Category: Deity of Christ
ContraArianism, Part 3
Here is another installment of my conversation with ContraModalism. ContraModalism: “I don’t understand what you think you’ve actually established. Your objection that being God isn’t an ontological statement but merely one about relations is unconvincing.” Well I’ve presented you with the evidence I see for Godhood being dominion, and have been able to easily answer every supposed objection to it you have brought forward. So find it unconvincing if you like, but it seems to me you lack a reason. “You already granted that the phrase is actually about ontology.” I don’t know where you get the idea that I’ve … Continue reading ContraArianism, Part 3
ContraArianism, Part 2
I engaged in another back and forth with ContraModalism. ContraModalism: I did not say that God is dominion, but that divinity or Godhood is dominion. In other words a God is a being which possesses dominion, and deity or divinity is dominion. As for your question of if the Son shares all the ontological attributes with the Father required to exercise dominion, I have already answered you several times on this in the affirmative. And I agree that the Son possesses the same divinity as the Father, in that He shares in the Father’s dominion over all things. Your problem … Continue reading ContraArianism, Part 2
Godhood and Dominion
I asked some questions to two Unitarian apologists that believe themselves to be a Trinitarian. TheSire: How close is their similarity? Do they possess all the same(generic) Divine properties? What distinguishes you from a tritheist? ContraModalism: “God begot God, that the Lord begot the Lord, that the King begot the King, that the Creator begot the Creator, that the Good begot the Good, that the Wise begot the Wise, that the Merciful begot the Merciful, and that the Powerful begot the Powerful.” (Maximinus) The Son is like the Father in that He is the Image of the Father, the exact … Continue reading Godhood and Dominion
Simon Gathercole on the Preexistence of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels
Simon Gathercole gave lectures on the issue of the Christology of the Synoptic Gospels: The Synoptic “I Have Come” Sayings of Jesus and Pre-Existence, Part 1 The Synoptic “I Have Come” Sayings of Jesus and Pre-Existence, Part 2 The Synoptic “I Have Come” Sayings of Jesus and Pre-Existence, Part 3 Sin in God’s Economy: Agencies in Romans 1 & 7 The Petrine and Pauline Sola Fide in Galatians 2 Continue reading Simon Gathercole on the Preexistence of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels
Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)
Many who deny the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ (Arianism in all its forms for example) have attempted to make the historical case that early Christians prior to the Council of Nicea didn’t believe in such things as the idea that Christ, in addition to His human nature, possesses fully the Divine nature in the same way that God the Father and God the Spirit do. While the orthodox Christian may respond with an appeal to a plethora of early documents such as Ignatius’ (A.D. 30-107) statements that demonstrate a high Christology in the Ante-Nicene period, and rightly so, … Continue reading Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)
Why didn’t Jesus know the day or hour?
The Archetypal Image in Colossians 1:15: Theological Implications
Why is Jesus called the Word?
‘Beginning of the Creation’
Revelation 3:14 states: “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: The reason I bring up this text is that it is a commonly misused text by Unitarians. They present it as meaning that Christ is the first created thing. I think this has some problems: i) There is debate whether it should be translated “the Beginning of the creation of God” or “The ruler of God’s creation”. It is a common theme that Christ does rule over creation. The latter is unlikely … Continue reading ‘Beginning of the Creation’
The Council 
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