What I want to do is annoy – I mean interest – y’all in looking once more at our old doctrine – you know – the one where Jesus pre-existed as “the God of the Old Testament.” Most of you, no doubt...

Divine titles are applied to Jesus (Jn 20:28; Tit 2:10; Tit 2:13), and though some of these references are controversial, calling the Messiah by such titles is not unknown in Judaism (for an example o...

My church used to teach (wrongly I believe) that "the God of the Old Testament" had been incarnated as Jesus Christ. But we were not trinitarians — this because we held the Father and the Son to be t...

Noah prophesied that God (the preferred reading, I believe) "shall dwell in the tents of Shem " (Gn 9:27). And so it is interesting that it was exactly 50 jubilee cycles from the birth of Shem to the beginning of Messiah's ministry (according to my chronology at least) when God's Son came to dwell in the tents of Shem. And it was in Shem's jubilee of jubilees that he did so!

You ARE a soul (Gn 2:7) and if all goes well you WILL BE spirit (Jn 3:6; 1Cor 15:45). What does this mean?First we need to understand how soul and spirit are distinguished in the Bible (Hb 4:12). Th...

We do not exist prior to our human birth in that there is no consciousness -- there is no body and there is no soul. But we do exist in the mind of God -- this is the germ or seed by which he begets ...

God's purpose is to establish his light upon his Holy Hill (Ps 43:3; Mt 5:15) and the devil's purpose is to prevent this. God's purpose is to attract the nations (Is 2:2; Mic 4:1) and the devil's pur...

This paper was written in the winter of 1978 for a Hebrew class taught by my dear teacher of blessed memory Rabbi Myron Kinberg.

Who and what is God? Surely a subject all the libraries of the world cannot do justice to ― the absolute profundity and mystery of it all! ― yet there is this simple matter to address: Our commenly h...

Resting on the millennial Sabbath -- have you ever wondered what that might mean?The noun Sabbath (שבת šabbāt) implies a 'ceasing', and though this word does not occur in the creation account, its ver...