Tag: Justin Martyr

On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos

On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos

Lord Jesus Christ Reigns A response concerning creation, time, and the doctrine of the Logos — addressed to the Jehovah's Witness reader. Article I of VI I. The Question, and What Is Conceded A response that gives the opponent nothing has not engaged the opponent. The case for the deity of Christ does not require … Continue reading On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos

One Glory, Two Visions: John 12:41 and the Doxa of the Son

One Glory, Two Visions: John 12:41 and the Doxa of the Son

John 12:41 makes two claims that together carry the Trinitarian argument: that Isaiah saw Jesus's glory, and that the glory John attributes to Jesus elsewhere in his Gospel is pre-temporal Shekinah possessed παρὰ σοί before creation. Even granting the unitarian referent of Isaiah 52–53, the Servant's glorification read through John 17:5 is restoration of co-possessed eternal glory, not the elevation of a creature.

The Glory Isaiah Saw

The Glory Isaiah Saw

A Catholic engagement with the published unitarian case for John 12:41. The grammar is granted; the lexical range is granted; and the pre-Nicene chain — Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen — is set out from primary sources. The glory Isaiah saw is the glory of the eternal Son, and the glory the rulers refused.

Genesis 1:26 and the “Let Us”: What the Church Actually Taught — A Response to the Divine Council Reading

Genesis 1:26 and the “Let Us”: What the Church Actually Taught — A Response to the Divine Council Reading

A Catholic and Eastern Orthodox response to Jimmy Akin's Divine Council reading of Genesis 1:26 — from Dei Verbum, the Fathers, the Talmud, and the Targums.

Abraham’s 318 Men: The Cross and the Name of Jesus Hidden in a Number

Abraham’s 318 Men: The Cross and the Name of Jesus Hidden in a Number

The number 318 appears once in the Bible — in the count of Abraham's trained servants in Genesis 14:14. Written in Greek as Tau-Iota-Eta, it encodes the Cross of Christ and the Name of Jesus. And it was present at the Council of Nicaea. A patristic investigation with all primary sources verified.