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............................................................... Should Jesus really be considered to be God because he was symbolically “named” Immanuel (Is. 7:14; Mt. 1:23) which means “God is with us”? No more so than Gabriel was calling himself God when he visited Mary and declared: “The...

there are at least two other ways this personal name has been interpreted by reputable Bible scholars. (1) The titles within the name (e.g., “Mighty God”) are intended in their secondary, subordinate senses. (2) the titles within the name are meant to praise God the Father, not the Messiah...

.................................................................. After searching through the NT (using an online search and the trinitarian New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible) to find all the places in the New Testament where kurios and kurie are clearly used as nouns...

................................................................. In spite of many trinitarians insisting that Thomas was addressing Jesus with these words using kurios (nominative) in place of vocative (kurie), it is certain that John always used kurie in address for "Lord." In the writings...

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Hippolytus (c. 160-235 A.D.) Hippolytus, “the most important 3rd century theologian of the Roman Church” (p. 652, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, F. L. Cross, Oxford University Press, 1990 reprint) wrote: Chapter xxviii - The Doctrine of the Truth The first and only (one God)...

.......................................................... Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-213 A.D.) “Clement himself was undoubtedly the most significant Alexandrian apologist” – p. 179, Robert M. Grant, Greek Apologists of the Second Century, Westminster Press, 1988. Clement of Alexandria...

.............................................................. Tertullian Trinitarian Boer (as do most trinitarians) wants us to believe that Origen’s and Tertullian’s doctrines of God and the Son of God were actually leading to trinitarianism. But is this true? What did Tertullian actually...

..................................... Origen (continued) Trinitarian Latourette also says that “Origen held that God is one, and is the Father” - p. 49, Christianity Through the Ages, Harper ChapelBook, 1965. Trinitarian Bernhard Lohse also concedes that Origen taught that ‘the Son was a...

.................................................................. Origen Origen was probably the most accomplished Biblical scholar produced by the early Church - p. 6346, Vol. 17, Universal Standard Encyclopedia (Funk and Wagnalls), 1956. The character of Origen is singularly pure and...

............................................. Irenaeus (c. 140-203 A.D.) The trinitarian New Bible Dictionary teaches us: “Irenaeus and Origen share with Tertullian the responsibility for the formulation [of the trinity doctrine] which is still, in the main, that of the Church ....” - p...

.......................................... Justin Martyr A saying of Justin Martyr indicates what lack of clarity there was with regard to the development of the doctrine of the Trinity as late as the middle of the second century .... He admits that Christians indeed reject the false pagan...

.............................................. Trinitarian scholar, minister, and missionary, H. R. Boer admits: The very first Christians to really discuss Jesus’ relationship to God in their writings were the Apologists. “Justin and the other Apologists therefore taught that the Son is a...

.................................................. A portion of my study of John 20:28: The very fact that the words of Thomas are not a complete statement show that it is probably the abbreviated form of a common expression or doxology (#2 above) and not a statement of identification such as...

....................................................................... Only a very few relatively late copies (sometimes only a single source) exist of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. The copies of copies by trinitarian copyists ending in the single (or very few) copy existing today are filled with...

Examining the Trinity ("Where does the NWT falsify?")

.................................................. It must be 'a god' in John 1:1c. My personal studies on my blog: Examining the Trinity Logos (The 'Word')

................................................. 'Sharp's Rule' Primer (part 1) In an attempt to prove the trinity doctrine, Granville Sharp made up a rule in 1798. It is often called "Sharp's Rule" by trinitarians. It says, in effect, that when two or more words (nouns) in the original Greek...

....................................................... The Leeser Bible translates it: “Wonderful, counsellor of the mighty God, of the everlasting Father, the prince of peace” Also, An American Translation (by trinitarians Smith and Goodspeed) says: "Wonderful counselor is God almighty...