Author: Richard

HERESY SERIES: PART 8 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: The orthodox Christian belief is that God consists of a single essence and three persons. We tend to take this for granted, but the Bible (like many other things) does not specifically teach this. Non-trinitarians like the Socinians cite verses like Mt. 24:36 Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 7 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: What is easier to understand theologically, a single God consisting of three persons or a single-person God that can present Himself in three different ways? What are the theological problems of a single-person God who presents Himself in three different ways? MONARCHIANISM is Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 6 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: God is infinite. Humans are finite. If Christ is both fully divine and fully human, Christ must be both fully infinite and fully finite at the same time. Isn’t this a logical contradiction? If not, how can something be both finite and infinite Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 5 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: After Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, He appeared to Paul. Paul writes in Gal 1:11-12: “[T]he gospel which was preached by me is not of human invention. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 4 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: Does is ever seem like God in the Old Testament sometimes exerts His wrath disproportionately? Consider Passover, where God goes from house to house, systematically killing the firstborn of all non-Jewish children. Does this seem to be something that the loving and forgiving Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 3 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: John 3:16 famously reads, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son” (NKJV). The phrase “only begotten” (Greek monogenés) is also used to describe Isaac in Hebrews 11:17: “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 2 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] QUESTION: The Gnostic heresy believes that there is a “divine spark” of goodness within everyone. The Pelagian heresy believes that mankind is not corrupted by original sin and can therefore live a sin-free life. Do you think that non-Christians have a “divine spark” of Read more

HERESY SERIES: PART 1 [Click here for the companion YouTube video] Question: Which of the Four Natural Heresies do you think Christians today are most likely to find alluring or true? Background: Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) was a Prussian pastor, professor, and theologian who made significant contributions to numerous fields of study including philosophy, theology, and Read more