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ContraArianism, Part 2

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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

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Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)

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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)

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A simplistic discussion on the Trinity

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This is not a full-blown model of the Trinity, but it will allow a simplistic articulation of the orthodox doctrine. The Trinity is a very complicated debate and I don’t have the brainpower to say anything remarkable about it. The only thing I will attempt is to explain or formulate a decent trinitarian doctrine. We will start with Biblical monotheism and move from there. In Christian theology, we know that only one God exists, Yahweh. This is foundational to a Biblical worldview(Deut 6:4, Psalm 86:10, Isa 40-48, John 1:1-3,17:3, 1Cor 8:4-6, Gal. 4:8-9). This also puts us in a strange … Continue reading A simplistic discussion on the Trinity

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Did God Die?

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http://reformedapologist.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-person-die-on-cross-or-just-jesus.html http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-immortal-dies.html?m=1 http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2017/04/when-god-mighty-maker-died.html?m=1 http://www.proginosko.com/2017/05/tuggys-triad-and-the-death-of-god/ Continue reading Did God Die?

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The Fall of the Watchtower

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Here is a conversation I had with a Jehovah’s witness. I am gonna add to it a bit to help benefit others. I’m gonna try to model how a conversation with one should occur. A preliminary question is in order. How do we distinguish God from creatures? I think we in order need to discern certain positions, attributes, and prerogatives that God has that no other being has. This is the common approach of New Testament scholarship: Essentially a Christology of divine identity includes Jesus in the unique identity of God as understood in Second Temple Judaism. It takes up the … Continue reading The Fall of the Watchtower