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The God Who Feels: A Biblical Case for Divine Passibility by Rudolph P. Boshoff

Does God Really Suffer With Us? One of the most important debates in contemporary theology concerns the emotional life of God. Does God genuinely experience love, grief, compassion, delight, and sorrow in response to His creatures? Or is God utterly beyond all emotional change? For centuries, many Christian theologians affirmed the doctrine of divine impassibility, the belief that God cannot be affected by anything outside Himself and therefore cannot suffer or experience emotional changes. Classical [...]

By |2026-06-15T13:44:28+02:00June 15th, 2026|Divine Simplicity, Evil and Suffering, Theistic Personalism|0 Comments
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Neo-Classical Theism vs. Classical Theism: Why the Classical View of God Faces Serious Challenges by Rudolph P. Boshoff

In the world of Christian philosophy and theology, few debates are as deep and enduring as the one between Classical Theism and Neo-Classical Theism. Classical Theism—shaped by giants like Augustine, Anselm, and especially Thomas Aquinas—presents God as the ultimate, unchanging, perfectly simple, timeless, and impassible Being. Neo-Classical Theism (sometimes called “modified classical theism”) seeks to preserve God’s core perfections while making room for a more relational, responsive, and dynamic picture of divinity.While both sides affirm [...]

By |2026-06-07T12:06:24+02:00June 4th, 2026|Divine Simplicity|0 Comments
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William Hasker’s reply to Dale Tuggy on the denial of the Doctrine of the Trinity.

This document is a scholarly reply by William Hasker defending the historical development of the Trinity doctrine against Dale Tuggy's critique, emphasizing biblical and theological evidence. Disagreements on Definitions of Key Terms The author criticizes Tuggy’s problematic definitions of ‘unitarian’ and ‘trinitarian,’ arguing they distort historical and theological understanding. Tuggy’s broad ‘unitarian’ includes early theologians like Tertullian and Origen, despite their differing views, and his ‘trinitarian’ requires full ontological equality and identification of the Trinity [...]

By |2026-03-22T12:29:42+02:00March 22nd, 2026|Trinity, Unitarianism|0 Comments
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20 Ways Cults Twist Scripture: A Biblical Response Inspired by James Sire

“How often have you encountered some bizarre doctrine only to be stunned to hear a Bible verse quoted to support it?” That question from James W. Sire cuts straight to the heart of a problem every Christian eventually faces: Scripture is not always denied, it is often misused. In fact, some of the most dangerous theological errors arise not from rejecting the Bible, but from twisting it. Sire’s work, Scripture Twisting, remains one of the [...]

By |2026-03-20T10:35:11+02:00March 20th, 2026|Christian Cults|0 Comments
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Agency or Divinity? Why the Biblical Unitarian Argument About Jesus Falls Short by Rudolph P. Boshoff

In contemporary theological debates—especially online—Biblical Unitarianism has resurfaced as a serious challenge to historic Christian doctrine. One of its most common claims is that Jesus is not God but simply God’s appointed agent. According to this view, the exalted language used about Christ in the New Testament reflects delegated authority, not divine identity. At first glance, the argument appears persuasive. After all, Scripture repeatedly states that Jesus was sent by the Father and that He [...]

By |2026-03-07T10:22:26+02:00March 7th, 2026|Christology, Church History, Unitarianism|0 Comments
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Jesus Across Time in the Gospel of John by Rudolph P. Boshoff

What if the Gospel of John presents Jesus not just as a historical figure, but as Lord over all time? When we read the gospel, we see that the author makes it abundantly clear that Jesus, in fact, did act in five places in history. In John’s Gospel, Jesus is revealed across five time horizons. As Andreas Köstenberger writes: “John presents Jesus as the eternal Son who transcends temporal categories, yet acts decisively within history.” — [...]

By |2026-02-18T10:17:08+02:00February 18th, 2026|Christology|0 Comments
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Exploring Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “The Cost of Discipleship”: Cheap Grace Versus Costly Grace by Rudolph P. Boshoff

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor and theologian executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his resistance to Hitler, wrote one of the most influential works on Christian living in the 20th century: The Cost of Discipleship (originally published in German as Nachfolge in 1937). Amid the rising tyranny of Nazi Germany and the complicity of much of the church, Bonhoeffer challenged believers to reject superficial faith and embrace radical obedience to Jesus Christ. At [...]

By |2026-01-21T08:27:28+02:00January 21st, 2026|Ecclesiology|0 Comments
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Prophecy, Authority, and Accountability in Scripture by Rudolph P. Boshoff

Claims of prophecy carry enormous spiritual weight. In Scripture, to speak in the name of God is not a neutral religious act but a morally dangerous vocation. For that reason, the Bible is not permissive toward prophetic claims; it is exacting, cautious, and often severe. There are many people speaking "for the Lord" online these days. Any contemporary appeal to prophecy that bypasses this biblical rigor should immediately raise concern, not because God no longer [...]

By |2026-01-21T08:26:53+02:00January 20th, 2026|Prophets and the Prophetic|0 Comments
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Why Biblical Unitarianism Fails: A Scriptural and Historical Rebuttal by Rudolph P. Boshoff

Introduction: The Real Issue Is Not Simplicity but Fidelity Biblical Unitarianism presents itself as a return to “pure” monotheism—simple, uncluttered, and allegedly faithful to Scripture. Yet simplicity is not the same as truth. The real question is not whether the doctrine of the Trinity is easy, but whether it is required by the totality of biblical evidence. This article argues that Unitarianism fails because it redefines monotheism, selectively reads Scripture, and cannot account for the [...]

By |2026-01-12T12:34:44+02:00January 12th, 2026|Unitarianism|0 Comments
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The One True God Who Is Three: A Biblical Deduction of the Doctrine of the Trinity by Rudolph P. Boshoff

The Question of the One True God Scripture is unambiguous on one foundational point: there is only one true God. Yet the same Scriptures repeatedly identify the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as fully and truly God—not by courtesy, title, or function, but by nature, essence, attributes, works, and worship. The doctrine of the Trinity is not imposed upon Scripture by later creeds; rather, it is deduced from Scripture’s own categories. The argument [...]

By |2026-01-21T10:36:29+02:00January 12th, 2026|Trinity|0 Comments
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