The Confutation Of Metaphysical Naturalism

Objection : Most of the concepts on the trinity are extrabiblical and derived from the nicene creeds.    That’s just a conspiracy theory.   Since I find the Nicene Creed to be monarchical & disagree, it’s doubtful that my belief in the Trinity is derived from the Nicene Creed. Rather, the choice the Bible offers is between modalism & trinitarianism, & since the created order testifies to the existence of God’s INVISIBLE attributes & authority & displays simultaneous unity & diversity in equal measure, modalism lacks the explanatory value of trinitarianism.    For example numbers are infinitely perichoretic.    If modalism obtains, the image of God tilts toward unity more than diversity which, as to whole numbers means that the fractional integers that make any set of whole numbers perfectly perichoretic don’t exist — yet they do.  Objection : This outside of space and time, uncaused caused, without body, parts, or pass...
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Matthew On The Virgin Birth

According to some critics of the Bible, the Virgin Birth, & assorted Village Atheists & Skeptics, the author(s) of Matthew invented the Virgin Birth by reformulating or outright misquoting the text of Isaiah 7:14.  

The key to correctly understanding this text. Matthew’s citation of Isaiah 7:14 is found in the doctrine of Continuationism. The objection assumes Cessationism & it assumes that the Hebrew reading is the only correct reading.  However, if Continuationism obtains (WSC 5.3), then this objection disappears. 

The Hebrew version of Isaiah reads “young woman of marriable age.”   The LXX reads, “virgin.”  Which one is correct?   The solution is simple & elegant: 

Both!  The Hebrew points us to the child born in Isaiah’s name as an answer to Ahaz.   Matthew chooses the LXX version to point us to Christ.   From a continuationist perspective, God inspired both versions & inspired Matthew to use the LXX not the Hebrew.   


O LORD, Hear our prayer(s)!

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