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The Biblical Unitarian Podcast
A weekly podcast examining what the Bible says about the oneness and unity of God and about the humanity of Jesus Christ. By Dustin R. Smith, PhD.
Episodes
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038: Paul’s Adam Christology in Romans
The Apostle Paul describes Jesus as the "second Adam". What does this term mean for Paul's christology and how does it relate to whether Jesus consciously…
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037: Matthew’s Theology and Purpose in Calling Jesus “Emmanuel”
What exactly does Matthew intend for his readers to understand with the reference to Jesus being ‘God with us’? Does this mean that Jesus was to be explicitly…
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036: Agency and God’s Agents in the New Testament
Since it is clear that God often invested his name, authority, attributes, and rule into human beings and angels within the Old Testament, does the same…
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035: Agency and God’s Agents in the Old Testament
God regularly uses qualified human agents to carry forth his will and deeds on earth. How much authority do these agents have? What does it mean when God…
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034: Off the Script Thoughts on Jesus’ Humanity
In a more casual episode, I wanted to freely think out loud about the relevance of Jesus as a human being, the original function of human beings as…
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033: Jesus, the Prophet Like Moses
One of the most unfamiliar titles and vocations attributed to Jesus Christ within the New Testament is that he is "the Prophet", or "the Prophet like Moses"…
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032: “Let Us Make Man” and Other Passages with Plural Pronouns
Despite the 25,000 grammatical references to God being a single person within Scripture, some readers are more persuaded by a handful of verses where God…
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031: The Ascending and Descending Son of Man in John’s Gospel
What does the Gospel of John mean when it twice argues that the Son of Man "ascended" and "descended" from heaven? Does this mean that the Son of Man…
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030: Honest Talk about John 1:1
This episode will examine John 1:1, just a single verse, to within an inch of its life. The study draws readers back to Genesis, notes the importance of Hebrew…
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029: Does Paul Call Jesus ’God’ in Romans 9:5?
Romans 9:5 is grammatically ambiguous in the Greek. Is the passage calling Christ according to the flesh "over all God" or is God the Father described as the…
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028: Jewish Preexistence, Both In and Out of the Bible
The New Testament, among many of its seemingly complicated christologies, exhibits influence from Jewish ideas of preexistence--the theology regarding certain…
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027: Differences between God and Jesus Christ
Although it is a common belief that God the Father and the Son of God are coequal, there appear to be explicit differences between these two figures. This…
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026: Wisdom Christology Throughout the Gospel of John
Having already observed that the opening Prologue of the Gospel of John is a poem of Wisdom Christology, we turn in this episode to see how the rest of the…
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025: Wisdom Christology in the Prologue of John’s Gospel
John's Gospel begins with an eighteen-verse Prologue where Jesus is depicted as the incarnation/embodiment of God's creative and powerful word. However, it is…
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024: Wisdom Christology in the Book of Hebrews
As we continue our journey through the New Testament, we arrive at the Book of Hebrews. Within the first three verses of this sermon, there appear to be four…
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023: Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of Matthew
Within our ongoing study of Wisdom Christology within the New Testament, we move to examine the Gospel of Matthew. Within this ancient biography of the human…
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022: Wisdom Christology in Colossians
In our continued study of Wisdom Christology throughout the New Testament, we arrive at the Epistle to the Colossians. Within this letter, the famous hymn…
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021: Wisdom Christology in 1 Corinthians
Having already examined Proverbs, Sirach, and Philo depicting God's Wisdom as a personified female figure embodied into human beings, we now turn to the New…
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020: The Origins of Wisdom Christology in Sirach and Philo
The theology exhibited in Proverbs wherein Lady Wisdom can be embodied into human beings was influential with other Jewish writers before the New Testament was…
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019: The Origins of Wisdom Christology in the Book of Proverbs
Modern scholars have observed that many New Testament authors depict Jesus in light of Lady Wisdom (i.e., God's wise interaction with and instruction to his…
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018: John 1 and the Genesis Creation
Despite the dominant scholarly consensus, there is a vocal minority on social media insisting that John 1:1 is not pointing back to the Genesis creation, but…
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017: Should Christians Pray to Jesus?
Does the New Testament depict believers praying/offering prayers to Jesus? You might be surprised at the answer. This episode seeks to honestly assess how the…
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016: Practical Applications of Biblical Unitarianism
Does it even matter what we believe about who God is and who Jesus is? Some say that it does; others say that it doesn't. In this episode, we explore three…
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015: Should Christians Worship Jesus?
If Jesus is worshiped in the Bible, does that prove that he is God? Not necessarily. This episode will examine how the Bible depicts worship offered to human…
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014: An Introduction to Preexistence within the Bible
Many of the debates about Jesus' identity revolve around how one understands the nature of 'preexistence' within the Bible. This episode sets out to introduce…
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013: The Christ Hymn in Philippians 2
What are we to make of the controversial passage of Phil. 2:5-11? This episode attempts to explain the nuances of the passage by highlighting Paul's allusions…
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012: The Bible’s Use of "God" Language for Human Beings
How are we to responsibly interpret the fact that the Bible both calls certain exceptional human beings "God" and insists that there is only one true God? The…
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011: The Exalted Status of the Resurrected Jesus
Why does it seem that the most exalted praises are given to Jesus after his resurrection? Is the risen Jesus equal in status and rank with God the Father? How…
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010: The Crucifixion of the Human Jesus
What does the New Testament teach about Jesus' death that has implications for biblical Christology? Did Jesus completely die or did he only partially die?…
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009: Jesus has a God
Did Jesus have a God? This might sound like a strange question to some, but Jesus stated on multiple occasions that he did indeed has a God above him. The God…
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008: Jesus as God’s Agent in the Gospels
In this episode, we explore the principle of agency wherein a sent agent fully represents the one who sent him. We demonstrate that this understanding of…
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007: The Humanity of Jesus in the Gospels
In this episode, we examine how the four New Testament Gospel accounts portray Jesus as a human figure. Do Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John call Jesus a "human…
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006: The Birth of Jesus in Romans-Revelation
We continue our discussion of how the New Testament authors describe the birth of Jesus. We examine this in this episode how Romans, Galatians, 2 Timothy…
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005: The Birth of Jesus According to Matthew and Luke
This episode seeks to answer whether Jesus was "begotten" (brought into existence) or not. Both Matthew and Luke offer birth narratives and lengthy genealogies…
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004: The Human Jesus Anticipated in the Old Testament (3/3)
This episode continues our exploration throughout the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) in which we observe how the Messiah was expected to be of the line of David…
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003: The Human Jesus Anticipated in the Old Testament (2/3)
The Old Testament regards the coming messianic figure to be of the line of King David, clearly making him a human being (as David was). In fact, there are so…
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002: The Human Jesus Anticipated in the Old Testament (1/3)
In the first century C.E., Jesus was recognized by his followers as the "Messiah," a title denoting the anointed king of the kingdom in whom all of Israel's…
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001: God is One Person
One of the major truth claims of Biblical Unitarians is that the God of the Bible is a single person (rather than a multi-personal God taught within binitarian…
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000: About This Podcast
"What is a Biblical Unitarian?" In this introductory episode, we set the scope for the Biblical Unitarian Podcast. In doing so, we define what a Biblical…