Many readers will be aware that one of the important elements of my work on the divine council and the biblical supernatural worldview is the notion that the New Testament doctrine of a Trinitarian Godhead derives from the Old Testament. (In case you’re presuming I’m getting that from the plurals in Gen. 1:26, you’d be wrong — that passage has nothing to do with a Trinity). The Old Testament Godhead became the basis for what used to be called the Two Powers in Heaven doctrine in ancient Judaism, something that became a heresy for Jews after the rise of Christianity. This issue was part of my doctoral dissertation.
A short promotional video and blog post for my Mobile Ed Course, “Jewish Trinity” just went live. The course is an overview of the divine council and how the Old Testament evidences and Godhead.
If you’ve ever wondered how Jews who embraced the Shema (“Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one”; Deut. 6:4; JPS Tanakh) could embrace Jesus as God incarnate, especially since they were willing to be put to death rather than worship the gods of their Roman overlords, this course is for you.
I took the course and highly recommend it.
Great for modern Jewish evangelism, great for understanding how our Jewish Christian “fathers” from Jerusalem in the first century AD began this faith when they believed Jesus of Nazareth was Yahweh.
wow – thanks!
I’m working through it now and it’s really informative and really well taught. It’s been totally worth it for me. I’m hoping the videos become available on DVD so I could give to friends and family. I think it’s really accessible to normal, non-scholarly people who have knowledge of the Bible, but not a lot of exposure to what really great Bible study can look like.
cool; true as well – it’s not about method and (deliberately) not dense in content. It’ll be interesting to see what a Mobile Ed course featuring my book The Unseen Realm will look like. Next year sometime.
I’ve been taking the course too and am thoroughly enjoying it! I will be reviewing it on my blog in the near future.
Glad to hear you’ll do a course for the Unseen Realm content! That sounds excellent, and great for displaying through Logos software
Thanks – the Unseen Realm course will be a bit of a challenge. I’ll just have to remember to funnel ideas / video content toward the book and I should be okay. The book is dense, and I don’t want video content to suffer in that regard.