Easter Message: Death has Dominion, Mastery and Power over the Christian God. from Calling Christians In Easter, you’d be seeing a lot of celebrations over God’s “victory over death”. Slogans en masse such as, “He is Risen!” Perhaps though, one… Read More ›
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The Crucified God – Credo quia absurdum
Credo quia absurdum is a Latin phrase that means “I believe because it is absurd.” It is a paraphrase of a statement by the early Christian theologian Tertullian in his work De Carne Christi (written AD 203-206). Realising the intractable… Read More ›
Islam makes real men – who fear none but Allah
A grenade was shot during prayer in Syria. Watch their reaction. This is what real men do. You fear no one but Allah. (source Jack The Lad)
Possibly the coolest video ever made about Jesus and the Bible – enjoy!
10 Minute Truth Talks: The Father is the Only True God
The real meaning of Easter by the Rev’d James Fields MA BD
A Christian priest friend of mine in the real world (ie not on-line) emailed me his comments on If God Needed A Blood Sacrifice For Sin, God Is Not Holy. James gave me permission to post his comments here: Interesting…Easter would mean… Read More ›
If God Needed A Blood Sacrifice For Sin, God Is Not Holy
Benjamin L. Corey is an Anabaptist author, speaker, and blogger. He is a two-time graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Theology & Missiology), and is a doctoral candidate at Fuller Seminary, California (which I have been to). This excellent article was… Read More ›
Psalm 110:1 – Christians take note
A Psalm of David: The LORD says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” Dale Martin is professor of New Testament at Yale University
Perichoresis of Trinitarian Confusion
Alternatively, we can accept the simple theology of Jesus the Christ as taught in Mark 12: One of the teachers of the law asked Jesus: “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus,… Read More ›
Bart Ehrman on the Origins of the Trinity
Professor Bart Ehrman makes New Testament scholarship accessible to the public
Living with SSA (same sex attraction) as a Muslim.
When I became a Muslim I decided that I would not hide the fact that I have same sex attraction. I wanted liberals and secularists (be they Christian or Muslim) to see that an adult convert to Islam with SSA… Read More ›
A rebuttal (sort of)
In a recent video Nabeel Qureshi claims that “the Islamic God is not loving because He’s not triune”. I considered doing a rebuttal of this remarkably silly idea but decided instead to let Ricky Gervais have the last word…
“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A
Streamed live on 12 Feb 2016. This video needs to be cut down and re-posted. Intro: 29:29 Ehrman’s opening: 34:00 Bird’s opening: 1:25:50 Q&A: 2:11:44
Did Jesus know himself to be divine, the pre-existent Son of God?
‘But if we are to submit our speculations to the text [the four canonical gospels] and build our theology only with the bricks provided by careful exegesis we cannot say with any confidence that Jesus knew himself to be divine,… Read More ›
Issues Atheists Are Unable to Answer – Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf says in this short clip not to take anything the atheists say seriously.
What do Muslims share with Jesus? We all pray to the One true God
John 20:17: Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God… Read More ›
Who is the strongest?
Acts 2:22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.
Only worship the One whom he proclaimed!
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”… Read More ›
Evangelical use of Prof. Larry Hurtado to prove Jesus is God backfires badly
Asad posted a comment on my Concluding Comments from Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird post. It is so insightful and significant I thought it worthwhile to make a separate post of it here. Asad wrote: Notice what Hurtado said: “The historical Jesus… Read More ›
The Truth About the Trinity in 5 Minutes
‘Does the Bible teach that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three persons in one essence? Or does the Bible teach that God is one person: the Father, that Jesus is God’s Son, and that the Holy… Read More ›
From Facebook to God’s Book
by Maryam Amirebrahimi, February 20, 2013, 11 min read Many of us have an addictive relationship with Facebook. We check our accounts compulsively, multiple times a day. It is sometimes the last thing many of us do before we sleep… Read More ›
“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A – Part 2
Streamed live 16 hours ago
“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A
Streamed live 18 hours ago
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