Month: January 2024

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

Proposition # 27: The Bible says that everything produces after its own kind. Therefore, if Jesus is the Son of God, he must be God also.

Trinity with Question MarkResponse: God is a spirit being and angels are spirit beings (and the Bible calls them ‘sons of God.’) Do Trinitarians believe angels are God in the same way they claim Jesus is God?

Adam, the first human created by God, was made in the image and likeness of God, and is referred to as a Son of God. Did this make him God in the same way Trinitarians claim Jesus is God? Though the proposition seems logical, the … Read the rest

Proposition # 26: The Trinity must be true or the Church with its creeds has been in error for 1700 years.

Response: “Let God be true, even though every person is a liar.” (Romans 3:4)

Trinity with Question MarkDid Jesus –the Son of the true God– tell the truth or did he lie when he said that the Father is the “only true God”? Which would be better, the Church in error or Jesus in error? (John 17:1-3)

When we compare the history of the institutional Church (Roman Catholic, Eastern [Orthodox] Catholic, and Protestant) to the teachings of the Prince of Peace we should … Read the rest