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Jewish monotheists don’t believe that God has ever forsaken himself, nor that God has at anytime been unaware of himself. Some, but not all, trinitarians do. Offered for consideration, from my “For you” feed on X / Twitter yesterday: ”I love the hymn ‘How Deep the Father’s Love For Us.’ It’s...

If the answer is no, then the apostles stand together and John must be harmonized with Matthew and Luke. Trinitarianism, binitarianism and much of unitarianism doesn’t do that.

“I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.” - Ronald Reagan

”Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.” (Matthew 1:18, DRA) A historical note. It was Origen in the 3rd century, not the angel in the 1st century, who came up with...

No he will not. That’s alright. I’ll go it alone.

I don’t recall ever having claimed “Jesus didn’t know he is God in the flesh.” Where did I make that claim? Jesus is God in the flesh. When we seen and hear Jesus we see and hear God in him.

Mary and Joseph are Jewish monotheists. Jesus is a Jewish monotheist. Thomas is a Jewish monotheist, as are all of the apostles and the earliest disciples. Christianity began as a sect of Judaism. What Thomas said is wholly consistent with the constraints of history and Jewish monotheism. No...

Matthew and Luke are grounded on conception Christology. The question that should be asked: Did John intend to overturn the conception Christology of Matthew and Luke?

“… the begetting is not quasi-sexual as if God takes the place of a male principle in mating with Mary. There is more of a connotation of creativity. … Mary is a virgin who has not known man, and therefore the child is totally God’s work - a new creation.” (Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the...

My mind keeps returning this morning to my conversation with PS95. I can’t with a clear conscience join UCA because of the big tent approach that it takes. I‘ve made it known in other threads that I don’t agree with the majority of unitarians and won’t be yoked with them. Conscientious...

@TrevorHL I’m providing a link for you (and anyone else who might be interested) to a lecture on Dynamic Monarchianism given by Dr. Gaston at a UCA conference last year. I’m not a member of UCA but I personally know many who are. I’m a Dynamic Monarchian, but not an Adoptionist. I‘ve only...

It’s not my preferred way but I hold that personification is a valid way of reading John’s prologue. Thomas E. Gaston discusses Jewish Christians who believed in the virgin birth and rejected literal preexistence in his book Dynamic Monarchianism: The Earliest Christology?. The problem -...