Kirsopp Lake, a 20th-century British New Testament scholar, proposed an alternative explanation to the resurrection of Jesus, commonly known as “The Wrong Tomb Theory”. He proposed that the women who had informed the disciples about the missing body of Jesus visited the wrong tomb that morning. If this is true, then the disciples who went after to check for the body of Jesus must…
The ante-Nicene fathers, from the second to the fourth century after Christ, taught and defended the doctrine of the Trinity. Below are two examples: Tertullian (ca. 160–225) The first defence of the doctrine of the Trinity was by Tertullian, who was born around 160 AD. He explicitly "defined" the Trinity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and defended his theology against Praxeas, although he…
The story about David (before he was king) fleeing King Saul is found in the book of 1 Samuel in the Old Testament. Here the author recorded that David went to Ahimelech, the priest, asking for bread for himself and his companions. However, in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is reported saying that in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, David went asking…
Soli Deo Gloria is the teaching that to God alone is due glory. This doctrine rejects the veneration of saints and other holy objects or persons. In some ways, soli Deo gloria may be regarded as redundant with solus Christus since it emphasises salvation as being only from God, but it also adds the idea that human beings should not seek out their own…
