Did Jesus Claim to be the Son of God?
A bit of media for you: Jesus’s divine sonship and God’s sovereignty!
Did Jesus really claim to be the Son of God? Tom Wright and Mike Bird directly respond to Bart Ehrman’s argument that Jesus never claimed to be divine, so they offer a historical and biblical case for Jesus' identity as God’s Son.
In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom and Mike Bird tackle Jesus' divinity, the Eucharist, the Ten Commandments, and the Sabbath.
One of the appeals of Open Theism is that God does not determine the future, rather, the future is “open” and God experiences it with us. The idea of God as immutable, impassible, and determining the future is allegedly based on Greek philosophy with its account of the divine as an impersonal monad immune from the human experience. A God who is utterly sovereign, so it goes, cannot sympathize with our weaknesses.
However, traditional theology has claimed that while God is immutable and impassible (in the proper senses), God is not less interactive, loving, and compassionate.
Alternatively, Graham Cole, a former Ridley College principal and Dean at TEDS, argues that there is no problem in thinking of God as pro-active (sovereign), interactive (engaged), and reactive (sympathetic). Check out my interview with him from a couple of years ago.