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Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied
Apologetics

Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied

Having walked both titles through the whole New Testament, the question that remains is how they fit together in one person — and what breaks when the answer is gotten wrong. The historic confession is that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, two natures united in one person without

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11 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return
Apologetics

Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return

Everything in the second half of the Son of Man material bends toward one scene: a figure coming on the clouds, seated on a throne of glory, with the nations gathered before Him. It is the scene Jesus quoted to the high priest when He was under oath and could

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10 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself
Apologetics

Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself

Son of Man is the name Jesus used for Himself more than eighty times, and almost no one else in the New Testament uses it of Him. That asymmetry is worth sitting with. It was His chosen self-designation, and it is the one the crowds found hardest to pin

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 3 - The Son of God - Confessed, Contested, and Sent
Apologetics

Part 3 - The Son of God - Confessed, Contested, and Sent

The second half of the Son of God material moves from declaration to reaction. A demon names Him correctly and is silenced. Peter confesses Him and is called blessed. The authorities hear the claim and reach for stones. Paul, writing to Rome and to Galatia, sets the title inside the

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 2 - The Son of God - From the Annunciation to the Throne
Apologetics

Part 2 - The Son of God - From the Annunciation to the Throne

The title Son of God does not originate with the New Testament. Israel is called God's son; so are angels, and so is the Davidic king, and any account of what the title means when applied to Jesus has to reckon with why His use of it got

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 1 - Two Titles, One Person
Apologetics

Part 1 - Two Titles, One Person

Ask most churchgoers what the difference is between calling Jesus the Son of God and calling Him the Son of Man, and the answer comes back quickly: one refers to His divine nature, the other to His human nature. It is tidy, it is memorable, and it does not survive

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4 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ
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Apologetics

Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." — John 1:14 (NASB 1995) Introduction Both titles Scripture gives to Jesus of Nazareth — Son of God and Son of

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2 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Another Jesus and Another Spirit - Weighing the God of the Quran by Scripture's Own Test
Islam

Another Jesus and Another Spirit - Weighing the God of the Quran by Scripture's Own Test

The claim that the god of Islam is not merely a different concept of God but the direct work of the adversary is one of the oldest charges Christians have laid against Islam, and it is one of the most frequently mishandled. The usual version of the argument assembles a

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41 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 8 - Errors About the Deity of Christ - Arianism, Islam, Modalism, and More
Apologetics

Part 8 - Errors About the Deity of Christ - Arianism, Islam, Modalism, and More

Every major denial of the deity of Christ in Christian history falls into one of a small number of patterns, and the patterns repeat. A movement either subordinates the Son to the status of a creature, collapses the distinction between Father and Son into a single person wearing masks, or

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 7 - Revelation and the Deity of Christ - Worship at the Throne
Apologetics

Part 7 - Revelation and the Deity of Christ - Worship at the Throne

Revelation is where the case reaches its conclusion, because Revelation is where we are shown what heaven actually does. Twice in this book John falls at the feet of an angel to worship, and twice the angel stops him cold: Do not do that. Worship God. Angels do not accept

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 6 - The Epistles and the Deity of Christ
Apologetics

Part 6 - The Epistles and the Deity of Christ

The letters of the New Testament were written to congregations, not to theologians, and they assume the deity of Christ rather than argue for it. That is what makes them such powerful evidence. Paul does not defend the claim that Jesus is God over all; he mentions it in passing

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16 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 5 - The Synoptic Gospels and Acts - Jesus Claims and Receives What Belongs to God
Apologetics

Part 5 - The Synoptic Gospels and Acts - Jesus Claims and Receives What Belongs to God

A common objection holds that the deity of Christ is a late development, present in John but absent from the earlier Synoptic Gospels. The objection does not survive contact with the text. Matthew opens by naming Jesus Immanuel, God with us. Mark records Him forgiving sins in the second chapter,

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12 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 4 - The Gospel of John and the Deity of Christ
Apologetics

Part 4 - The Gospel of John and the Deity of Christ

John wrote his Gospel with a stated purpose: that readers would believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and have life in His name. He opens by identifying the Word as God and closes with a disciple falling before the risen Christ and calling Him my Lord and

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18 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 3 - YHWH Texts Applied to Jesus - The Old Testament's Boldest Claim
Apologetics

Part 3 - YHWH Texts Applied to Jesus - The Old Testament's Boldest Claim

There is a category of Old Testament passages more striking than messianic prophecy, and it is the one anti-Trinitarian arguments have the hardest time absorbing. In these texts, YHWH speaks about Himself — declaring that He alone is first and last, that His glory will not be shared, that His

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9 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 2 - Messianic Prophecy and the Deity of Christ - Seven Old Testament Texts
Apologetics

