Secondary context

Jesus and the God of Israel

Scholarly work on early divine-identity Christology and Jewish monotheism.

Citation

Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity, Eerdmans, 2008.

Used for divine identity, the Shema, and early high Christology.

Islam
Religion: A reference profile for answering Islamic objections to the gospel.
Biblical Monotheism
Argument: A biblical argument that the LORD alone is God, so any later claim must be tested by whether it preserves his worship rather than replacing it.
Jesus Is God
Argument: A biblical and historical case that the New Testament identifies Jesus as God rather than as a mere creature or prophet.
Liar, Lunatic, or Lord
Argument: A careful use of C. S. Lewis's trilemma against the claim that Jesus was merely a good moral teacher.
The Trinity Is Monotheism
Argument: A case that the Christian doctrine of the Trinity confesses one God in three persons, not three gods.
Jesus Did Not Know the Day or Hour
Objection: An answer to Mark 13:32 and the claim that Jesus' limited knowledge disproves that he is God.
Jesus Never Claimed to Be God
Objection: An answer to the Islamic claim that Jesus was only a prophet and that Christians later made him God.
The Trinity and Incarnation Violate Monotheism
Objection: A response to Jewish objections that Christian claims about Jesus compromise the oneness of God.
The Trinity Is Pagan
Objection: A response to the Watch Tower claim that the Trinity is a pagan or post-biblical corruption.
The Trinity Is Shirk
Objection: A Christian answer to the Islamic charge that the Trinity compromises the oneness of Allah.
Christ and the Trinity
Topic: Issue map for claims about Jesus as God, biblical monotheism, the Holy Spirit, and the Trinity.