“A great war always creates more scoundrels than it kills” (Blackwood Magazine of England, circa 1860’s). Genesis 22 is a wonderful harbinger of the Story of the Crucifixion; it paints a picture of Abraham, a father, walking side-by-side with Isaac,…
Tag: Trinitarian
John 8:42 and the Trinity*
When students of Scripture adopt a theological idea contrary to mainstream understanding, they sometimes invest texts with novel interpretations. These often strain the simple meaning of the text to lay claims to biblical support for their unique beliefs. Such…
Adventists Don’t Know Christ…
Many of you around at the time will remember the “Bo Knows” ad campaign from the late 1980’s with baseball/football player Bo Jackson. The ads “envisioned Jackson attempting to take up a litany of other sports, including tennis, golf, luge, auto…
Did Christ Have a Beginning?**
Did Christ Have a Beginning? In my dialogues with anti-Trinitarian Seventh-day Adventists, I have regularly encountered the assertion that Psalm 2:7 shows that Christ was begotten by the Father prior to the incarnation, in eternity: “‘I will declare the…
ELLEN WHITE’S TRINITARIAN STATEMENTS: WHAT DID SHE ACTUALLY WRITE?
I recently ran into a presentation from the Ellen G. White Estate (mentioned in this article) which discusses three issues: Skeptics say that “…the expression (“sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the Third Person…