Part 2 - Messianic Prophecy and the Deity of Christ - Seven Old Testament Texts

Long before Bethlehem, the Hebrew prophets described a coming figure in terms no Israelite could have applied to a merely human king. A child would be born who bears the name Mighty God. A ruler would come out of Bethlehem whose goings forth are from eternity. A king would be

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 1 - The Case for the Deity of Christ - How Scripture Makes the Claim
Apologetics

Part 1 - The Case for the Deity of Christ - How Scripture Makes the Claim

Christianity stands or falls on a single question: who is Jesus of Nazareth? If He is a prophet, a teacher, or a moral example, then Christianity is one religion among many and its central act of worship is idolatry. If He is God in human flesh, then every other question

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Jesus is God - A Series on the Deity of Christ
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Apologetics

Jesus is God - A Series on the Deity of Christ

"Thomas answered and said to Him, 'My Lord and my God!'" — John 20:28 (NASB 1995) The deity of Jesus Christ — the confession that the man from Nazareth who walked the roads of Galilee was crucified under Pontius Pilate and rose from the dead on the

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4 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Paradise or the Face of God
Islam

Paradise or the Face of God

This post takes up what both Christianity and Islam say lies on the other side of death, and then draws the whole comparison together. Both affirm a literal, bodily resurrection and a real day of judgment — a genuine point of agreement against the many worldviews that deny both. What separates

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Can Good Deeds Outweigh Your Sin?
Islam

Can Good Deeds Outweigh Your Sin?

This post takes the two doctrines, Christianity vs Islam, together, in that order, because the diagnosis determines the cure. What a religion says is wrong with human beings decides in advance what it can offer as a remedy. Islam teaches that every person is born in a state of fitrah

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Has the Bible Been Corrupted?
Islam

Has the Bible Been Corrupted?

Behind every doctrinal disagreement between Christianity and Islam stands a prior question: which book tells the truth, and on what basis? Islam teaches that the Qur'an confirms the earlier scriptures while correcting and superseding them, and that the Bible Christians hold today has been altered from what Allah

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Christianity vs Hebrew Israelites
Hebrew Israelite

Christianity vs Hebrew Israelites

Hebrew Israelism's emotional center is Deuteronomy 28 — an identity forged in the recognition of one's own suffering in the text. That recognition is not foolish, and the suffering was real.

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22 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Holy Spirit an Angel?
Islam

Is the Holy Spirit an Angel?

Both Christianity and Islam use the phrase "the Holy Spirit," and that shared vocabulary conceals one of the widest gaps between them. In mainstream Islamic belief, the Holy Spirit is the angel Gabriel — a created being, honored and powerful, but a creature. In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is

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4 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Jesus Islam Cannot Accept
Islam

The Jesus Islam Cannot Accept

Of all the points where Christianity and Islam diverge, none is sharper than the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Islam honors him highly — virgin-born, called the Messiah, a worker of miracles by Allah's permission — while insisting he is a created human prophet who was neither divine nor

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is Purgatory Biblical?
Catholicism

Is Purgatory Biblical?

Purgatory is not, in Catholic teaching, a third eternal destiny. That misunderstanding wrecks most Protestant objections before they start. Rome teaches two final destinies — heaven and hell — and holds purgatory to be a temporary condition of purification through which some of the saved pass on their way to heaven. Everyone

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19 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Christianity vs Seventh-day Adventists
Other Religion

Christianity vs Seventh-day Adventists

Mormonism and the Watch Tower deny the Trinity, deny the eternal deity of Christ, and redefine salvation. Seventh-day Adventism affirms all three.

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16 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is Allah the God of the Bible?
Islam

Is Allah the God of the Bible?

This post addresses the most foundational question of all, the one on which every other disagreement between the two faiths ultimately depends: who is God? Islam answers with Tawhid, the absolute and indivisible oneness of Allah. Christianity answers with the Trinity — one God eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Christianity vs Ancient African Kemetic
Kemetic

Christianity vs Ancient African Kemetic

The encounter between Christianity and Kemetic spirituality has two layers, and confusing them produces bad arguments on both sides.

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17 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Nature of Faith
Christianity

The Nature of Faith

Faith is the assurance of hope and belief in the unseen, rooted in knowledge, agreement, and trust in God's unchanging character. Its strength arises from Christ's word, akin to a court evaluating testimony—fully persuaded by witness.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Example of Faith
Christianity

Example of Faith

The examples of faith turn definition into biography: Abel's worship, Enoch's walk, Noah's weather-defying obedience, Abraham's leaving-waiting-surrendering, Moses' re-priced ledger, Rahab's outsider conversion, the centurion's word-confidence, the Canaanite mother's holy stubbornness.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Money and Stewardship
Christianity

Money and Stewardship

Stewardship's doctrine in one line each: God owns everything; we manage on trust. Money is a rival god — it cannot be co-served with God, and loving it roots every sort of evil.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
What is Biblical Love?
Christianity

What is Biblical Love?

