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Holy Trinity Icon Ziryanskaya. Икона «Зырянская Троица», (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In 1991 John Piper and Wayne Grudem edited what is one of the most influential and significant books of that decade:  Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood.  The book’s goal was to show that egalitarianism —the idea that men and women should not have any role differences in marriage or in church—is unbiblical. Instead, Christians should embrace complimentarianism –the idea that God designed the sexes to compliment each other through different roles in both marriage and church life. Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood  dismantled egalitarianism for a generation of evangelicals. Grudem and Piper used a barrage of arguments, hunted down obscure Greek words, and built an air-tight case that men and women are of equal worth/value/dignity/honor, but have different roles. Of the book’s many postulates, one of the more lasting came from Thomas Schreiner (who at the...

The Trinity is one of the great theological mysteries. There are some who think that because we believe in monotheism, one God, we cannot accept the concept of the Trinity. Yet the Bible teaches that the Godhead consists of three divine Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each fully God, each showing fully the divine nature (Luke 3:21, 22). The Father is the fountainhead of the Trinity, the Creator, the first cause. He is the primary thought, the concept of all that has been and will be created. Jesus said, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working" (John 5:17). The Son is the "Logos" or expression of God—the "only begotten" of the Father—and He Himself is God. Further, as God incarnate, He reveals the Father to us (John 14:9). The Son of God is both the agent of creation and mankind’s only Redeemer. The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, proceeds from the Father and is worshipped and glorified together with the Father...

Logos is giving away  The Godhead of God  by A. W. Pink . Pink explains the book this way: ”The Godhood of God! What is meant by the expression? This: the omnipotency of God, the absolute sovereignty of God. When we speak of the Godhood of God we affirm that God is God. We affirm that God is something more than an empty title: that God is something more than a mere figure-head: that God is something more than a far-distant Spectator , looking helplessly on at the suffering which sin has wrought. When we speak of the Godhood of God we affirm that He is ‘King of kings and Lord of lords .’ “You can get it  here . Related articles On the Mormon Concept of God (maverickphilosopher.typepad.com) Logos Free Book of the Month for May (readingacts.wordpress.com) The Road Less Traveled - Godlike (ayearofintention.wordpress.com) Ex Mormon Ed. Decker slams Joel Olsteen's comments: "Mormons are Christians" (exministries.wordpress.com) ("What kind of madness forces an...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Flagellation of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1880) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." ( Colossians 2:9 ) The term "Godhead" occurs three times in the King James translation . Each time it translates a slightly different Greek noun, all being slight modifications of the Greek word for " God " (theos, from which we derive such English words as "theology"). It essentially means the nature, or "structure," of God, as He has revealed Himself in His Word. The first occurrence is in Acts 17:29 : "We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device." Men have been guilty throughout the ages of trying to "model" the Godhead, but this leads quickly to idolatry, whether that model is a graven image of wood or stone or a philosophical construct of the human mind. What man ca...