There are different kinds of worship; not all worship is divine worship—i.e., the type of worship that someone gives to God or a god. This is less apparent to those of us who speak modern English, because in our idiom the word "worship" now refers almost exclusively to the reverence given to a deity; unless…
Lately I have been thinking a lot about 2 Corinthians 3:17, and especially about what this verse teaches us regarding the identity of Jesus. As I see it, the wording of this verse has serious implications relating to the deity of Christ. With that in mind, I would like to ask two Christological questions in…
A few days ago I posted an article defending Paul’s statement in Titus 2:13 that Jesus is “the great God” against Unitarian objections. In that article, I demonstrated that the Granville Sharp Construction (GSC) can co-exist with Anaphora—and thus Paul can call Jesus “the great God” while simultaneously referring back to his opening description of…
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God; one of the clearest scriptures on this point is Titus 2:13, which describes him as “our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (ESV). Nevertheless those who deny the deity of Jesus (e.g., Unitarians, JWs) maintain that this verse doesn’t call Jesus God at all. Such people say…
Recently, someone on a Facebook group I am in tried to use a particular rule of Greek grammar (known as Sharp’s sixth rule) to prove that 2 Corinthians 13:14 and Matthew 28:19 teach the Trinity doctrine. His explanation sounds convincing if you don’t know Greek; but when you know Greek, you realize that things are…
Earlier this year the trinitarian apologist Michael Burgos published an article on the website Biblical Trinitarian, titled "A Look at Three Passages Oneness Pentecostals Use to Demonstrate that Jesus is the Father." In his article, Burgos attempts to refute the Oneness doctrine by challenging our exegesis of three key scriptural passages (viz., Isaiah 9:6, John…
Our Trinitarian friends tell us that God is three divine persons who all share the same essence. Therefore, they say, God can speak or be described with either singular or plural pronouns. The Trinitarian's go-to example for this alleged phenomenon is Genesis 1:26-27, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our…
One of the most powerful verses in the whole Bible, to me at least, is Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (KJV)πρὸς δὲ τὸν υἱόν Ὁ θρόνος σου ὁ θεός εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ…
Almost without fail, our Trinitarian friends will use plural pronouns in the Bible to argue that God is a Trinity. The stereotypical example is Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image;" but as we have already discussed in another post, this verse in no way proves a Trinity. My question for our Trinitarian…
Occasionally our good Trinitarian friends point to Bible verses that seem to describe God with plural pronouns (verses like "let us make man in our image"). Then they use these plural pronouns to teach that God is more than one person. They believe these plural pronouns support the Trinity doctrine, which teaches that God is…
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