Love is the Bible's supreme ethic because it is first the Bible's account of God's own nature: "God is love" — not merely loving, but love in His essence.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Names of God
Christianity

Names of God

Each name of God is not arbitrary — it is a disclosure of who He is and how He relates to His people. The study of God's names is the study of God's self-revelation.

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22 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Fall of Satan - Origin of Evil
Satan

The Fall of Satan - Origin of Evil

The existence of evil in a world created by a perfectly good, all-powerful God raises fundamental questions. While the Bible doesn’t provide a philosophical treatise on theodicy, it presents a consistent narrative about the origin of evil, offering both intellectual coherence and pastoral guidance.

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22 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Humanity - Imago Dei
Creation

Humanity - Imago Dei

Humanity alone is created in God's image, making humans unique as God-like beings with inherent dignity, responsible stewardship of creation, and the ability to have a meaningful relationship with God.

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19 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The New Heaven & New Earth
Christianity

The New Heaven & New Earth

The Bible does not end with souls floating up to heaven; it ends with heaven coming down to a renewed earth. The story that opens with "God created the heavens and the earth" Genesis 1:1 closes with "a new heaven and a new earth" Revelation 21:1 — creation not discarded but reborn.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Final Judgment
Christ

The Final Judgment

The crucified and resurrected Son administers judgment, which either completes salvation or confirms a rejection previously chosen: the believer, judged in his Substitute, proceeds to reward evaluation; the rejecter meets his denied word as judge.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
What is the Millennium?
Christianity

What is the Millennium?

"Millennium" (Latin *mille* + *annus*, "thousand years") names the period of Revelation 20:1–7, where "a thousand years" occurs six times in seven verses: Satan bound, the martyrs raised to reign with Christ, and Satan released at the end for a final rebellion.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Sheol, Hades, and the Intermediate State
Hell

Sheol, Hades, and the Intermediate State

The "intermediate state" is the condition of human beings between death and resurrection.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Faith vs Works
Christianity

Faith vs Works

Paul and James emphasize that justification before God comes through faith alone, independent of works. This faith, granted to the ungodly who believe, eliminates boasting.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Eternity
Eternity

Eternity

Eternity in Scripture reflects God's eternal nature, unbound by time, and addresses human destiny. He grants eternal life or consigns to loss, as seen in Ecclesiastes 3:11. This study examines the concept of eternity in both Testaments, God's eternality, and the believer's everlasting future.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Doubt and Unbelief
Faith

Doubt and Unbelief

Scripture makes a distinction popular religion often misses: doubt — the believer's struggle, questions, and wavering within a real relationship with God — and unbelief — the settled refusal to trust Him.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Return of Christ
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Christianity

The Return of Christ

No doctrine is more pervasively asserted in the New Testament than the personal, bodily, visible return of Jesus Christ — referenced hundreds of times across nearly every book.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Rapture
Christianity

The Rapture

The "rapture" is the event in which living believers are suddenly transformed and caught up together with the resurrected dead in Christ to meet the Lord at His coming.

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9 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Humility & Pride
Christianity

Humility & Pride

Pride and humility are not two virtues on a list; they are the two postures beneath every other virtue and vice — the creature's stance toward its Creator.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Tribulation
Christianity

The Tribulation

"The tribulation" designates the unparalleled period of distress Scripture places immediately before the return of Christ — Daniel's "time of distress such as never occurred" (Daniel 12:1), Jeremiah's "time of Jacob's distress" (Jeremiah 30:7), and Jesus' "great tribulation" (Matthew 24:21).

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Justice & Righteousness
Christianity

Justice & Righteousness

"Justice and righteousness" is one of the Old Testament's most frequent word-pairs, a virtual hendiadys for rightly-ordered life.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Sex and the Bible
Sex

Sex and the Bible

Biblical sexual ethics is design-shaped: male and female made in God's image, joined by God into a public, permanent, one-flesh covenant that celebrates sex within and excludes it without — because the union means something (covenant) that porneia falsifies.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Angel of the Lord
Christ

The Angel of the Lord

The church acknowledges the Son's presence in the older covenant, as He was born as Jesus, fulfilling the promise to save His people from their sins when the fullness of time came (Galatians 4:4; Matthew 1:21).

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Jesus in the Old Testament
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Christ

Jesus in the Old Testament

Jesus makes numerous appearances throughout the Old Testament, but he does not appear in the same manner or by the same name as he does in the New Testament. Nevertheless, He is present in the Old Testament.

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39 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Resurrection of the Dead
Christianity

The Resurrection of the Dead

The Bible's hope for the dead is not the soul's escape from the body but the body's resurrection from the grave.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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