Sunday, May 3, 2015

Jesus was not a Unitarian

One of the most popular modern work defending the so-called Biblical Unitarian perspective is that of Anthony F. Buzzard, Jesus was not a Trinitarian: A Call to Return to the Creed of Jesus (Restoration Fellowship, 2007). This book was critiqued by David Paulsen et al.  in a review entitled, “Jesus was not a Unitarian.” While I believe Paulsen et al. relied a bit too much on the flawed work of Bowman and Komoszewski, Putting Jesus in His Place and did not seem to “get” everything Buzzard wrote about the issue of “my lord” in Psa 110:1 (Hebrew אדֹנִי adoni as opposed to אֲדֹנָי adonai meaning “[sovereign] Lord,” a substitution for Yahweh), the review does a very good job in (1) refuting many of the arguments forwarded by Buzzard for strict, ontological monotheism and (2) shows much of the biblical foundations for Latter-day Saint theology.

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