Two important articles in the Journal of Biblical Unitarianism 1/1

The Journal of Biblical Unitarianism 1/1 is available on-line and has two very interesting articles.

The first is by Dr. Dale Tuggy, “Who Should Christians Worship?” and the second is a paper by Dustin Smith, “An inquiry into the identity and meaning of the Devil and Demons.”

Tuggy delves into the issue of “worship” and who/what should be worshiped and what entails “proper”/”biblical” worship. As an aside, his Trinities blog is a blog one has to follow if they are serious about studying the debates about Trinitarianism.


The latter by Dustin Smith is one of the best refutations of the Christadelphian understanding of the devil and demons; in Christadelpian theology, there is no personal, supernatural devil/satan and “demons” in the New Testament are often depicted as being a synonym mental illness. I am perhaps the rare Latter-day Saint who has studied the Christadelphian faith, especially its demonology, but Dustin’s paper is a thorough engagement with the best apologists for this perspective (e.g. Ron Abel; Duncan Heaster [who has written an entire book on this issue, The Real Devil]), and shows it to be without any meaningful exegetical warrant.