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Was God the Son merely close friends with Jesus?

December 14th, 200909:58 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

Thus far we have been considering the logical puzzle of how an omniscient God could possibly become a human being. The basic problem we face is one of incompossibility of properties: i.e. there are many properties that Christians believe God exemplifies of necessity which are incompatible with attributes human beings exemplify. (Note I haven't yet ...
All I want for Christmas is … a coherent account of the incarnation

December 08th, 200901:22 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. (John 1:14, The Message) At the core of Christian faith is the doctrine of the incarnation according to which God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, incarnated and became the man Jesus Christ. But what does it mean to say that God became man? Could this really be tr...
Does the Trinity make sense (and does it matter)?

August 05th, 200902:25 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

The doctrine of the Trinity -- the doctrine that the one God is three distinct and equally divine persons -- stands at the center of Christian confession. Indeed, the doctrine has long been confessed as the foundation stone of Christian orthodoxy, and ideally also the heartbeat of Christian piety. But even so, it also represents what appears to be ...

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