As the subtitle of this web blog indicates, it reflects my personal studies, conclusions, and current thinking in my quest for biblical truth. I spent the first few decades of my adult life as an unbeliever, fluctuating between calling myself an agnostic and an atheist. I was the typical skeptic, thinking all religion was a crutch for those who couldn’t deal with the idea that this present life was all you got. The day came along when I made friends with a Christian on the Internet and through our online friendship, he managed to pique my curiosity enough to get me started reading the Bible on my own. To make a long story short, reading and researching and grilling my friend for answers made a believer out of me. And from the very beginning I have had an insatiable appetite for the Word of God.

I quickly got involved in online Christian discussion forums where I discovered that there was a wide diversity of beliefs about what the Bible teaches. Some of the differences are minor, while some of them actually cause division and strife among those who call Christ Lord. Over the years of Bible study and discussion with like- and opposite-minded individuals, I slowly refined what I believed. All this time I believed in the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity without questioning it. When I found out through my reading that not everyone who claims to be a Christian believes in the Trinity, I decided it was something I had better study for myself. So I dug in.

I learned to look up the words of my English Bibles in Greek and Hebrew lexicons to find out the full depth of meaning of the words in their original languages. Translation is not a straight-forward discipline and many word choices are just that, choices. I have learned that theological bias (such as a belief in the Trinity) can and has affected the choice of words used by the translators when translating the scriptures into other languages, such as English. Of the English translations popular today, especially in the United States, I found the New International Version (NIV) to be exceedingly biased in this way, to the point even of inserting words into the text that do not appear in any of the extant biblical manuscripts, in order to make it appear that Jesus is God. I have many examples of this and will one day post it as an entry to my blog.

When my study led me away from a belief in the Trinity and toward a unitarian belief about God and Jesus Christ, a major shift in personal belief about God, I decided to start this blog so that I could share my studies with others. My goal is not to force my beliefs on you, but only to allow you to see some of the arguments and thinking that exist that may be different from what you have always believed. As I found out in participating in online discussion forums, we can argue forcefully with one another, which displays little if any Christian love; or we can calmly explain what we believe and why and let each other draw our own conclusions. Forceful arguments almost never accomplish any understanding between parties, they only cause people to draw battle lines and dig in their feet. Such behavior does not honor Christ nor give glory to God.

So, read what interests you and take from it what you will. May God bless your study of His Word.

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