I and the Father are [a]one.” John 10:30 NASB One – The Trinity. A doctrine that divided Christianity—not only from Judaism but from itself. In the early centuries of Christian development, the split over the proclaimed divinity of Christ broke the Christian world in two. Arius and Athanasius. It wasn’t a happy separation. Accomplished by murder,…
to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 1:25 NIV Only – Jude wrote this letter toward the end of the first century CE. By then Messianic assemblies were established in many cities of the Mediterranean world. Jude’s language shows…
Are You not from time everlasting, Lord, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Habakkuk 1:12a NASB We – What is a tiqun sofrim? As you might guess, it is a written restoration, a place where a scribe corrected the text because of the theological implication. In this case, the Masoretic text reads “we,”…
And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne, and his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel: For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him. 1 Enoch 51:3 My throne – Academicians recognize that the “son of Man” in the gospel…
“ I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.” John 1:34 NASB Son – Listen, I don’t want to stoke the fire here. I’m not interested in kindling another Trinitarian blaze. But recently I read something by Joel Hoffman, a well-respected Hebrew linguist and translator, that revealed another issue in the…
“But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” Luke 5:24 NIV Authority on earth – I wrote Cross Word Puzzles seven years ago. A lot has changed since then. In…
in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the [c]world. Hebrews 1:2 NASB The world – At least they added a footnote. The footnote indicates that the Greek word here is not “cosmos,” the word we would have expected in a translation such as “world”…
for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11 NASB Christ the Lord – “The Church cannot indefinitely continue to believe about Jesus what he did not know to be true about himself.”[1] So writes John Bowman. But, of course, Bowman is a heretic, isn’t…
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Matthew 28:19 NASB In the name of – Recently Uriel be Mordechai came to my home to teach a group of readers about the impact of the p46 document (papyrus #46…
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:5 NASB THIS IS LONG Man – Is any doctrine more divisive than the Trinity? You might ask, “Why are you asking this question? Didn’t the Church always believe in the triune God?” If you grew…
