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Thursday, July 07, 2011

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Glory

Dale Tuggy has terminated further debate. In his parting shot he accuses me of “sinning” against him by slandering him. He cites Jas 4:11-12.

His appeal to James is quite ironic, given the high Christology of James. As Blomberg and Kamell note, in their comment on Jas 2:1:

The last genitive, “of glory” can be taken in two different ways…The second, appropriate in such a strongly Christological context, is appositional, so that Christ is equated with the shekinah glory of God, the “localized presence of Yahweh.”
As Robert Sloan observes, the term “has a long prehistory in Jewish history and theology as a euphemism for Yahweh,” building on the light in the tabernacle (Ex 40:34) and temple (1 Ki 8:11) and Ezekiel’s vision of the heavenly throne (Eze 1:28), it is widely used throughout the NT in close association with God and Christ to refer to their presence, and in this context it is not occurring “by itself,” but with a triad of related titles.

James (Zondervan 2008), 106-07.

This is diametrically opposed to Tuggy’s “humanitarian unitarianism.” Therefore, James wouldn’t regard Tuggy as a fellow Christian (or “brother”). To the contrary, he’d view Tuggy as a Christ-denier. Unitarianism slanders the person of Christ. He'd do well to think less highly of himself, and think more highly of Christ. 

2 comments:

  1. Brother Steve, are you really surprised that he terminated the debate and accused you of slandering him? Isn't it obvious that his appeal to sympathy is nothing more than a smokescreen which he is using to cover up his idolatrous fascination of human philosophy and a gross inability to exegete the text of Holy Scripture?

    I pray that our gracious, sovereign Triune God will grant him repentance to turn away from his false god and his obsession with human wisdom which he uses to pervert Scripture. May our risen Lord, Yahweh Jesus, the Father's beloved Son, grant him life in his name.

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  2. Yes, unitarians are animated by the spirit of the Antichrist.

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