Blogs I won't have time to read (1)

Here's a smiley guy doing a PhD at Bob Jones University who writes graciously on a wide variety of theological topics. I always though BJU was a bit backward, but that was clearly prejudice!

Suggestive posts with links to follow up on NT Wright, Islam's God and the Trinity, the Hitchens-Wilson debate (great reading) and much more besides.

Just another blog I wish I could emulate not to mention have time to read!

The real Hellenists

were not those who came up with the doctrine of the Trinity, for that doctrine explodes Hellenistic philosophy. See Peter Leithart's thoughts on that subject - always fascinating and provocative. And striking a blow against the all-too-easy Dan Brown style dismissal of orthodox doctrines as merely 'Greek' influences on a whatever-you-please touchy-feely Jesus movement.

interesting

The Trinity. Why it is better than the alternatives (1 of 1,000,000,000...)

Solitary God = no good whatsoever.

A challenge to JWs, Muslims and Unitarians everywhere.

Yes Bilezikian

Thus, one need only go three verses into the Bible to discover what is amply taught in the rest of Scripture, especially in the New Testament, that God is presented as a Tri-unity of divine entities existing as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the eternal community of oneness from whom all other communities derive life and meaning. Like Christians, Jews and Muslims also believe in one God. However, because their God is one person within one being, he is the prisoner of his own limitation. Frozen within the singularity of his own transcendency, he can never experience community. Not so for the God revealed by Jesus Christ. Although one being, he is eternally three persons within oneness. He values community supremely because he experiences the dynamics and snergy of three in one. Thus when he creates he creates community.

Gilbert Bilezikian, Community 101: Reclaiming the Local Church as Community of Oneness (Zondervan 1997), pp. 17-18