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The text explains who the word became when incarnated. I believe 1 John is John’s own commentary on his Gospel. I don’t see trinitarians at this level of conversation using it that way.

Colossians 1:16. Some translations say “by him,” other translations say “in him”. Translators must make a decision between the two possibilities. Some trinitarian scholars made the decision to render it “by him;” other trinitarian scholars made the decision to render it “in him”. I encourage...

They aren’t dirty. They are, in most instances, highly skilled and trained trinitarian scholars. On the whole, I think they’ve done an outstanding job. All translations have strengths and weaknesses, and there is such a thing as translator bias. Those who work as translators openly acknowledge it.

God’s logos became flesh. This is incarnation; enfleshment. Theologies will explain what this incarnation is and what it means.

There is no such verse anywhere in scripture - Old Testament and New Testament. There is post-biblical commentary which places it there.

Thank you. I’ve heard Christians and non-Christians alike ask the question. I think there’s a tendency to assume that that someone asking it is a non-Christian, inquiring about Christianity. Mahatma Gandhi, for instance, famously said that he liked the Christian’s Christ; Christians not so...

“Can the dead live again? If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle, and I would eagerly await the release of death.” (Job 14:14, NLT) Resurrection hope. Resurrection to life is the release of death. The Messiah is just the firstborn from the dead. He has been released...

If a person believes man is, or has, an eternal soul, then it’s not a matter of living forever. Everyone will forever - the righteous and the wicked. In that belief system it’s nothing more than a matter of location - “Better housing in heaven than the housing in hell.” What is the name of the...

“I believe the Church needs to recapture the classic Christian answer to the question of death and beyond, which these days is not so much disbelieved (in the world and church alike) as simply not known … The voice of the early Christians has not been disbelieved but simply not heard at all.”...

Offered for historical perspective. “For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but do not admit the truth of the resurrection and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who say that there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls when they...

“Death for a Christian does not mean a shifting from one mode of being to another but the very destruction of life, the drifting of being into nonbeing. All the thinkers of Christianity have been trying to evade this notion of death as the complete destruction of life. Where they succeed, the...

That’s the popular view. I hold the primitive Christian view.

The source of trinitarianism is found in Church history, not in rabbinical Judaism.

It’s a misguided attempt by some to persuade Jews to convert - “the ancient rabbis were trinitarians.” Most Jews see through it quickly and easily. The ancient rabbis weren’t trinitarians. The argument makes trinitarians look foolish.

King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind (BBC version)

Reading Tertullian this evening, a question crossed my mind: What is the difference between “the Trinity” and “a Trinity”? The answer: Orthodoxy.

Was the man who asked you the question a Christian or a non-Christian @Robert Gwin?

I’m in agreement with William Tyndale’s line of reasoning. “And ye [Roman Catholics], in putting departed souls in heaven, hell, and purgatory, destroy the arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the resurrection. The true faith putteth the resurrection, which we are warned to look for every...

Jesus was in the tomb for three days and three nights. The thief is still in his grave.

“A man may work from dusk to dawn, but a woman’s work is never done.” It’s an old saying, and sometimes it pops into my mind when I read the story of Martha and Mary in Luke 10:38-42. Jesus ready with the answer.