I was baptized in the name of Jesus in a small lake on a Sunday in February when I was 23 (in 2001). This happened during my senior year as a college student at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA while I was attending a small spirit-filled church. Although...
Edwin Abbott's entry in Encyclopedia Biblica, Gospels: B. External Evidence (including Papias and Justin Martyr) Encyclopaedia Biblica, Vol II, 1901, Columns 1809-1837 Internet Archive Book Link: https://archive.org/details/CheyneTKEncyclopaediaBiblicaVolIIEToK1901/page/n333/mode/2up Statement of Luke i. The Third Gospel. — Lk. 1:1-4 implies (a) that ’many’ Gospels were current, and perhaps (b) that their diversity...
Abridged book of critical scholarship pertaining to issues with the Gospel of John The Problem of the Fourth Gospel Henry Latimer Jackson, Cambridge [Eng.] : University press, 1918 D.D. of Christ’s College, Cambridge; sometime Hulsean Lecturer; Author of The Fourth Gospel and some recent German Criticism, The Present State of...
Gospel of John vs the Synoptic Gospels Excerpts from 'The Problem of the Fourth Gospel' Henry Latimer Jackson, Cambridge [Eng.]: University press, 1918 Archive Book Link: https://archive.org/details/problemoffourthg00jack/page/n5/mode/2up Now, where objection is raised, the marked peculiarity of the Fourth Gospel is highly accentuated. It is regarded, not as the record of historical...
There are actually several Unitarian interpretations of the prologue of John. These differences have to do with explaining various abstractions in the prologue, and don’t have a bearing on core Unitarian Theology and Christology. John 1 cannot be used as a proof text for Trinitarian dogma, since it can be...
The Historical and Religious Value of the Fourth Gospel (John) Ernest Findlay Scott, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909 General Characteristics: “The message of the Kingdom, which forms the one subject of his teaching in the Synoptic Gospels, falls practically out of sight, and our attention is fixed instead...
Not only did Jesus say, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), he prayed to the Father for those that are his disciples, “that they may be one, even as we are one” (John 17:11) and for those who will believe through their word, “that they may all be...
Love, The Greatest Commandment The greatest commandment is to acknowledge the one God and to love the Lord your God. (Deut 6:4-5) Jesus affirmed that the most important commandment is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your...
