By Dale Tuggy on October 17, 2016. Reblogged from Trinities Do the gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke discreetly but clearly imply that Jesus is God? This has become a popular reading lately among evangelicals, thanks in large part… Read More ›
This hilarious video proves that Christians like Lizzie and Jay Smith are closet Marcionites (an early Christian heresy). As Yahya Snow puts it: “The utter lack of regard for the teachings of the Old Testament and the willingness to throw… Read More ›
If you have any interest in Christology, you won’t want to miss this round-up of recent blogging on the topic! October 12, 2016 by James F. McGrath 8 Comments Let me start this round-up of recent blogging about Christology with… Read More ›
sorry for the out of sync sound
I love this argument 🙂
The full debate between me and Lizzy, one of Jay Smith’s followers.
When Reza Aslan’s bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn’t addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that “if Aslan had actually… Read More ›
Sacred Freedom – Western Liberalist Ideologies in the Light of Islam Sacred Freedom contains a concise and frank examination of the legitimacy of atheism, humanism, pluralism, democracy and secularism as guiding ideologies for humankind. Discussing the consequences of a pluralistic… Read More ›
A fascinating conversation between New Testament scholar J.R. Daniel Kirk and Anthony Buzzard exploring the fact that the Jesus of the synoptic gospels can best be understood not as God but as an idealized human figure.
“Suppose that the moral structure, the ethical voice, the heart-wrenching aesthetic, the endless yearning for a world made good, are not the fantasies of a deracinated ape, but rather are signposts to deep realities in which our destiny may be… Read More ›
Author of the new book A Man Attested by God The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, a thought-provoking alternative perspective on the full humanity of Jesus Christ, J. R. Daniel Kirk holds a PhD in New Testament from Duke University… Read More ›
“People are not always what they say there are – or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us objectively, and we have reason to be thankful that He is called the Merciful, the Compassionate,… Read More ›
Brother Hashim and Blogging Theology writer Richard Zetter at Speakers’ Corner yesterday. A good discussion.
Muslims worship the same God whom Christians and Jews worship. The word Allah is the Arabic equivalent to the English word God. The word Allah is used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews as well as Muslims. Nostra aetate (Latin: In… Read More ›
It is noteworthy that no other Gospel refers to Jesus as “the Word;” it is an intertextuality that exists between and the Qur’an and the Gospel of John only. In Q 3:64, after a long section about Jesus (Q 3:42-63),… Read More ›
“But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11
An impressive new video asking some good questions: Just who is Jesus? What is his nature? God, man or both? This video examines some reasons from the Bible why Jesus cannot be God.
review by Kermit Zarley Josh McDowell is an evangelical Christian, a public evangelist, and an apologist. For decades, he was a traveling speaker for the para-church organization Campus Crusade for Christ, that ministers mostly to college students. I was involved… Read More ›
Reblogged from Professor Bart Ehrman’s Blog I mentioned in a previous post the scarcely-remembered-these-days Diogenes Poliorcetes (Diogenes, the Conqueror of Cities), who was acclaimed as a divine being by a hymn-writer (and others) in Athens because he liberated them from… Read More ›
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