A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
From ChatGPT Romans 1:3–4 is one of the central texts in debates over early “exaltation Christology” because its wording can be read as describing a transition in Jesus’ status at the resurrection. Critical scholars disagree on how far that transition goes. Core Debate: What about Jesus’ status changed at the resurrection as depicted by Paul […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 2/17/2026. Go to the post here for how the Apostles Creed relates to the Nicaea Creed. Summary – Those in bold are the primary Councils. Council of Nicaea (325 AD) Convened by Emperor Constantine, Nicaea was the first ecumenical (universal) council of the Christian church. Its primary purpose was to resolve the […]
Continue Reading12/15/2025 – This post contains multiple responses from ChatGPT regarding the usage and evolution of the Greek words for person, entity, mask, face, essence, and others as they were used in the development and expression of the Trinity. Phonetic Spelling: prah-suhpahnPhonetic Spelling: heye-p-oh-s-taysisPhonetic Spelling: ow-zhuhontology – The philosophical study of being. The subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features […]
Continue ReadingBelow are significant comments to a question posted at BSA in October 2025. The extracts pasted below are in the same order as the overall post at BSA. All emphasis is mine. Original Question summarized: Why the trinity at all? Why not a duality: The Father and Son? Why did Christians find it necessary to […]
Continue ReadingActs 10:36–38 (NRSV) “You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing […]
Continue ReadingClick here for the text from William Ellery Channing‘s famous 1819 speech on Unitarian Christianity at the First Unitarian Church in Baltimore, MD. In a BSA comment, Charles Bledsoe offered the link saying: “Here’s a link to a literarily sophisticated and quite famous sermon in the history of American Christianity…” Scroll down the long page for text about why […]
Continue ReadingThe Biblical Studies Academy presented Bart Ehrman’s one-hour talk titled The Birth of the Trinity on 1/9/2025. I extracted the audio and uploaded it to a transcribing service. The transcription is in his directory in DropBox. The transcription was then uploaded to ChatCPT and the prompt asked for a summary to include all scriptural and […]
Continue ReadingThe italicized text below immediately after the bullet is from Bart Ehrman’s post Early Christian Docetism, September 28, 2015. The text following that line is from another of his posts at the cited link. From the surviving documents of the period, there appear to have been five major competing Christologies (= understandings of who Christ […]
Continue ReadingAthanasius of Alexandria – See Wikipedia which is the source of the extracts below.
Continue ReadingThis page will collect info about the evolution of ideas (aka theology) held by Hebrew/Judaism thru Christianity regarding an afterlife. From Dust to Dust GENESIS 3:19 – By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to […]
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