I tried to get through this book and I just couldn’t finish it. For all the reasons you mentioned it just seems so unbiblical, and anti-gospel and frankly ethnocentrist. I kept thinking to myself “Is this what Jesus died for? This was his dying vision?” No way. Can’t wait to read Jesus and the Powers.

Well, Call me an addict to High Christology ❤😂 "My utmost for His Highest" 😇 Maranatha 🙏🙏🙏

Adoptionist Christology or similar views were among the earliest Christian understandings of Jesus' nature and relationship to God. In the 1st-3rd centuries CE, various Christian groups held different perspectives on Jesus' divinity, humanity, and the role of the Holy Spirit. Adoptionist or Dynamic Monarchianist views were likely prevalent among early Jewish-Christian communities, who emphasized Jesus' human nature and his empowerment by the Holy Spirit. This perspective was also influenced by Jewish traditions and scripture. Some early Church Fathers, like Theophilus of Antioch (c. 180 CE) and Hippolytus of Rome (c. 200 CE), held Adoptionist views. However, as Christianity evolved and theologians like Origen (c. 250 CE) and Athanasius (c. 350 CE) developed more sophisticated Trinitarian theories, Adoptionism gradually became less prominent. The Council of Nicaea (325 CE) and the Council of Constantinople (381 CE) solidified the orthodox Trinitarian doctrine, affirming Jesus as fully human and fully divine, co-eternal with God the Father. While Adoptionism wasn't entirely eliminated, it became a minority view, and Trinitarianism became the dominant understanding of God and Christ in Christianity. Despite this, Adoptionist Christology remains an important part of Christian history and theology, offering insights into the diverse perspectives of early Christians.

Your excellent use of humor gave me a belly laugh. Your penetrating analysis and explanation of the text had me standing and cheering.

6:12 This is why I tune in every week, same Bat time, same Bat channel, and enjoy reading your books so much. You use humor in a way that never undercuts either the scholarship or the reverence of the subject.

Maranatha. Marana tha. Mara natha

Thanks

According to Klein Dictionary, מָר, מָרָא (= master, sir) is related to Arab. imrū (= man), al-mar’u (= the man). Thus, Jesus is “The Man”.

I agree that Paul had a "high" Christology because his Jesus was a divine figure for whom Paul (and the rest of the New Testament writers) was waiting. Paul (and they) has no concept of a "returning" Jesus but a Jesus who will appear for the first time. It's just a pity the gospels were placed first and thus obscure what the earliest Christians believed.

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Stop. Baptism is and was never understood as a symbol. You are forcing an interpretation the Catholic Church (not RC) never believed or lived. Western Roman Catholicism and Protestantism and it’s many offshoots have no essence and energies distinction and maintain a created grace, and therefore have no understanding of the uncreated grace of God in theology or practice since bring outside the one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

It was and continues to be a Creed for the one holy Church. The Councils are binding. It’s not open to interpretation. Nobody believed that but the heretics in that time. Scary that Prots think so often as the heretics had.

I would not say.. I am a Christian.. But I would say my religion is..

We do not say Christian.. We say.. Christianity Religion.. Catholic Muslim Jehova Orthodox Budhist Mormon

What is difference from Jewish and Hebrew????????

how about a functional division of labor between Cephas and Paul, agreed upon in the right hand of fellowship, and enacted in Antioch?

Christ was a completion of the law. All the law did was prove that you could not live good enough to be saved or worthy of God. Christ came as promised to complete the law with the ultimate blood sacrifice his own. No theory no maybes no per chancepredicted from the beginning

This channel can not be trusted as a trusted source, as it is clearly biased and makes basic mistakes.

Matthew 5:8-13 :The Faith of the Centurion 5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. 6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.” 7 Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?” 8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.

This is blatantly false. Mark 16:15 states : And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

You don't seem to divide rightly. The most correct cutting of His word is that between the gospel of Jesus and the gospel of the risen Christ. And smack dab in the middle is the most important event in the history of the universe: the cross. Two radically different gospels of to and for two radically different groups who have two radically different destinations. The basics: the Jews, Gentile proselytes, the Circumcisionists/the Gentiles, the nations, the Uncircumcisionists; under law, works/under grace; a terrestrial destination/ a celestial destination. The bride of the Lambkin/the body of Christ. And the two radically different gospels are NOT to be mixed because doing so just causes chaos and confusion and brings great joy to Satan.

