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@RLT63 do you want me to doubt my faith? I know there are some here who do. I don’t currently perceive you as someone who does.

Does talking about these things increase your faith or cause you to doubt? Do you find your faith strengthened by these conversations or do they cause you to doubt? You haven’t answered the questions which you posed. I’m interested in hearing your answer because I’m interested in you, but you...

There is other ground here. Spending time on that other ground, at least for a while, might refresh you. Keep in mind also that discussion forums are toxic environments. We all need to take breaks from them from time to time.

Me too. I think that’s a good thing, a gift, and all good gifts come down from above (James 1:17).

“There is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary, There is rest for you. On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the tree of life is blooming, There is rest for you.” Rest for the Weary (Chorus)

What a splendid opportunity you had there. Did they silence your voice? (Internet martyrdom.) In college we had courses on evangelism. How do we get our Christian voice into “the marketplace” of ideas? The world of the non-Christian.

Talking about these things increases my faith. I find my faith strengthened by these conversations. By no means do they cause me to doubt.

Does anyone besides me remember the days when trinitarians went door knocking to take the message of trinitarianism to the non-trinitarian populace? Now the non-trinitarian populace comes knocking on the internet door of the trinitarian. “Go away,” is now heard from the trinitarian, when...

If I’m a trinitarian, I want “the subjects of the Trinity and the deity of Christ” to be discussed as much as possible. The last thing I would want is for them to be seldom discussed or not discussed at all. But maybe that’s just me.

Do you object to that? They’ve been the top subjects on all of the online religious discussion forums I’ve ever been on. I think those forums probably wouldn’t fare well without them. One forum owner I spoke with privately told me he didn’t have much interest in them himself but they were “the...

My handwriting is the harbinger of death for cursive. Having spent a year working as a draftsman for an engineering firm prior to obtaining my college degree in civil engineering, my handwriting has been for the forty years since in block lettering. Few examples of my writing in cursive still...

How popular is Joe Biden? Wildly, in some quarters.

God certainly didn’t give birth to Jesus. He caused Mary to give birth to Jesus. God beget Jesus; Mary conceived and gave birth to Jesus. This is the beginning of Jesus. Jesus has a beginning. His beginning is in the womb of his mother, as we are told in the birth narratives in Matthew and...

@RLT63 do you believe that the Father and the Son are in any sense two Gods?

You primarily read the home team. I primarily read the visiting team. We primarily read trinitarian writers.

Thanks. Out of all the Ante-Nicene Fathers I was exposed to in college, Origen was the one I least enjoyed reading. I did the bare amount of assigned reading in school and never went back for much more of Origen than a few excerpts from other writings after graduating. “Eternal generation of...

Are over 90% of them written by non-trinitarian writers?

@RLT63 do you believe the New Testament provides us with a new understanding of who God is?

He was famous in his day, and popular for a couple of centuries following them. I don’t hear people talking about him and his commentary much anymore. After my paternal grandfather died I inherited his small library. Among the books was Adam Clarke’s Commentary. At first that surprised me...

Thanks. I think he blew up trinitarianism. I can’t fathom a Trinity which doesn’t include an eternal Son. Without “eternal generation” we’re back to the subordinationism that once existed in the Church.