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John’s monotheism is the same as the Messiah’s monotheism, the monotheism of Israel. ”John is as undeviating a witness as any in the New Testament to the fundamental tenet of Judaism“ - J.A.T. Robinson I haven’t invented anything. See the concept of ideal preexistence. It’s fundamental to...

Could you set a small daily goal?

“Do not be ashamed of aging. Why sorrow that another year of trial is over?” - C.H. Spurgeon

* Gravy’s attorney *

* ‘Tis always the season. *

It’s imperative that you hear Jesus himself speak @Riven. His words are given to him, put into his mouth to speak, by his God and they are life imparting. How frequently are you reading him these days?

I am. Are you aware of what the lord said in Matthew 5:11-13? If I were a betting man, I’d bet the farm that you are. I live it and rejoice.

Adding please would have been a nice touch that also wouldn’t have mattered. Name that movie?

There was a time when it was. Few would say that it is now. I want to encourage my readers to read church history.

Denial of the existence of Jewish monotheism doesn’t hold water. It never has and it never will. It’s the starting point of Christianity. Once dominant, it was destroyed. See the documentation of its destruction in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa.

I highly recommend this book to my readers. While the purpose of the (Protestant) author is to draw people either to or back to historical orthodox trinitarianism, he treats Jewish monotheism fairly. The Jewish monotheism of Israel and the earliest Christians can no more be removed from church...

Anti-intellectualism is on full display in this thread.

“The New Testament writers are really quite careful at this point. Jesus is not the God of Israel. He is not the Father. He is not Yahweh.” (James D.G. Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?, p. 142-144) The concession to Jewish monotheism is always based on the history of Israel, the...

The trinitarian professor makes the concession to Jewish monotheism on historical grounds. It’s one thing to reject Jewish monotheism. It’s another to say that it doesn’t exist and conflicts with the belief and practice of the earliest Christians. Don’t, I would urge my readers, be deniers of...

Recommended reading on the subject of Jewish monotheism in the early church - the primitive Christians.