When Jesus Became God

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When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein

This book is a MUST READ by honest Trinitarians and non-Trinitarians alike. 

Background note : When the creator of this website was Eastern/ByzantineRubenstein Catholic (known as the self proclaimed and crowned Eastern “Orthodox”) for almost 8 years, my family was fed a neatly designed packaged claiming that all heresy in regard to “The Trinity” and the dispute … Read the rest

Early High Christology – Did Jesus think he was God?

This is a FEATURED VIDEO of a presentation given by Kegan Chandler, from YOUTUBE.

Trinity Fidget SpinnerNOTE : When watching – remember what the doctrine of “The Trinity” is. TRINITY DEFINITIONS can be found for review under categories on the right.

Kegan Chandler works us through the answers from the “Early High Christology Club” to the question “Did Jesus know he was God”? We discover that there is not one consistent view among these scholars (like Michael F. Bird, N.T. Wright, Read the rest

The Trinity Before Nicea

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The NOTES on this presentation can be found on Sean’s excellent RESTITUTIO site here :

https://restitutio.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Trinity-before-Nicea-TheCon-2019.pdf

NOTE : When watching – remember what the doctrine of “The Trinity” is besides what Matt Slick’s definition is in this video. SEE “DEFINITIONS OF THE TRINITY” under “categories” on the right.Read the rest

The Muratorian Fragment

papyrusNamed for L. A. Muratori (d. 1750), the Italian scholar who discovered it in an eighth-century copy, this fragment by an unknown author, probably of the late second century, is the earliest known list of books intended as a New Testament canon. It includes all the books later considered canonical except Hebrews, James, and 1 and 2 Peter; it also includes the Wisdom of Solomon and the Apocalypse of Peter. The indications of books to be rejected display the Read the rest

Repentance and Righteousness

Theophilus of Antioch (b.115 – d.181)

repentance“And when the people transgressed the law which had been given to them by God, God being good and pitiful, unwilling to destroy them, in addition to His giving them the law, afterwards sent forth also prophets to them from among their brethren, to teach and remind them of the contents of the law, and to turn them to repentance, that they might sin no more. But if they persisted in their wicked deeds, Read the rest

On the Nature of Man

Theophilus of Antioch (b.115 – d.181)

theophilus“But some one will say to us, Was man made by nature mortal? Certainly not. Was he, then, immortal? Neither do we affirm this. But one will say, Was he, then, nothing? Not even this hits the mark. He was by nature neither mortal nor immortal. For if He had made him immortal from the beginning, He would have made him God. Again, if He had made him mortal, God would seem to Read the rest