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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part Two: Responding to Mormon Misrepresentations of the Trinity
In Part One of this response to LDS apologist Ronald Kimmons’s flow chart on the Trinity, I summarized his argument and replied to red herrings or misdirections included in that chart that are not germane to the issue of whether … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism, Trinity
Tagged analogies, heresy, incomprehensibility, Latter-day Saints, modalism, theological method
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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part One: Responding to Mormon Misdirection on the Trinity
Ronald Kimmons is a Latter-day Saint businessman with political ambitions, a self-described “digital marketing professional, linguist, and smartypants” who has also spent a lot of time answering questions on the popular Q&A website Quora. According to his Quora profile, Kimmons, … Continue reading
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and Christology, Mormonism, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged heresy, Latter-day Saints
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Answers to Mormon Answers on Moroni 8:18
August 18 is observed annually with the message “We Agree with Moroni 8:18” by evangelical Christians who seek to share the biblical faith with Latter-day Saints. Moroni 8:18, a verse near the end of the Book of Mormon, states: For … Continue reading
And Don’t Call Us Mormons: The LDS Church and Language Control
Earlier today the website Mormon Newsroom issued an “Official Statement” from Russell Nelson, the President and Prophet of the LDS Church: The Lord has impressed upon my mind the importance of the name He has revealed for His Church, even … Continue reading
Yea, Verily, Yea: The Word Yea and the Book of Mormon’s Imitation of the King James Version
Yesterday I posted a short article here summarizing the first three articles on IRR’s website in a new series entitled “Moroni’s New Testament.” In those articles, I showed that the author of the writings attributed to Moroni in the … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, King James Version, KJV
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Moroni’s New Testament: Proof that the Author of the Book of Mormon Used the King James Version
Many passages of the Book of Mormon are demonstrably dependent on the New Testament. The most obvious use of the New Testament in the Book of Mormon comes in 3 Nephi 12–14, most of which is copied nearly verbatim from … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, King James Version, KJV, Moroni, New Testament
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The Light Analogy, Theological Method, and the Doctrine of the Trinity
In 2010 I participated in a lengthy online written debate entitled “The Great Trinity Debate” with a Christadelphian named David Burke. I presented a defense of Trinitarianism and Burke defended Unitarianism (of the “Biblical Unitarian” variety). A few days after … Continue reading
Posted in Trinity
Tagged analogies, David Burke, Jaco Van Zyl, Robert Boylan, theological method, Unitarianism
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Jesus the Divine Bridegroom: Michael Tait’s Case for a High Christology in Mark
Tait, Michael. Jesus, the Divine Bridegroom, in Mark 2:18-22: Mark’s Christology Upgraded. Analecta Biblica 185. Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2010. Michael Tait is a former schoolteacher and headmaster with two doctorates who sought but never … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Jesus and Christology
Tagged Christology, deity of Christ, Gospel of Mark, Jesus
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Is the Expression “Make a Record” Evidence for the Book of Mormon? A Case Study in Testing Mormon Apologetic Arguments
The “Book of Mormon Central” website, founded by LDS scholars Lynne Wilson and John W. Welch in 2015 and operated by the Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum, has quickly become a popular source for apologetic arguments in defense of the … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged appeal to ignorance, Book of Mormon, Ecclesiastes, Michael Fishbane
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Lydia McGrew on Credentials and New Testament Scholarship
Lydia McGrew is a scholar trained in the study of literature (her Ph.D. was in English literature), an accomplished author of peer-reviewed publications in philosophy (including epistemology and philosophy of religion) including some directly relevant to Gospel scholarship, and recently … Continue reading