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Listen to Gregory of Nyssa. Listen to Jesus of Nazareth. Everyone must decide for themselves. I listened to Gregory of Nyssa (the voice of trinitarianism). I listened to Jesus (the voice of Jewish unitarianism). I made a decision. I’m walking the road of Jewish monotheism with the Messiah...

“Jewish monotheism is heresy. The Jewish dogma has been destroyed.” * Gregory of Nysaa says confidently in my left ear. * ”I am a Jewish monotheist. Which way are you going? Which way will you go?” * Jesus whispers softly in my right ear. *

* All it takes is a little practice. That’s the hard part. *

“Christmas posed a major issue for Nazi Germany, since Jesus was a Jew.” https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1540394/adolf-hitler-world-war-2-nazi-germany-fuhrer-christmas-silent-night-spt

* Come and visit sometime. I’ll leave the porch light on for you. *

* Don’t need a loyalty program when you have a captive audience. *

“The internet has done great good and great harm to the church. The internet has amplified the voices of many good teachers. But it has amplified the voices of false and manipulative teachers as well. Discernment is crucial when navigating Christian conversations online.” - Wendell Phelps

“Today the clarity and necessity of Chalcedonm if not refuted or disproved, has been widely forgotten and ignored. Christianity took four centuries to formulate its witness to the deity and humanity of Christ in the context of the one God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in such a way that it...

“Historians of Christianity and its relationship to society often claim that Constantine created Christian Europe, or Christendom, but that now we are in the post-Constantinian era. In theology, we have to say that we now seem to have entered a post-Chalcedonian era. The transformation this...

“It is a simple and undeniable historical fact that several major doctrines that now seem central to the Christian faith - such as the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the deity of Christ - were not present in a full and well-defined, generally accepted form until the fourth or fifth...

“Jesus was a Palestinian Jew; most of his early followers were Jews, and for a number of years the civil authorities and the surrounding secular world looked on Christianity as a variety of Judaism. Indeed, for at least thirty or forty years, until the conquest of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D...

“It is impossible to document what we now call orthodoxy in the first two centuries of Christianity; heresy often appears more predominantly, so much so that orthodoxy looks like a reaction to it. But we can document orthodoxy for all the centuries since then - in other words, for close to...

“If we take the New Testament writers together they tell us there is only one God, the creator and lord of the universe, who is the Father of Jesus. … They give us in their writings a triadic ground plan and triadic formulas. They do not speak in abstract terms of nature, substance, person...

“No more than the old Testament writers do the New Testament writers set forth a systematic doctrine about God. For them, too, there is only one God, the creator and lord of the universe; and He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is the heavenly Father, but more especially the Father of...

* Be careful out there. Snaccidents happen. *

Acknowledging that strict unitarianism preceded trinitarianism in the early church is simply acknowledging an historical fact. However, church history didn’t end in the first century and to deny that the church moved, gradually, away from its unitarian roots to trinitarianism would be to deny...