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Resources for Additional Research
The resources below were very helpful for me in my own research. While I do not agree with all the theology presented in each source (for example, I agree generally with biblical unitarians on their view of Jesus but not the Holy Spirit as simply a "force" or "God's power"), each resource helped me answer one of my 5 questions. I am very grateful for the biblical scholarship and insight provided by my brothers and sisters here. Many of these sources provide additional depth that I do not in my posts, particularly concerning topics 1, Is Jesus God, and 3, Universal Salvation.
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Praise God for His promise in Jeremiah 29:13, "And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."
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May God bless you.
8 Blogs
16 Books
1 Website
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Is Jesus God?
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1. "Christ before Creeds: Rediscovering the Jesus of History" by Jeff Deuble
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2. “One God & One Lord: Reconsidering the Cornerstone of the Christian Faith”, by Mark H. Graeser, John A. Lynn, and John W. Schoenheit
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3. “Divine Truth or Human Tradition?” by Patrick Navas
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4. “The God of Jesus in Light of Christian Dogma” by Kegan A. Chandler
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5. "Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence" by James D.G. Dunn
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Universal Salvation
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1. “The Inescapable Love of God” by Thomas Talbott
2. “Christ Triumphant: Universalism Asserted as the Hope of the Gospel on the Authority of Reason, the Fathers, and Holy Scripture” by Thomas Allin,
3. “Bible Proof of Universal Salvation” by J.W. Hanson
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4. "That All Shall be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation" by David Bentley Hart
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Images of the Invisible God
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The Bible by God
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Again, I have no specific source to recommend: just the many biblical promises of God that one day, Christians will be conformed to the image of Christ and share Paul's description of him in Colossians 1:15 as images of the invisible God.
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The Holy Spirit: God the Mother
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1. Learn About Images of the Holy Spirit - Deidre Havrelock
2. What Is the Mother God Experiment? - The Mother God Experiment
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1. “Our Mother: The Holy Spirit” by Marianne Widmalm
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2. “Holy Spirit: A Beautiful Glorious She: Women’s Role in the Godhead” by Eulalie Hendricks
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3. “Not Only a Father: Talk of God as Mother in the Bible and Christian Tradition” by Tim Bulkeley
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4. “The Engendering God: Male and Female Faces of God” by Carl A. Raschke and Susan Doughty Raschke
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5. “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr
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6. “The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood” by Philip B. Payne
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Who is Jesus if he is not God?
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The Bible by God
I do not have any specific sources to recommend besides the Bible on this topic. Every source that helped me answer this question (cited in my "References" post), while there was truth, included obviously extrabiblical information to the point where recommending any source on this topic would be unhelpful. I am confident my conclusions to this question are true, but only because of the Bible after a lot of sifting through largely extrabiblical sources. Please do not reject what I wrote because of this but really consider if God's character and His Word line up with my conclusions. If Jesus is not God, and he is not who I think he is, who do you think he is? Consider: when Jesus returns, we will be like him for we shall see him “as he is” (1 John 3:2). This verse highlights seeing Jesus more clearly, “as he is”, as the reason we will be like him. Could John be referencing the potential truths about Jesus I suggest? At a minimum, 1 John 3:2 states that when Jesus returns we will see him more clearly than we now do. Perhaps what I write about is part of what John is saying in 1 John 3:2.
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The Millennium
Book:
The Bible by God
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Biblical prophecy is confusing and, as Paul says, "For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away" (1 Corinthians 13:9-10). I have no source to offer that was tremendously helpful on understanding the millennial reign of Christ. "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Revelation 22:20)
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