theology
Doctrinal studies addressing key themes in Christian belief through Scripture and sound exegesis.
JUDE TESTIFIES: JESUS IS NOT MICHAEL! Paid Members Public
This post expands on the following article that I wrote on this subject: Michael’s Contention With Satan. As I showed in my previous post, what Jude says about Jesus and Michael clearly shows that they cannot be one and the same Being. Whereas Michael is depicted as a mighty
WHO IS THE ELOHIM OF MORMONISM? Paid Members Public
According to Mormon teaching, the Father is Elohim whereas Jesus in his prehuman existence was/is Jehovah: “God the Eternal Father, whom we designate by the exalted name-title ‘Elohim,’ is the literal Parent of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and of the spirits of the human race” (“The Father
WHO IS THE ELOHIM OF MORMONISM? PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off: WHO IS THE ELOHIM OF MORMONISM?. THE REFUTATION In this section I will be refuting the Mormon view that the Father is Elohim whereas Jesus is Jehovah by appealing to the only Scriptures that the true God has ever inspired, namely, the
CHRIST: THE OFFSPRING OF CREATION? Paid Members Public
In writing to the Church at Colossae, St. Paul includes what scholars believe to be an early hymn that emphasizes the work of Christ in creation and redemption: “Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom
JUSTIN MARTYR’S CHRISTOLOGY REVISITED Paid Members Public
In this post I am to revisit what the second century apologist Justin Martyr wrote in respect to Christ’s Deity. I want to focus on Justin’s statements where he emphatically identifies the prehuman Jesus as that very YHWH God who appeared to the OT saints. This will help
WHO DID EVE THINK SHE CONCEIVED? Paid Members Public
In Genesis, God had announced to the serpent (identified as Satan/the Devil elsewhere in Scripture [Cf. Wisdom 2:23-24; Hebrews 2:14-15; Revelation 12:9; 20:2]), that his head would be crushed/bruised by the Seed of the Woman: “And Yahweh God said to the serpent, ‘Because you
THE DIVINE KING OF KINGS Paid Members Public
According to the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition, YHWH is the only Lord of lords and King of kings that dwells in heaven above: “For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God who does not show
MARK’S DIVINE SON OF MAN Paid Members Public
A QUICK DEFENSE FOR CHRIST’S DEITY According to Jesus, the Holy Spirit inspired David to recognize and worship the Messiah as his very own Lord whom God exalts to sit enthroned at his right hand: “And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, ‘How is it