holy-spirit
Studies defending the deity, personhood, and work of the Holy Spirit using Scripture and exegesis.
Wisdom as a Divine Hypostasis Paid Members Public
I will be posting the verses, which Christians have historically appealed to as proof that God’s Wisdom is a divine Hypostasis or Person who became embodied in Jesus Christ. These were the texts that the early Church pointed to as indicating that Jesus Christ is God’s eternal, uncreated
Novatian, Trinity, Modalism, Hypostatic Union Paid Members Public
The quotations which I will cite here are taken from Novatian's Treatise Concerning the Trinity. All emphasis will be mine. Novatian sets forth biblical texts to refute the modalist lie that Jesus is the Father. He instead proves that the Father, Son and Spirit are personally distinct and
Joseph Smith the Binitarian Paid Members Public
The following lecture from Joseph Smith, the false prophet of the Mormon faith, is taken from: Lectures on Faith/Lecture Fifth. It can also be accessed here: Fifth Theological Lecture on Faith, circa January–May 1835.... The readers will see that Smith initially taught that there are only two divine
Another Unitarian Dilemma: How Many Saviors? Paid Members Public
In a book discussing the various views on the Trinity, one of the contributors Dr. Beau Branson, an Eastern Orthodox philosopher, levels the following challenge to Unitarians in general, and to Unitarian philosopher Dale Tuggy in particular: “Our second desideratum deals with the most common objection to Trinitarianism (in our
Some Unusual Proofs for the Trinity Paid Members Public
In this post I will be sharing some uncommon prooftexts for the Trinity by focusing on verses, which have a threefold pattern or structure. The Triune God that Blesses The Levitical priests were commanded to bless God’s people by pronouncing a threefold benediction: “Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Filioque, Petrine & Roman Primacy Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from Francis Dvornik, Byzantine missions among the Slavs. SS. Constantine-Cyril and Methodius (F. Dvornik, Byzantine missions among the Slavs - 6), pp. 189-192. The citations deal with the letter of Pope St. Stephen (Latin – Stephanus V, died September 14, 891) where he mentions that the
Water Baptism Now Saves You! Paid Members Public
On the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit had filled and empowered the disciples of Christ to proclaim the Gospel, Peter preached to the crowds of Jews that they had to turn to Christ and undergo water baptism in order to be saved: “Now when they heard this, they
The Seed that Blesses the World: Israel Not It! Paid Members Public
Orthodox Jews, Zionists and specific Christian sects quote the following Old Testament passage to prove that national Israel is the seed of Abraham whom God said would either be a blessing or a curse to the nations: “And Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of Yahweh to