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Biblical studies on the nature, attributes, and identity of God, with emphasis on monotheism and divine revelation.

JESUS AS GOD IN JOHN 20:28 Members Public

COMMENTARY The confession of Thomas, coming as it does at the climax of John’s Gospel, is perhaps the clearest affirmation of Christ’s deity in the Bible. It is clear, despite various theories to the contrary (see “Other views Considered,” below), that Thomas was speaking directly to Jesus. The

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1 COR. 8 AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Members Public

COMMENTARY Paul draws a contrast between false deities and the Father and Son. Whereas the pagan deities are false, there is to us “one God, the Father”, and “one Lord, Jesus Christ”. He maintains a distinction of Personality between the Father and Son by assigning a different title of Deity

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THE EARLY CHURCH ON THE ETERNAL BEGETTING OF THE SON Members Public

In this very short post, I will cite a few early church fathers and writers who all affirm the uncreated, eternal nature of the Son. Chapter 6. Preserve harmony Since therefore I have, in the persons before mentioned, beheld the whole multitude of you in faith and love, I exhort

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BEFORE ABRAHAM: PROVING CHRIST’S ETERNAL EXISTENCE Members Public

In this post I will refute the unitarian perversion of John’s Gospel in their crusade to deny the eternal existence of Jesus. I will show how the Evangelist affirms the uncreated nature of Christ in clear and unambiguous language that only those blinded by their presuppositions and/or human

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THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND JESUS CHRIST Members Public

A Biblical and Theological Appraisal By Bruce M. Metzger Theology Today 10/1 (April 1953), pp. 65-85. I. Who Are the Jehovah’s Witnesses? The sect known today as the Jehovah’s Witnesses originated about 1872 when Charles Taze Russell (born February 16, 1852) of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and a

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New World Translation On Jehovah Becoming Flesh Members Public

In this post I will employ the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (2013 Revision) to prove that Jesus Christ is identified as Jehovah God Almighty in the flesh. A. Jesus is the Jehovah who comes to repay every person according to what s/he has

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The Meaning of Monogenes: Is Jesus God’s “Only Begotten” Son? Members Public

The following lengthy excerpt is taken from Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theoolgy (Second Edition): An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, published by Zondervan Academic, Grand Rapids, MI 2020, Part 2: The Doctrine of God, Chapter 14. God in Three Persons: The Trinity, pp. 293-298. “In John 3:16, Jesus is

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ALLAH: THE CREATOR OF SOME THINGS BUT NOT EVERY THING Members Public

The Quran describes Allah as creating seven heavens and seven earths, and everything which exists within them: He it is Who created for you all that is on earth. Then He Istawa (rose over) towards the heaven and made them seven heavens and He is the All-Knower of everything.

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