Apologetics

Defending the Christian faith through reasoned argument and biblical evidence. This category explores responses to common objections against Christianity, philosophical foundations for belief, the reliability of Scripture, and thoughtful engagement with competing worldviews. Apologetics equips believers to give reason for the hope within them.

23 posts
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

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

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

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

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

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
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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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

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?

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?

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

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

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 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

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