2018

The following text is often quoted by Anti-Trinitarians, especially those of a Muslim persuasion, to prove that Jesus Christ is not God, but a man who is separate and distinct from God: “For there is one God (heis gar theos), and there is one mediator (heis kai mesites) between God

In a previous post /2017/04/26/jesus-christ-the-god-who-is-the-all-in-all-a-response-to-iglesia-ni-cristo/, I responded to Iglesia Ni Cristo apologist Joe Ventilacion’s use of the New Living Translation’s (NLT) rendering of 1 Corinthians 15:28 in his debate with Dr. James R. White to disprove Jesus’ essential coequality with the Father. After having

In the opening statements of his debate with Dr. James R. White, Iglesia Ni Cristo apologist Joe Ventilacion pitted 1 John 3:20, where John says that God knows all things against Matthew 24:36, a passage where Jesus says that he as the Son doesn’t know the day

Since Muslims always bring up the issue of God dying as a way of showing Christians the absurdity of their believing that Christ is God who died https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/04/12/can-evangelical-apologists-answer-the-question-how-can-god-die/, I have decided to turn the tables on them in order to give them a taste

Having established that Luke-Acts emphatically teach that salvation comes from trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ /2017/04/11/animal-sacrifices-and-the-atoning-death-of-christ-in-the-book-of-acts-pt-1/, and not by the Law and/or the sacrificial system prescribed by Moses, we can now address the verses in question. Here they are one more time: “Then on the

In a desperate attempt of trying to find ways to undermine the necessity and sufficiency of the death of Christ for the forgiveness of sins, some Muhammmadans have begun to appeal to the following verses from the book of Acts https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/04/05/did-earliest-christians-believe-alleged-crucifixion-to-be-indispensable/: “When we had

In this post I am going to be tackling Muhammadan Paul Bilal Williams’ comments to Christian apologist Samuel Green’s statements regarding the inspired testimony of Acts to the Deity of Christ. You can read William’s response by clicking here https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/03/16/31512/#comment-44003. WILLIAMS

We continue from where we previously left off /2017/03/31/revisiting-the-implications-of-psalm-110-has-on-the-divine-identity-of-the-messiah-pt-1/.  Only God could be David’s Lord The only one who could possibly be David’s Lord is Yahweh God himself, just as the following passages affirm:  “To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O

I am going to touch on Psalm 110 once again in order to show that the Lord whom Yahweh invites to sit enthroned alongside of him is a divine Person who is one with Yahweh in essence and nature. We will break down the Psalm in two sections, beginning with

We continue from where we previously left off /2017/03/30/how-were-the-believers-that-lived-before-the-crucifixion-saved-pt-1/. The witness of Luke-Acts Like Mark before him, the blessed Apostle Paul’s traveling companion goes out of his way to affirm that Jesus’ vicarious death and resurrection had been announced beforehand in the sacred writings of God’