For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. In the course of our discussion we have made reference to a lot of history surrounding the original Arian controversy. It took nearly a century to sort things out on this. Organisationally the Watchtower is separate from the Arian churches of long ago. …
My Lord and My God: Divinity and Infinity
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. Having cleared up the matter of the Son being “created” or more informatively “generated” we must turn to the problem of the Son being God and subordinate to the Father at the same time. Like the generation of the Son, this is a …
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The Easy Way Out for Frederica Mathewes-Green (and everyone else) on Gay Marriage
Her series on this is a little different: I could sum it up: 1, I haven’t spoken out against gay marriage because I don’t see it damaging marriage any more than straight people have already done. 2, my spiritual tradition has found by experience, over millennia, that sex apart from hetero marriage damages one’s spiritual …
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My Lord and My God: In the Beginning…
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. We have come a long way through a complicated part of church history to stand where we do. We should note, however, that our main purpose is not a history lesson but to get at the truth of a very important part of …
My Lord and My God: Wisdom of the Wise
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. We have come a long way already in our journey through both the Scriptures and the Fathers concerning our subject. We have seen that both affirmed that a) Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are God and b) both are subordinate to the …
My Lord and My God: Obedient as Far as Death
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. We have demonstrated Bible teaches that both Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are God. We have also shown that the Ante-Nicene Fathers we have examined are in agreement with this. We have also discovered that the Ante-Nicene Fathers taught that the Son …
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My Lord and My God: The Word Was God
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. Having set forth the positions of the Ante-Nicene Fathers on the subject of the deity of Christ, we need to turn to those “God-breathed” scriptures to see if our position has foundation in inspiration. It is our purpose here to show that the …
My Lord and My God: Faith of Our Fathers
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. When we engage any group that has missed an important essential of the truth, we usually start with the Bible. If the group with which we are discussing[1] things accepts the Bible as authoritative, then things are to some extent simpler; it becomes …
On Councils, FiFNA, Icons and Intercession
One of the more recent kerfuffles in the Anglican world surrounds the recently adopted statement of belief by FiFNA (Forward in Faith North America for those who aren't nourished on the Anglican alphabet soup), the Anglo-Catholic organisation. The point of controversy is #8, which affirms that the (first) Seven Ecumenical Councils are in fact "ecumenical …
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The Most Sensible Response of the Churches to Same-Sex Civil Marriage
It is to pitch officiating civil marriages altogether, as the Sikhs in the UK are being advised: Sikh temples have been advised to halt all civil marriage ceremonies on their premises to protect them from possible legal challenges for refusing to conduct same-sex weddings. It is the first example of a religious group altering its …
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