxy for centuries. It is broad enough to include Calvinists and Roman Catholics. Despite all of our differences and even some anathemas, we can…
Category: Trinitarian Apologetics
Why Christians Should Empty Themselves of Kenotic Christology
God became a man. As we read through the New Testament, we will encounter what boggled even the mind of Paul the apostle. He wrote in 1st Timothy 3:16 of…
Assessing The Firepower of The Reformed Arsenal: In Defense of William Lane Craig
There is a tendency amongst Reformed theologians to police other theologians, to dub themselves as detectives for Christ, seemingly exposing Christians who hold different views. They will often use pious…
Saving Christmas From Christological Contradictions
Thieves love Christmas. We sometimes hear stories about a green man who lives in the mountains and steals all of the Christmas presents just to take all of the joy…
Is The Oneness Versus Trinity Debate Theological Nitpicking?
Followers of this blog will know that I have spent a lot of time writing about Oneness Pentecostalism, because, as I pointed out in my article My Conversion From Oneness…
My Conversion From Oneness Pentecostalism To Biblical Christianity
Recently, I have been publishing articles and podcasts about the topic of Oneness Pentecostalism. In fact, it is one of my favorite topics, even if speaking only as a theological…
Does The Old Testament Favor Oneness Pentecostalism?
We start with the Old Testament and read the New Testament in light of that. That is what we often hear from Oneness Pentecostals who are attempting to mount an…
Answering A Few Common Oneness Pentecostal Arguments
Oneness Pentecostals are vehement anti-trinitarians who commonly maintain that the doctrine of the trinity states that there are three gods. Of course, this is a mischaracterization. If an individual believes…
Christians Need The Trinity
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? I am not aware of any theologian who has investigated this matter, and unless there is some discourse in…
Does John 17 Teach Oneness Or Trinity?
The gospel of John is the most significant and often criticized biography of the historical Jesus. It receives vociferous attacks from the unbelieving community as well as revisions and reinterpretations…
What Is Wrong With The Oneness View Of God?
Who is God? What can we know about the nature of God? Christians have classically said that there is only one God who is eternally present in three persons. However,…
Was There A Time When The Son Was Not?
Was there a time when the Son was not? This is the view was represented at the Council of Nicaea by Eusebius of Nicomedia. It was regarded as so disdainful…
Does William Lane Craig Have An Orthodox Christology?
Gossip is a feature of the world from which Christians are called to abstain. For we cannot spread rumors about people, attribute statements to them, and misrepresent them, especially without…
How Could Jesus Be Both God And Man?
One of the most primitive of the theological quagmires that have arisen in the Christian movement is: how could Jesus be both God and man? This question has come as…
Is The Angel Of The Lord The Second Person Of The Trinity?
Non-trinitarians object that the doctrine of the trinity is a post-apostolic phenomenon. It was developed in the latter stages of the development of the early church, but it has no…
What Does John 1:1 Mean?
The gospel of John is perhaps the most important biography of Jesus, with regard to our understanding of who Jesus was. John wrote his prologue (1:1-18) knowing that it was…
Are The Father And The Holy Spirit The Same Person?
Christians often might be confused about the distinction between God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. After all, does the Bible not refer to the Holy Spirit as the…
What Does Philippians 2:5-8 Mean?
I usually avoid exegetical articles for the sole reason that they do not attract a lot of attention. Most of my articles are more topical, and like my cohort Evan…
What Is A Good Analogy For The Trinity?
When we want to explain something, especially complex topics, we often want to appeal to analogies and illustrations as tools to help us illustrate our point. This seems to carry…
Is Jesus God In The Gospel of Mark?
Is Jesus God in The Gospel of Mark? It is sometimes asserted that because the Gospel of Mark is the oldest surviving gospel, that it is the least theologically loaded.…