A Defense of Objective Truth
Truth is subjective to many people and relative to Christians and atheists alike. Subjectivism, as such, is the rejection of objective truth for a wide array of reasons. Atheists and anti-theists generally share a secular …
The Deity of Christ
The book Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ begins with Part one, entitled “The Devotion Revolution: Jesus Shares the Honors Due to God.” There are five parts of the …
The Triadic Contour
The interpretive grounds and soteriological purpose of the Trinity are based solely upon the authority and meaning of Scripture revealed by God as transmitted by the biblical authors. From the Old Testament to the New, …
The Triadic Decision
There are distinctions between Eastern and Western doctrines of the Trinity that reveal a separation of thought about its internal relations. The Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) formations of Trinitarian theology amount to historically propagative …
The Triadic Vortex
This afternoon I finished reading the entirety of God in Three Persons: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Trinity (342-pages). The whole effort was time well spent because it concerns the doctrine of the Trinity upon …
The Triadic State
Throughout section three of God in Three Persons – A Contemporary Interpretation of the Trinity, Erickson offers comprehensive and compelling scriptural evidence for the Trinity as a way to understand the identity and interwoven roles …
Immanence & Immutability
In my reading this week, an author at length wrote about God’s metaphysical and logical nature of existence. Specifically, it concerns the intelligibility and coherence of the doctrine of the Trinity when considering the doctrine …
Metaphysical Transcendence & Meaning
As many have observed throughout centuries past, the doctrine of the Trinity isn’t explicitly identified as a term or concept to present to us how we are to identify or interpret God. In his book, …
The Locality of Inspiration
Two years ago, when I joined the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), I was required to affirm the inerrancy of Scripture. While I’m not a literalist or fundamentalist, I still willingly and whole-heartedly embrace the doctrine …
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy
The following are chapter notes from the book, “Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy.” The book is a compilation of essays from R. Albert Mohler Jr., Peter Enns, Michael F. Bird, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and John …
The Articles of Inerrancy
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy – 1978 Preface The authority of Scripture is a key issue for the Christian Church in this and every age. Those who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord …
The Glory of Rome
This post is to bring into view the work of the apostle Paul as he brought the gospel to Jews and Gentiles in the first-century world of Asia Minor and Eastern Europe. More specially, Paul …
Letters from Prison
While Paul was in Rome, there is some evidence he was released and afterward wrote his epistles to Timothy (1 Timothy) and Titus. After about 63 A.D., Paul was reportedly released from his first Roman …
The Echoes of Suffering
Today I finished reading the entirety of Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free by F.F. Bruce. The title of the text in the U.K. is Paul: Apostle of the Free Spirit. The text is …
The Macedonian Path
It is technically incorrect to conclude that the dominant message of Philippians is the nurturing of Christian joy. The Greek word for “joy” (χαρᾶς) that Paul wrote in his letter to the Philippians appears several …
