trinity
Biblical and theological defenses of the Triune nature of God with rigorous exegesis.
JOHN 5:23 Paid Members Public
An article by Robert Hommel. 23 so that all will honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. Commentary Jesus now reveals the reason that all judgment has been given to Him: So that
HONOR THE SON AS GOD Paid Members Public
In John’s Gospel, our Lord stated that the Father has commanded that all creatures give the Son the exact same honor that they render to the Father: “The Father wants all people to honor the Son as much as they honor him. When anyone refuses to honor the Son,
FATHER & SON’S INSEPARABLE UNION Paid Members Public
The following lengthy exposition of John 5:18-29 is taken from Donlad A. Carson’s The Gospel according to John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MI: Inter-Varsity Press; W.B. Eerdmans, 1991), pp. 249–259. All emphasis will be mine. 5:18. Jesus’ opponents
TRINITY IN IRENAEUS & TERTULLIAN Paid Members Public
In this post I sum up some of the clearest testimonies to the Trinitarian beliefs of Irenaeus and Tertullian. All emphasis will be mine. IRENAEUS 9… But there is one only God, the Creator— He who is above every Principality, and Power, and Dominion, and Virtue: He is Father, He
AUGUSTINE: FATHER GREATER THAN CHRIST Paid Members Public
The following extracts are taken from St. Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John. All emphasis is mine. On John 5:18-19 16. Further, what said the evangelist as he went on? Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath,
The Holy Spirit: Jesus’ Divine Mother? Paid Members Public
In his commentary on Isaiah, St. Jerome quotes a Gospel attributed to certain Jewish sects that identified the Holy Spirit as a female and thought that the Spirit was Jesus’ mother. This Gospel also claims it was the Holy Spirit who spoke to Christ at the latter’s baptism, where
PS. 2:7 & ETERNAL GENERATION PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off. GOD’S CONTINUOUS “TODAY” In this part I will be focusing on the term used in Psalm 2:7, namely, “today” (semeron): “So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said
PS. 2:7 & ETERNAL GENERATION PT. 1 Paid Members Public
In this post I am going to examine the [N]ew [T]estament use of Psalm 2:7 in respect to the eternal begetting/generation of the Son. I will provide some of the exegetical reasons why so many of the early church fathers/writers saw this as an [O]