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“Lord, help me to give up everything that is impure in thought, or word, or deed.“ - Charles Spurgeon

@Scott Downey there is a common misunderstanding of Jewish monotheism among trinitarians (and among others who aren’t Jewish monotheists) -> “Jewish monotheists don’t believe the Messiah is divine.” For Jewish monotheists who don’t believe Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah that is a true...

That’s right. I don’t know if you can do this or not but can you forget for a moment that you’ve ever read John 1:1-3? Can you wipe your mind free and put yourself in the place of someone who is coming to John’s Gospel for the very first time and doesn’t know anything at all about? No...

In the silence of “the great pause” we should ask ourselves, “Which came first in the Church: trinitarianism or Jewish monotheism?” Who knows what theology lurked in the hearts of the earliest church members, the primitive Christians? The shadow of Church history do. And Fortman, when I...

You shouldn’t believe it if you don’t think it holds water. I believe it because in Jewish monotheism it does hold water. Have you read William Barclay’s commentary on Abraham seeing the Messiah? He does a splendid job of presenting Jewish monotheism. You most likely won’t find it persuasive...

* I hope the cheap jolly gifter retains their good sense of humor when they have to pay all the late book return fines. *

* I need to get me some colours like that. The colors I have aren’t all that friendly. *

* Man is made out of the soil. The tree helps the man. Thanks, tree! (And the God who made both.) *

* I have a hunch that the teacher also hasn’t forgotten it. *

I agree that he is. Do you understand now how this works with Jewish monotheism? I’m not asking you to agree with it. I’m just asking if you understand it. Paul is a Jewish monotheist, not a trinitarian. It’s trinitarianism (also binitarianism and sometimes unitarianism) that depends on Greek...

God [“the only God our Savior” (Jude 1:25)] is speaking prophetically about the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible.

You’re making an interesting point. I disagree with Arius. His timing, like that of Tertullian, for the begetting of the Son is just prior to the Genesis creation. (Neither Arius nor Tertullian is trinitarian; nor are they Jewish monotheists.) I also don’t agree with Origen, who is the one who...

That’s right. As I explained a short while ago, preexistence in Jewish monotheism is notional (sometimes also called “ideal”), not literal. By whom? By his God. Right? All good gifts come down from heaven. It’s a Jewish idiom for all good things, all blessings, come down to us from our God...

That isn’t what Jewish monotheism teaches. Jewish monotheism teaches that Jesus the man did preexist. “Jesus the man” is “Jesus the Son of God” in Jewish monotheism. As the angel told Mary (who is also a Jewish monotheist), it was because Jesus would be begotten in her, that Jesus would be...

The point he makes is that in the historical setting of the 1st century, Jewish monotheism is the prevailing theology of the culture, Yahweh is the Father. No one else is. Jesus isn’t. Jesus is the Messiah. His God is the Father alone, Yahweh. Jesus isn’t a trinitarian. He’s a Jewish...