Yes, we are to truly fear God. Indeed, perhaps one of the central sins of our age that gives birth to so many others is that we, often even in the church, have such a low view of God that His might and grandeur do not strike fear in our hearts. People take other sins...
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Doctrine and Theology
The Trinity in the Book of Hebrews
The doctrine of the Trinity is the historic Christian teaching that there is only one God and that the one God has eternally existed in three distinct persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. While the case for this doctrine is best made by taking the Bible...
The glory of the temple and the deity of Christ
God's glory is often used in Scripture as a term for His unique indwelling presence, such as in the holiest place in the temple. This same terminology is applied to Jesus in a manner that seems to strongly point to the deity of Christ The God of the Bible is awesome,...
A Harmony of The Gospels Containing the Seven Sayings of Jesus
The four Gospels provide different accounts of the life of Christ. They do not all follow a strict chronological order since it was the custom of writers to bring up points to emphasize an idea. So, sometimes there are questions as to the exact order of certain...
What is the incarnation?
The term "incarnate, incarnation" means "to become flesh." The incarnation is that event where the second person of the Trinity, the Word, became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:1, "in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God." John...
Trinitarian formulas in the Bible and the early Church
New Testament Christianity is deeply rooted in God's revelation of Himself as the Trinity; one and only one God who exists in three coequal and coeternal persons. It is not merely true that Scripture plainly reveals the doctrine of the Trinity. Scripture also shows us...
The Trinity before Nicea
It is a consistent assertion of many critics of biblical Christianity that Christians before the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. did not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. Conspiracy theories abound where this council (or Constantine, the Roman Emperor of that time)...
John 12:37-41 and the deity of Christ
John 12 presents a clear and compelling testimony that Jesus is YHWH (Yahweh, Jehovah), the one true God of Israel. After describing Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem and Jesus predicting His own approaching death, John goes on to explain: "But though He had...
Philippians 2 and the deity of Christ
"Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being...
Romans 8:9-11 and the Trinity
"However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because...