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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...

“Many of the sacred writers spoke of a Messiah who was to be Yahweh’s agent in establishing the kingdom of Yahweh in the messianic age. However, they regarded the Messiah not as a divine person but as a creature, a charismatic leader, a Davidic king. Thus the Old Testament writings about God...

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence … It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.” - John Lennox

* Funny but not ha ha funny. *

*I’m not in the market for a bilingual baby deer but I am curious about what they go for. *

I’ll try to skim through this later. I’m a Dynamic Monarchian, but not a trinitarian. I think the author is writing, as a trinitarian, against Nicene Christianity. He states in his conclusion that he is staying within the boundaries of Nicene Christianity. Ultimately, the trinitarians among us...

Even as late as AD 380 the church transitioning from the Jewish monotheism of its 1st century founder to trinitarianism hadn’t fully established what we now call historical orthodox trinitarianism; this to the chagrin of another major figure in trinitarian history, Gregory of Nazianzus. The...

What do you do with Gregory of Nyssa? I have the same sources that you have, and then some. I wish that we didn’t live so far apart. I would gladly share all of them with you.

“Unitarianism as a theological movement began much earlier in history; indeed it antedated Trinitarianism by many decades. Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian. The road from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth-century Trinitarianism did not...

The ECF’s are transitionary figures. They aren’t Jewish monotheists, nor are they Nicenes.