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What is Tartarus?

Tartarus occurs as ‘the deep’ in the Septuagint of Job 40:20 about the mythical beast Behemoth, and again in 41:32 (numbered 41:24 in LXX) about the lair of another mythical beast Leviathan. 20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. (Job 40:20 LXX ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ, […]

Did Jesus read “Yahweh” out loud in the synagogue at Nazareth?

Answer : The answer to this question is clearly no, since the passage (in Luke 4:18 ) records Jesus reading “Lord”, in accordance with Jewish custom from the Maccabean period onward and then states “all spoke well of him” (v22). So evidently Jesus did nothing in his reading of Isaiah to upset the synagogue. The […]

Was Jesus totally dead, or just his body?

Question : Was Jesus totally dead, or just his body? On the face of it this question is so simple, and so important, and so basic. And yet answers to this question will depend on what someone first believes about death, and also secondly on what someone believes about who Christ is. Therefore, broadly speaking, […]

“if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord…” – Is Romans 10:9-10 a sufficient creed or statement of faith?

“if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord…” – Is Romans 10:9-10 a sufficient creed or statement of faith? . Taken on its own the phrase commencing “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord..” (Romans 10:9-10) would appear a sufficient creed or statement of faith. But then anything taken on […]

God twice sent an evil spirit on Saul (1 Samuel 16:14, 19:9). Why would God send an evil spirit on someone?

  God in charge of illness in the Old Testament This passage is famous as an illustration of how the Old Testament and the New Testament apparently have different theologies about mental illness. In the Old Testament all illnesses and sicknesses are strictly under the power of God. “‘See now that I, even I, am […]

What about language applied to God in the Old Testament but applied to Jesus in Revelation?

What about language applied to God in the Old Testament but applied to Jesus in Revelation? This is a quite frequent question in discussions between Trinitarians and Oneness (UPCI) on one side and non-Trinitarians, including biblical unitarians (principally Christadelphians). Why would language exclusive to God in the Old Testament be applied to Jesus in the […]