Wes Huff

Did a fourth-century church council invent Christianity as we know it? It's one of the most popular claims made by skeptics today — that the divinity of Jesus and the contents of the Bible weren't ancient convictions, but later inventions, decided by committee at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. In this the 3rd episode of Can I Trust the Bible?, Wes and Andy head to Turkey and Italy, going straight to the source to find out whether there's any truth to these claims. Did the Council of Nicaea really vote on the Bible, or invent Christ's divinity? The answers might surprise you. Join us on this next adventure as we dig into one of church history's most misunderstood moments, separating myth from fact, and following the evidence where it leads. youtu.be/lpsKNd8tqHI?si…

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Lord’s Day listening. youtu.be/Y85Sr-iUVdg?si…

DDofG (and its later materialized counterparts @doseofhebrew @DoseOfAramaic @DoseofLatin @DailySeptuagint) have been one of a few key staples for me and my holding on of the biblical (and adjacent) languages over the years. Also shout out to @biblingoapp for their part in this as well.

How should we live today in light of the resurrection? Hear from @pj_schreiner as he shares the two ways Christians can live doing so: dying to self and putting to death what is earthly in us, and living with God's resurrected people, the Church.

Biblingo Latin is here. biblingo.com/latin

Rare photo of Pontus Pilate being told the tomb was found empty.

@conservmillen Agreed. Gavin was clear, gracious, (and importantly) correct in his critiques.

The recent discussion/ debate between Gavin Ortlund and Lila Rose about the magisterium, church history, sola scriptura and (a little bit of) mariology is REALLY good. Recommend listening. These topics start at 48 mins.

What did the language that Ea-Nasir spoke sound like?

Couple of days ago I posted my conversation with @pj_schreiner on the resurrection (specifically his new book on the topic). Since then a few people have wrote comments or messaged me stating that Jesus’s resurrection was a spiritual *not* a physical event. The word used in the New Testament that we translate as “resurrection” is anastasis. The term holds all the regular understanding we would ascribe to a physical rising or standing up, not merely spiritual revival. The general sense of anastasis is “raising” and could even refer to erecting a building, standing up, or even becoming well after being ill. However, the specific sense of anastasis as resurrection from the dead is the primary meaning in the NT, and is certainly the focus in 1 Cor. 15. The Gospel accounts and Paul’s usage provide strong evidence against a purely spiritual interpretation. Acts 2:31 emphasizes that Christ’s body “did not experience corruption,” indicating bodily continuity. Paul’s primary agenda is defense of a literal resurrection from the dead for both Christ and then all people, and for Paul, a physical resurrection, a literal was-dead-but-is-now-alive-again transformation is crucial for the Christian life. The distinction between revivification and resurrection is crucial here. The raising of Lazarus or of the widow of Nain’s son was a restoration to temporary physical life (they came to life only ultimately to die again after), not a resurrection to permanent life. Jesus’s resurrection transcends this category entirely. A distinctive feature of the Christian view of resurrection is that the dead are not only revived but also transformed. Along with Christ, a Christians’s resurrection at the end of this world will bring personal transformation and exaltation as well as the return of life. This transformation involves the whole person; what is raised and transformed is not some impersonal corpse but dead persons, who are transformed outwardly and inwardly — we’re not talking zombies here people. The Gospels describe a bodily resurrection with transformed properties: those raised to the resurrection “do not marry” and “cannot die anymore, because they are equal to the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.” (Luke 20:27-36) This describes not a disembodied spirit but an embodied existence fundamentally altered in nature. Everything we read about in scripture points overwhelmingly to bodily resurrection rather than purely spiritual continuation. Now go get your free copy of Dr. Shreiner’s book The Hope of the Resurrection at mbts.edu/wesley-huff-gi….

Episode 1 of our new Genesis series is out now! Join us every other week as we take a deep dive into the book of Genesis. This series is for anyone wanting to draw closer to God’s word and understand it with greater confidence. 🔗snip.ly/genesis.ep1

I think you might be thinking I’m saying something I’m not. God is speaking to himself inter-Trinitarianly. I agree that in Gen. 1:26 when I say, “God speaks to himself,” this reflects the communal inter-relational always-in -communion nature of God’s ontological status as being 3 in 1: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

In Genesis 1:26 God wasn’t speaking to Himself, He was speaking in the fullness of His divine power to the Son and the Holy Spirit. This reflects the Trinitarian nature of God. Here Wes Huff is speaking to Russell Brand on Brand’s show suggesting God is speaking to Himself. John Gill says of Genesis 1:26 “but they are spoken by God the Father to the Son and Holy Ghost, who were each of them concerned in the creation of all things, and particularly of man: hence we read of divine Creators and Makers in the plural number, Job 35:10”

Agostino Bonuccio was the Superior General of the Servite Order and a prominent voting member at the opening sessions of the Council of Trent. Just prior to the anethema being added to De Canonicis Scripturis (Concerning the Canonical Scriptures) at the 4th session of the Council of Trent, Bonuccio gave the opening sermon. Within it he says, "If you try to control everything, you expose all things to the danger of endless controversy and leave nothing to be discussed according to the good pleasure, the leisure, and the liberty of men of talent... The council should not try to resolve questions [on the canon] long disputed among reputable theologians…" There is a reason why the vote had 15 voting "no," 24 voting "yes," and 16 abstaining in its final decision. More of those present at the Council's 4th session voted either against or chose to abstain than voted to add the anathema and bind the conscience of the church.

If you’re arguing that “the Septuagint” or “the Dead Sea Scrolls,” both included certain books, and on that basis we must have those books in our Bibles today, then you have a big problem. Both “the Septuagint” and “the Dead Sea Scrolls” are mini-libraries — they include documents considered both scriptural and non-scriptural in their day. 

For example, the Letter of Aristeas, 3rd and 4th Maccabees, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Testament of Job, the Life of Adam and Eve, the Psalms of Solomon, and the Assumption of Moses are all part of the Septuagint collections. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, The Community Rule, recordings of the last words of Joseph, Judah, Levi, Naphtali, and Amram (the father of Moses) were amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls. Few (if any) of these books are considered scripture today by modern Christian or Jewish groups.

Both the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls are representative of ancient library collections — collections that contained scripture but that were not themselves wholly considered scripture. We today group them in these convenient categories with these helpful titles, but it is a misunderstanding to think of them as, or necessarily representative of, a single thing.

🚨 New Release! The Book of Psalms: A Polyglot Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac, and English texts of the Psalms are aligned per verse across traditions for scholarship and teaching. Repost if you wish to see polyglots for each book of the Bible in the coming months!

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1 Textual Scholar (@WesleyLHuff) vs 10 KJVOs The next @jubileemedia ?

Recently sat down and chatted with @MBTS's @pj_schreiner about his new book on the resurrection of Jesus (which we're also giving free copies of away)! Check it out 👇. youtu.be/1TMtHNW62Ak?si…

Agreed! Are you sitting down Bryan because I have some very exciting news for you on that very topic: youtu.be/HrP7PU3WL3c?si…