Loving the Trinity part 8

I have established the Bible teaches 1) there is only one God and 2) the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate persons (can communicate, think rationally, love, etc.).  Now if I can show the third premise to be Biblical, I will have provided justification for believing in the doctrine of the Trinity. 3.  [...]

Loving the Trinity part 4

Modalism and Arianism distorted the truth of the Trinity.  Prior to the council of Nicea in AD 325, the early church had soundly rejected modalism.  At Nicea the church bishops were gathering to try to establish what the Bible taught concerning the Trinity and deal with the issue of Arianism.  These bishops came to this [...]

Discovering the Historical Jesus part 3

After Identifying who the critics are, I will now make a positive case for why I think the Jesus of history is the Jesus of the Bible.   In the process I will test the historical accuracy of the Bible.  Can the Bible be trusted? Answering the critics I will look at the writings outside the [...]

Is God the Author of the Bible? Part 14

I will conclude my critique of Michael Coogan’s article posted on CNN.com[1].  In my previous post I showed his premise, loving your neighbor as the most important value in the Bible, was false.  Now he finishes his article indicating three individuals Rabbi Hillel, Jesus Christ, and the Apostle Paul, who he says agree with him [...]

Answering Who Created God

I received an interesting letter in response to my post “Who Created God?”  As I began to fashion a reply I saw this as an opportunity to demonstrate to others how to answer what appears to be a very intellectual comment.  I will begin by outlining what I look for in a response.  All of [...]

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