This page is an index/map of every page on this site.
1) Home/Introduction
2) Stating the Problem: Coexistent, Mutually Exclusive Categories
a) God and Man are Mutually Exclusive Categories
b) Jewish Categories of Thought
c) The Jewish Conception of God and the Messiah
1) Forward to the RSV
d) The Sermons of Peter
e) The Sermons of Paul
f) The Silence is Deafening
3) Arguments Concerning the Scriptures That Seem to Say Jesus was God
a) [Jesus]...existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a grab, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men...(Php 2:7).
b) God was manifested in [the] flesh, justified in [the] spirit, seen by heavenly angels, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory. (1Ti 3:16)
c) The first man was from the earth, earthly, the second the Lord from heaven (1Co 15:47).
d) ...of whom is the Christ (in terms of the flesh), who is God over all, blessed in the ages-- Amen. (Ro 9:5).
e) Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (John 8:58).
1) I Am (number 1)
2) I Am (number 2)
3) I Am (number 3)
4) I Am (number 4)
5) I Am (number 5)
f) And now glorify me, You, Father, by Yourself, with the glory I had PRIOR to the world, with You. (John 17:5).
g) And Thomas replied and said to Him, My Lord and my God. (John 20:28)
1) A More Detailed Argument
h) We declare to you the Eternal Life, which was before the Father and was revealed to us (1Jo 1:2).
i) Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us. (Mt 1:23).
j) And his name shall be called...Mighty God Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. (Isa 9:6)
k) Out of you [Bethlehem] he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth (from exodoi > proceedings) are from of old, from everlasting. (Micah 5:2).
l) For this Melchizedek...[someone that was] fatherless, motherless, without ancestry, having neither a beginning of days nor an end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in the perpetual. (Heb 7:1-3)
m) I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. (Rev 1:8)
n) Jesus accepted worship, therefore he is God.
o) But of the Son he says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom...And, "Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands (Heb 1:8, 10).
1) A More Detailed Argument
a) Examples
p) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...and the Word became flesh...(John 1:1-14)
1) John's Intended Audience
a) Why Does John Translate Hebrew/Aramaic Words into Greek?
1) The Children of God Scattered Abroad - Who Are They?
b) When Was John Written?
2) Section II: Arguments from the Old Testament and John's Hebraic paradigm.
3) Section III: Writings from the Disciples of the Apostle John
a) Ignatius
4) Section IV: Observations on the role of Greek philosophical thought in the history of Christian theology, especially as it pertains to John 1.
q) Some Thoughts on the Virgin Birth
r) Concerning THE Prophet
s) Malak: The Messenger-Representative
4) Illustrations of the Differences Between Greek and Hebraic Categories of Thought
a) The Nature of God
b) God's Place in Time and Eternity
c) The Nature of Man: Is the Human Soul Inherently Immortal?
1) Luke 23:43: Jesus, when hanging on the cross said, "Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise."
2) 2 Corinthians 5:8: "...absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord."
a) NT Wright on the Resurrection Body
3) Philippians 1:23: "...to depart and be with Christ..."
4) Luke 16:19-31: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
5) 2 Kings 2:11: "And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven."
6) Mathew 17: the transfiguration - Moses and Elijah appear.
7) Genesis 5:24, Hebrews 11:5: "Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." - "By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was found no more because God had taken him."
8) 1 Samuel 28: The medium at En-dor raises Samuel for Saul.
9) Revelation 6:9-11: The souls of the martyrs under the alter.
10) 2 Corinthians 12:2-4: Whether in the body or out of the body
11) Some thoughts about Greek and Hebrew paradigms
12) A Personal Testimony Concerning the Hebraic View of Death
d) The Structure and Function of the Church
1) Why Do We Gather as a Church? The Bible's Answer as Compared to Modern Practice
2) The Almost Inevitable Ruin of Every Minister...And How to Avoid It
5) Contact Page
