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Nope. Jesus is Not Yahweh.
In my last post I pointed out that some conservative evangelical Christians (maybe others? These are the ones I know about) claim that Jesus,...
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Is Jesus Yahweh?
Increasingly over the past couple of years I have heard people say that Christians think that Jesus is Yahweh. I suppose some do (in...
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Fifty Ways to Forge a Gospel
You may already know New Testament scholar and blog member James McGrath. James is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and...
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Was Marcion a Gnostic?
A number of readers have asked the same question based on my posts on Marcion: Was Marcion a Gnostic? Here’s one reader’s way of...
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The Earliest Views of the Trinity (Long after the New Testament)
In the previous post we saw how two important church fathers attacked the “modalist” view of the relationship between God the Father, God the...
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How Can the Father and the Son Be the SAME? Can Your Father Also Be Your Son?
Dr. Ehrman shows how the early church fathers Tertullian and Hippolytus mocked the view that the God the father and God the son were...