Who ate lunch with Abraham?

Yeshua was worshipped as God by his Jewish apostles. You are ignorant of Judaism and the Hebrew scriptures!

An important step has been to recover the diversity of Second Temple Judaism and analyze precisely what Jesus and the apostles were talking about. Looking at the scriptures only through a medieval, or sixteenth century, or modern lens often misses important facets of the gospel message.

Imo, because early Christianity was a mystery cult and had plenty of overlap with the other mysteries. Wouldn't have been too far of a jump. Especially after Paul repackaged it. Feel like there is plenty of source material to back this up, within biblical canon and outside of it. Side note. I do think studying medical sources can really shed light on a lot of NT concepts. ie: Galen, Hippocratis, Asclepious.

From Jewish Jewish to Gentile Gentile

Beautiful 😮

Interesting. Am I correct in concluding that you're using "Jew/Judea/Judaism" and "Israel/land of Israel" more or less interchangeably? Would it therefore be fair to say that you are not persuaded by the recently published work by Jason Staples?

keep up the good work, mike. thanks for everything.

It makes me laugh that you believe this crap over excepting that the west is a evil and filthy place😂😂😂 our “leaders” are religious and strong on there feet

Polycarp wasn't catholic... so don't try to co-opt him.

I am guessing that it is a very important to prove that Christianity never existed in India before the Portuguese, Dutch & British showed up - there was no diaspora of Jews from ME during the first and second temple periods.

God is Sovereign in dynamic omniscience. He is just not a micromanaging tyrant.

What University is this?

This is really outstanding. Up until I realized it was ancient, I thought to myself, "this is a good contemporary Anglican vision statement." If only this were as descriptive of our modern movement as it was to Diognetus. Also looking forward to your treatment of some of the beefier dialogue in 4 Maccabees between Antiochus IV and Eleazar, particularly 5:13 when Antiochus lays a juicy compromise before Eleazar and tempts him with "it's not wrong if you were compelled to do it by your rulers" devil talk.

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you are phylosophers, God born a Son Psalm 110 before this world in heaven, that when the Word became Flesh. He walked in All of the Old Testament and came through Mary in His Flesh. As He got in, He got out. His Body was not of this world Hebrews 9:11-13, John 6:51 (Body from heaven). Study about bodies 1 Corinthians 15:40-50. Jesus never had our physical body. If you make Jesus to a carnal man you are a worshiping creature, not a Creator.

If that voice was AI, it was really good

If you live in Orwell's 1984, you don't know for sure whether you're being watched or not, while you're watching TV. But we surely know that we are watched, regardless of whether we are looking at the screen or not.

Its not meant to be taken literally. It's referring to balancing our masculine traits and our feminine traits. Action and Emotion, yin and yang, etc etc

“Literally” followed by describing something that is in no way the same as the claim. What sort of desperation is required to lie like this? Or is it just inability to comprehend what words actually mean?

No one cares about it anyway

I believe that interpretation is not related to gender. Jesus' response was not specifically directed at males or females in the mentioned text; the context is different.

Hi what about Alexandria?

If presbyterian church didn't exist I'd seriously consider to be anglican.

Lol, wow, Bird is TRASH

I agree with the speaker, not the guy making Trump faces.

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Gospel of Thomas was about building/financing construction of small attached rooms for SINGLE males and mainstream Christianity was based on marrying a Virgin girl, like Jesus's' mother Mary who married Jacob as a Virgin (Virgin Mary). Idea was to house the singles after marrying them first.

Isn’t benevolent righteous kingship the form of government promoted by the Bible? Democracy seems to allow way to many people to try to direct a nation. To many people having a voice in the direction of the nation is not wise…it is like running a church like democracy with the need to vote of everything. It could take 3 months just to rearrange the church worship team because you have to debate and work towards an agreement when the leaders can just make the best decision