God

Exploring the nature, character, and attributes of God revealed through Scripture. This category examines God's existence, omnipotence, omniscience, holiness, justice, mercy, and love. Includes studies on God's names and titles, His relationship to creation and humanity, how He reveals Himself through Scripture and creation, and theological reflection on knowing and experiencing God through Jesus Christ.

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God

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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
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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

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

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

"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

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

The Origin of the Universe

Scripture starts by highlighting God's action: "In the beginning God created." It assumes His existence, stating that the universe is neither eternal nor born of chance, but rather the intentional act of a personal God who existed before creation.

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17 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Davidic Covenant

"'Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.'" — 2 Samuel 7:16 (NASB) The Royal Covenant The Davidic Covenant is the royal covenant — God's promise to establish an eternal dynasty through the lineage of David. It

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10 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The New Covenant

The New Covenant, established by Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, fulfills all previous covenants: the Seed crushing the serpent (Adamic), blessing all nations (Abrahamic), law written on hearts (Mosaic), and an eternal throne (Davidic).

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Abrahamic Covenant

"And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families

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12 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Noahic Covenant

"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth." — Genesis 9:11 (NASB) The First Explicit Covenant The Noahic Covenant is the first use of

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Mosaic Covenant

"'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'" — Exodus 19:

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10 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Adamic Covenant

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel." — Genesis 3:15 (NASB) Covenant in Scripture What Is a Covenant? ‎בְּרִית (bĕrît; BDB 136;

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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The Trinity

To speak of "God" biblically is not to speak of an abstract divine monad — it is to speak of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in their eternal, relational unity. The Trinity is not an addendum to the doctrine of God; it is the doctrine of God as revealed in Scripture.

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23 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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