“I give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise;” (Psalm 138:1 ESV) This contradicts Isaiah’s statement (Isaiah 45:5) that there are “no elohim” but the LORD. To get around this the Jewish translators of the Greek Old Testament substituted “gods” with “angels” in this verse – […]
What is the “two powers of heaven” idea and is it scriptural?
This idea was mainly promoted by a 1977 book ‘Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism’ by the American Jewish scholar of religion Alan F. Segal. In his book he proposed that some early references in rabbinic texts were directed against beliefs of Jewish Christians and Gnostics. Segal’s thesis was heavily […]
Will Christ judge the living as well as the resurrected when he returns?
Many of the Bible verses about the day of judgement at the return of Christ do not specify whether the context is the living or the resurrected. Or both together. But it is clear that both will be judged: And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the […]
Who killed Goliath, David or Elhanan?
This is a Hebrew textual question. The Masoretic text of 2 Samuel 21:19 is missing the words the brother of. The context of 2 Samuel 21 shows that this is a different event and time and that it refers to the brother of Goliath. Therefore David killed Goliath and Elhanan later killed Goliath’s brother. 1 Chronicles 20:5 confirms […]
Where did Paul get the names Jannes and Jambres from in 2 Timothy 3:8?
The answer is taken from an article in Tidings magazine. Series: Not Giving heed to Jewish fables. (3) Jannes and Jambres What does “Three kings carrying gifts” suggest to us? Obviously the birth of our Lord, even though every Christadelphian child knows full well that the Magi were not kings, and the Bible does not say […]
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 […]
This is the name by which he will be called…the Lord our Righteousness. (Jeremiah 23:6)
This is the name by which he will be called…the Lord our Righteousness. (Jeremiah 23:6) See the answer on Biblical Unitarian website here .
In Psalm 110:1 is “my Lord” Adonai (God) or adoni (human lord)?
The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet” (NIV) We’ll defer here to a very helpful comment from the Biblical Unitarian website: Trinitarian commentators frequently argue that “my Lord” in this verse is the Hebrew word adonai, another name for God, and […]
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, […]