Why You Should Believe Jesus of Nazareth Is a Human Person

by Troy Salinger [source]

Pantokrator_of_SinaiBefore I present why you should believe Jesus of Nazareth is a simple human person, I must define what I mean by simple, since the word has many applications. I will use the Collins online dictionary definitions for simple that pertain to what I mean in applying this word to Jesus. Here are the applicable definitions:

1.having or consisting of only one part, feature, substance, etc.; not compounded or complex; single
2.without additions or qualifications; … Read the rest

7 Reasons Why Not To Think The Memra Of The Targums Is A Second Hypostasis Of God

By Troy Salinger

MemraThe purpose of this article is to counter some of the torrent of misinformation being promulgated on the internet concerning the ‘memra’ of the targums. Many of the claims made regarding the meaning and function of memra in the targums is greatly over-exaggerated or just plain false. Most of the misinformation and hyperbolic claims being disseminated by online apologists have been derived, whether correctly or incorrectly understood, from the work of two scholars – the Jewish Professor … Read the rest

A Brief History of the Unitarians 1687

imagesA Brief History of the Unitarians by Stephen Nye · 1687

[I post this because it traces long before the Socinians, the doctrines they held can be found in history prior to Nicea]

The First Letter, Concerning the Unitarians, vulgarly called Socinians.

SIR,

IN Answer to yours, demanding a brief account of the Unitarians, called also Socinians; their Doctrine concerning God (in which only they differ from other Christians, the Remonstrants, professedly agreeing with them in other points of Faith … Read the rest

Proposition # 30: According to 1 John 4:3 and 2 John 7 anyone who denies that Jesus is God come in the flesh is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Response: Carefully read the referenced verses:

AntiChrist“By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God; and this is the antichrist which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world.” (1 John 4:2-3)

(Picture on right The Deeds of Antichrist by Luca Signorelli, c. 1505)… Read the rest

Proposition # 29: According to 1 John 4:8, 16, “God is love.” Love, an eternal attribute of God, existed before the creation of the universe. Whom did God love before the creation of Adam, if there were not distinct persons within the Godhead?”

Trinity with Question MarkResponse: To limit God’s love to human understanding and experience is absurd. For us, love is, primarily, an emotion. For God, love is a foundational character attribute (1 John 4:8; 1 John 4:16) which underlies His mercy, generosity, justice, holiness, creativity and all His other qualities.

Christian love is more than an emotion; it is showing dignity and respect due fellow creatures made in God’s image. Have you ever met someone whose personality you found disagreeable? Yet you treated that … Read the rest

Proposition # 28: God is immutable, which means He does not change. If Jesus did not eternally pre-exist with God, then God fundamentally changed when He became Jesus’ Father. God cannot change in such basic ways.

Trinity with Question MarkResponse: There was a time when the creation did not exist. Did God fundamentally change when He became a Creator? There was a time when the nation of Israel was enslaved by Egyptians. Did God fundamentally change when He became their Deliverer?

According to Trinitarian doctrine each person of ‘The Trinity’ enjoys all the attributes of Deity, which would include immutability. This would mean that from eternity past the alleged second person of ‘The Trinity’ could not change. How, then, … Read the rest