The doctrine of God is supremely important — souls depend on it. Dave Armstrong takes the orthodox, historical teaching famously formulated at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and presents it in laymen’s terms, anchored throughout in Scripture, so that any reader can defend the biblical truths of the Holy Trinity and Jesus as God the Son.
The bulk of the book is systematic theology by accumulation — direct biblical evidence for Jesus’ equality with the Father, His role as Creator, His eternity, the worship He receives, His omnipotence and omniscience, 50 Old Testament Messianic prophecies fulfilled in Him, 40 passages naming all three divine Persons, 40 personal attributes of the Holy Spirit, and the deity of the Spirit himself.
The closing chapters take up the harder questions: was Christ’s knowledge limited, could He have sinned, is God outside of time, can God change His mind, and the filioque controversy. A primer that doesn’t condescend, written against open theism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, and every doctrinal “fashionable nonsense” since 1981.
Inside this book
- Jesus is God: 18 lines of biblical evidence — equality with the Father, Creator, worshiped, omnipotent, omniscient, forgives sins, receives prayer
- 50 Old Testament Messianic prophecies fulfilled in Christ
- The Holy Trinity: 40 passages naming all three divine Persons; the deity of the Holy Spirit with 40 personal attributes
- The hard questions: was Christ’s knowledge limited? Could He have sinned (impeccability)? Two wills against monothelitism?
- Is God outside of time? Does God change His mind? The *filioque* controversy between East and West
