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Thanks. I appreciate the effort that you‘ve gone to in order to make certain that I understand your position. I’ve used the same article myself in conversations with trinitarians. It’s a departure from the Jewish monotheism of Israel. It is for that reason that I reject the concept.

I grasp that what you’ve asserted is consistent with trinitarian theology (It’s also consistent with binitarian theology, and with the largest branch of unitarian theology.) Have you grasped that it isn’t consistent with the theology of Jewish monotheism? It’s important that you do. This...

I hadn’t planned to quote A.E. Harvey in this thread but now I think I will. ”In later times the church, no longer perceiving the power and decisiveness of the agent-son-representative model, and having among its members men used to a more philosophical analysis, felt it necessary to go further...

Conception christology is the underpinning of Jewish monotheism. It doesn’t work at all with literal preexistence christology. I’ll soon document this point using trinitarian scholarship. It’s of critical importance for me to keep this uppermost and fixed in your mind. I’m identifying with 1st...

The end result isn’t the same. Jewish monotheism is wholly incompatible with the concept eternal Sonship. It was the key (the Lutheran scholar J.L. Neve calls it his “helpful suggestion” in his A History of Christian Thought) contribution of Origen - eternal generation - which set the stage for...

“In 1:27 Luke tells us twice that Mary was a virgin at the time of the annunciation. This detail is not something that can be explained from the literary pattern of OT annunciations of birth since none of the annunciations cited in Table VIII concerned a woman who was a virgin. A conception by a...

“power. … Not knowing the rules of parallelism in biblical poetry which make it clear that ‘power from the Most High’ is synonymous with ‘Holy Spirit,’ some patristic and medieval theologians thought that the reference in 35b,c were respectively to the Third and Second Persons of the Trinity, so...

“will be called holy - Son of God. See NOTE on ‘will be called’ in vs. 32; it is tantamount to saying ‘he will be.’ And so I cannot follow those theologians who try to avoid the causal connotation in the ‘Therefore’ which begins this line by arguing that for Luke the conception of the child does...

“Therefore. Of the nine times dio kai occurs in the NT, three are in Luke / Acts. It involves a certain causality; and Lyonnet, ‘L’Annonciation,’ 61.6, points out that this has embarrassed many orthodox theologians, since in pre-existence christology a conception by the Holy Spirit in Mary’s...

“If you feel like God is ignoring you … Open your Bible. Read it. That’s Him speaking to you.” (Shane Pruitt) https://x.com/shane_pruitt78/status/1915180055669391638?s=61

* The one that has averted his eyes from taking pleasure in evil. *

* Still in good working order, too. *

That’s good. How many times have you read the Bible? How long has it been since you have? What Holy Books are you alluding to?

“It’s fun to have fun but you have to know how.” - Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) “Jesus is divine and Jesus is God but you have to know how.” - Matthias