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…
Sometimes a translation difference can have massive implications for our theology. Take Hebrews 1:8 for example. Today we are going to examine how this verse should be translated, and why. The way that we translate the original Greek text of Hebrews 1:8 greatly influences what we teach concerning the divine nature of Jesus Christ. Compare…
The other day as I was reading 2 Corinthians I noticed a powerful parallel that sheds some light (pun intended, as you'll see) on how we understand God's nature. When I saw this connection, it was a revelatory moment that strengthened my understanding of "the mighty God in Christ." As an introduction, some people may…
A couple weeks ago I wrote an article, Our Father and Our Lord, discussing the distinction between Jesus and God the Father. This dimension of our Christology is so important, and I really feel like it is underemphasized by a lot of Oneness believers. By focusing on Jesus' true humanity we gain so much. We find…
Jesus and the Father are both God; but there is only one God; but Jesus and the Father are distinct from one another---how can we reconcile these distinctions? How can we explain these truths without explaining them away? Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus give us some powerful verses to help us understand these powerful…
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