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Reliability of the Text: Mormons and the Old Testament #4
We saw in the first article in this series, “Mormons and the Old Testament Canon,” that the LDS Church accepts the same books in the Old Testament that are in the Jewish canon of Scripture and in the Protestant Old … Continue reading
The KJV and Other Bibles: Mormons and the Old Testament #3
We continue our series on Mormons and the Old Testament by discussing the King James Version (KJV) in Mormonism. The Standard LDS Position Joseph Fielding Smith was the grandson of Hyrum Smith (Joseph Smith’s brother) and the tenth LDS … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
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Pigs in the Parlor: An Amazon Reviews Mystery
Amazon’s ranking of book reviews may be a mystery to many readers. I know it was for me. Take, for example, its ranking of “top reviews” of the infamous book Pigs in the Parlor, which teaches that every Christian has … Continue reading
Lost Books? Mormons and the Old Testament #2
We saw in the first article in this series that the LDS Church accepts the same books in the Old Testament that are in the Jewish canon of Scripture and in the Protestant Old Testament. Yet they deny the inspiration … Continue reading
Mormons and the Old Testament Canon: Mormons and the Old Testament #1
This article is the first in a projected series on Mormonism and the Old Testament. Throughout this year (2026), the LDS Church’s official curriculum Come, Follow Me takes members through the Old Testament.[1] These articles offer an evangelical Christian perspective … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged Bruce McConkie, canon, Mormons and the Old Testament
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A Deep Dive in Alma 5 as a Core Sample in the Book of Mormon
In 2024, I began research on Alma 5:3–62, a speech that the Book of Mormon attributes to a first-century BC Israelite prophet in the Americas named Alma. This research investigates proposed evidence for and against the speech's antiquity. I’m pleased … Continue reading
From the Shema to the Homoousios: The Jewish Roots and New Testament Origins of the Nicene Creed
My paper, "From the Shema to the Homoousios: The Jewish Roots and New Testament Origins of the Nicene Creed," has now been uploaded to my page on Academia.edu. Critics of the Nicene Creed routinely characterize it as a Hellenized distortion … Continue reading
Philo on Abraham’s Three Visitors: Evidence of a Pagan Origin of the Trinity?
This is a follow-up to my previous post, “Unitarians, William Inge, and the Platonism in Christianity.” Unitarian apologist Carlos Xavier, in the same post in which he quoted Inge out of context, also manages to quote the first-century Jewish philosopher … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, Jesus and Christology, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged Carlos Xavier, Nicene Creed, Philo
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Unitarians, William Inge, and the Platonism in Christianity
There is practically a cottage industry online of quote mining secondary sources to criticize the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity. These quotations usually omit salient elements of those sources that would make them useless to the anti-Trinitarian polemicists. … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus and Christology, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged Carlos Xavier, Incarnation, Neoplatonism, Paul, Platonism, Plotinus, resurrection, Trinity, William Inge
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The State of Theology Survey and Trouble with the Trinity
As I noted in my previous post on the 2025 Ligonier/Lifeway State of Theology Survey, the statement to which most evangelical church members strongly agreed was the one affirming the doctrine of the Trinity: There is one true God in … Continue reading