Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3004. The deity of Jesus is the foundation Christianity stands or falls on. If Jesus is not God, Christianity collapses and we remain in our sins. If He truly is God, then His words carry final authority, His death has infinite value, and His promises are as certain as God’s own character. So what…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2071. Functional subordination is the term I use to describe what Jesus means in John 14:28 when He tells His disciples, ‘the Father is greater than I’ (John 14:28). It is one of the more delicate corners of Trinitarian doctrine, because getting it wrong in either direction leads somewhere heretical, and I want to…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2059. The Trinity and consciousness is a question that takes me right to the frontier of what can actually be known about God, and it turns out to sit at the frontier of what the word consciousness is even equipped to mean once it is applied to a divine being rather than a human…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2029. Is the Trinity in the Old Testament, or does it only appear once the New Testament arrives with Jesus and Pentecost? This question matters more than it might first seem, because if the doctrine of the Trinity suddenly appears out of nowhere in the New Testament, with no anticipation whatsoever in Israel’s own…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2028. Trinity doctrine is, without much question, the single most distinctive claim Christianity makes about the very nature of God, and yet many Christians could not explain it clearly if asked. This Deep Dive sets out, at proper length and without shortcuts, what Trinity doctrine actually asserts, how it differs from the various errors…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2027. How can the triune God be three persons and yet one God, without that being either a contradiction or three gods wearing a trench coat? This is a Deep Dive question because the honest answer requires more than a slogan. I want to walk through what Scripture actually claims, why it is not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2022. Masculine language for God runs through the whole Bible, “He,” “Him,” “Father,” “King,” and I am often asked why, given that God is spirit and not literally male, as I explained in my article on whether God has a gender. This question digs into the small word “He” specifically, the pronoun itself, rather…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2020. What does Trinitarian prayer look like, and should we pray to the Father, to Jesus, or to the Holy Spirit? This question comes up more than you might expect, usually from newer believers who have noticed that different prayers offered in church seem to be addressed to different persons of the Trinity and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2015. Is what we call the economic Trinity, the roles the Father, Son and Spirit play toward creation and redemption, essential to who God is, or is it just a convenient arrangement they could have swapped around? This question sounds abstract until you notice how much of the gospel depends on the answer. The…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2013. The phrase eternal generation of the Son appears in no single verse of Scripture in those exact words, and that immediately raises a fair question. Is this a doctrine the church developed to explain what Scripture teaches, or is it an addition that goes beyond what Scripture actually says? The answer matters a…