theology
Doctrinal studies addressing key themes in Christian belief through Scripture and sound exegesis.
Qanah: Create or Acquire? Paid Members Public
One of the OT texts, which was widely appealed to in the early Christian centuries as the very words of Christ in his prehuman existence, is Proverbs 8:22-36. There, God’s Wisdom describes herself as already being there with YHWH from before the creation of the world. The reason
Machen on the Virgin Birth Paid Members Public
The following has been uploaded from this site: Dr. J. Gresham Machen – The Virgin Birth. THE BIBLE TO-DAY, 19.3 (December, 1924): 75-79. The Virgin Birth By J. Gresham Machen, D.D., Assistant Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis in Princeton Theological Seminary Part 1 of an address delivered
An EO’s New Testament Translation Paid Members Public
In this post I will be quoting select references from Eastern Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart’s The New Testament: A Translation, published by Yale University Press in 2017. As the readers will see, Hart rendering of specific Christological texts is far from Orthodox, and even smacks of outright Arianism.
CHRIST: THE FATHER’S CO-CREATOR Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense, authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Part 4: Doing What Only God Does: Jesus’ Divine Deeds, Chapter 32: The
1 Cor. 8:6: The Christian Shema Paid Members Public
In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians written around 55 AD, he states the following: “to us there is only one God, the Father (heis Theos ho pater), from whom everything comes, and for who we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ (heis Kyrios ‘Iesous Christos), by
Hilary: God is the Trinity Paid Members Public
Here I cite from St. Hilary of Poitier’s work On the Trinity, Book VII, where this holy saint affirms that the term God refers the divine Persons who share the same name and nature. All emphasis will be mine. 31. We see how the living Son of the living
Epiphanius’ Refutation of the Arians Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
In this post I will be quoting from the English rendering of The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis Books II and III. De Fide (Second, revised Edition), translated by Frank Williams [Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013], Volume 39, 368-374. Epiphanius refutes the Arian misuse of Acts 2:36 and Mark 13:32/
Epiphanius on Jesus as the Divine Angel Paid Members Public
The extracts in this post are taken from the English rendering of The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis Books II and III. De Fide (Second, revised Edition), translated by Frank Williams [Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013], Volume 39,, pp. 362-66. Epiphanius affirms that Jesus is the divine Angel who appeared in the