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I was raised in a church that didn’t recite the creeds. I didn’t know at the time that there was such as thing as creeds. I’d never even heard of them. If someone had mentioned early church fathers to me I probably would have thought they were speaking about men who had children and attended...

“Love makes duty a pleasure.” - Thomas Watson

I’m currently reading Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome’s First-Century Conquest of Judea, written by Mireille Hadas-Lebel.

“Teaching is for walking. ’Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.’ Psalm 86:11” - John Piper

* I don’t know about the rabbit but that bird is cuckoo. *

“We have then here, from the mouth of the angel himself an authentic explanation of the term Son of God in the former part of his message. After this explanation, Mary could only understand the title in this sense: a human being of whose existence God Himself is the immediate author. It does not...

“I wonder what the result would be if we all kept a chart for one week and put down on paper the amount of time which we spent in reading God’s word and things which help us to understand it, and the time we spent reading newspapers and novels or watching films?” - Martyn Lloyd-Jones My chart...

“The miraculous coming into being of Christ in the virgin through the holy spirit and real preexistence of Christ mutually exclude each other. Later, and in fact very soon, people were admittedly forced to think of them as compatible.” (Adolf Harnack, Dogmengeschichte, Vol. 1, p.118). By...

No, I wasn’t. I’d like to ask again: How many times have you read the Bible? How long has it been since you have? “I even don’t read the Bible!” - your post #43

Conception is the mechanism whereby a human person is brought into existence. Conception is the mechanism that gives a human person life. Conception is the mechanism that gives a human person a body of flesh. That can’t be gotten around. How does trinitarianism solve this in regard to Jesus...

If it really is true then the only option for the two ideas to be reconciled with one another that is left open to us is the Jewish concept of preexistence.