trinity
Biblical and theological defenses of the Triune nature of God with rigorous exegesis.
Apocrypha & Messiah’s Deity Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
There are two remarkable statements in the apocryphal writing 2 Esdras, which confirm Jesus’ Divinity and Messianic status. They show that Jesus did indeed make himself out to be God by carrying out the very functions, which even the so-called Apocrypha ascribe to God. Israel Rejects YHWH their God According
Divine Name Christology Paid Members Public
The Hebrew Bible often equates God’s Name with God himself, which is why blaspheming the Name or using it in vain makes a person guilty of a heinous sin punishable by death: “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave
Samuel Clarke’s Trinitarian Subordinationism Paid Members Public
Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) was a Church of England divine who became the rector of the parish church of St. James, Westminster, a position he held until his death in 1729. Clarke became the focus of intense and heated controversy due to his unorthodox, “heterodox” views of the Trinity, which
Justin Martyr on Isa. 42:8 & Christ’s Glory Paid Members Public
In this post I will be excerpting a section from St. Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, in which the blessed saint sets out to prove the following: 1. The Scriptures are inerrant, having no real contradictions. 2. The Jewish elders reject specific verses from the Greek version
Tertullian: Trinity is the Faith of the Ancient Church Paid Members Public
In refuting the modalist heretic named Praxeas, the second-third century AD North African Apologist Tertullian stresses the fact that belief in the Trinity has always been the ancient belief of the Church, much older than the hereies spewed by Praxeus and others. Here’s what he wrote: Chapter 2. The
The God Who Is Tri-Personal Paid Members Public
The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 241-255. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts
Hermas’ Trinitarianism Paid Members Public
In this post I revisit the theology of the book known as the Shepherd of Hermas in order to show that this is a very early Christian witness to the Church’s belief in the Trinity and the Son’s essential coequality with the Father. Many scholars date the writing
Christ: God of God Paid Members Public
The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts and James