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Three Biblical Proofs that the Holy Spirit Is a Person Not a Thing

June 3, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Holy Spirit, person, personhood, Pneumatology, Trinity

What is the Holy Spirit? Is the Spirit an impersonal force like electricity or gravity, or is He a person? Traditionally, the early Christians concluded the Holy Spirit was a person. But is there any Biblical evidence to support that conclusion? I think there is. Of course, it depends on how you define the word

Jesus Is Not the Father

July 8, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Trinity

I recently heard a worship leader, in a moment of extemporaneous prayer, say, “Jesus is the Father and the Spirit and the Son!” I’m going to chalk that little bit of heresy to (1) the leader being young; (2) theological education being low both within and without the churches; and (3) the teaching of Trinitarian

No Trinity, No Salvation?

August 16, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Salvation, Trinity

Question: Are “Christians” who don’t understand or believe the traditional doctrine of the Trinity really Christians? Answer: That’s a good question. I take it you’re asking whether they have eternal life. The traditional answer would be “No.” I believe the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and historic Protestant Churches would say you have to believe the

Is Jesus Our Father (Isaiah 9:6)?

January 17, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Isaiah 9:6, Jesus as Everlasting Father, Trinity

“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). My sister asked me whether I thought songs which call Jesus our Father are incorrect. If God

Jesus Wants You to Think! (Luke 18:18-19)

July 23, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Deity of Christ, Socratic Method, Trinity

Jesus wants people to think. He especially wants them to think more deeply about Who He is. Consider Luke 18:18-19: Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?  So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.” An anti-Trinitarian person

Is the Godman a Contradiction

May 18, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arianism, attributes, deity, godman, hypostatic union, Michaelangelo, Moses, Trinity, Unitarianism

Is it a contradiction to say that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man? I was talking to a fellow believer who said it was a contradiction, but that he believed it anyway. I tried to explain why it wasn’t a contradiction at all, and that if it were, he literally couldn’t believe it.