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Holy Spirit

A collection of 13 posts

Wondering Over Signs and Wonders

This is a great guest piece from the awesome Suzanne Titkemeyer. She used to be a fellow Patheoser and has guested a piece detailing a recent triggering from a (completely insane) video she saw. She has moved to Costa Rica, and you can check out her YouTube channel about her

Biblical Exegesis

The Resurrection Belief Supervening on the Holy Trinity Belief

As most of you already know, I am writing a book on the Resurrection of Jesus, looking critically at the historical and theological claims involved. I wrote this aside section to highlight that without a coherent or working understanding of the Holy Trinity, the belief in a (Trinitarian) resurrection is

Trinity in the Spotlight: The Son of God, Begotten, Not Made.

Trinity in the Spotlight: The Son of God, Begotten, Not Made.

At the heart of the Nicene Creed are these words: “And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the

Biblical Exegesis

The Resurrection Debunked: The Empty Tomb

As mentioned in my two previous posts, it is that time of year again where the Resurrection of Jesus requires a thorough going over. Here it continues. There are three aspects to the debunking of the Resurrection: 1) The Gospels are not reliable sources of information; they are poor quality

Faith and Facts

Memes are dangerous things to think too deeply about because they are, more often than not, clickbaity things designed entirely for particular audiences, either to rile them up or make them feel smug. But they can also promote some thought. Here's one that I have recently seen: This

The Holy Trinity Is Incoherent #2 – Penal Substitution Theory

The other day, I wrote a piece on the general incoherence of the Holy Trinity from a logical and philosophical point of view, taking into account existence properties and the like. Some years back, on this topic when posting my original pieces, I even got to slugging it out with

Propositional content of the inner witness of God

How many times do we hear Christians claiming that they have had direct experience of God as a self-authenticating inner witness? It is pretty common as a debate closer. William Lane Craig famously uses it, as in here:

God's characteristics

God lied or knowingly deceived

Another little piece from my friend Julian Haydon. This one succinctly documents the issue that God seems to have entirely changed his revelation and theological scenario, if you will, from the OT to the NT. The same can be said for the soul, heaven and hell: GOD LIED OR KNOWINGLY

The Holy Trinity as Incoherent #2 - Penal Substitution Theory

Some weeks back I wrote a piece on the general incoherence of the Holy Trinity from a logical and philosophical point of view, taking into account existence properties and the like. In this post I want to return to the subject, though to look at it from a theological perspective.

God's characteristics

Slugging out the incoherence of the Trinity

Gah! I posted my Trinity piece with some alterations on John Loftus' Debunking Christianity where I used to be a more full-time contributor. It was picked up by some Catholic chap who tried to critique it, except that he really didn't deal with the substantive points.

The Holy Trinity as incoherent #1

The Holy Trinity has had a problematic history, partly evidenced by point of fact that theologians still don't agree on how it works, and partly seen from its ex post facto evolution, shoehorned into the scant evidence of the biblical texts. From Ignatius of Antioch onwards we see development of th

God's characteristics

The Trinity - bad analogies

Thanks again to Andy Schueler for finding this. Good way of showing that those oft-used analogies to describe the Trinity are in fact highly problematic. I have worked in Catholic schools where these have been commonplace. http://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw The Trinity remains one of the most nonsensical notions of

God's characteristics

William Lane Craig's self-authenticating witness of the Holy Spirit well critiqued

H/T John Loftus at DC. http://youtu.be/Mh7JjeakfjI The source used, the interview with William Lane Craig, is one which has done the rounds, and one with which I have taken issue before (on my old blog). Good to see it taken to task by Matt McCormick (I