Tag: Theophany
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.
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.
The New Testament clearly identifies Jesus as Yahweh—the eternal Creator who made and sustains all things and rules the seas. See the scriptural evidence from John, Colossians, Hebrews, and the walking-on-water theophany.
In this short post, I will present evidence from the Gospel of Mark that clearly identifies Jesus as none other than the God of Israel incarnate. In Mark, Jesus performs two actions that the Hebrew Bible explicitly reserves for YHWH alone: calming the wind and sea with a mere word, and walking on water. 1. … Continue reading The Markan Jesus – The Physical Embodiment and Visible Appearance of Israel’s God
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