Bill Nieporte, Pastor

Richmond, Virginia

Tag Archives: trinitarianism

Interview w/Paul Molnar: The Giver and the Gift

By: billnieporte | Date: November 22, 2011 | Categories: Trinitarian Theology

Introduction: Welcome to this unique interview series  devoted to practical implications of Trinitarian Theology. Our guest today is  Dr. Paul Molnar. Mike Feazell: Paul Molnar is a Catholic Theologian and Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John’s University in New York. He is author of Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity, Incarnation and Resurrection, [...]

The Faith of Christ, by C. Baxter Kruger

By: billnieporte | Date: October 26, 2011 | Categories: Trinitarian Theology, Who Is Jesus?

The following article was brought to my attention by Steve McVey on his blog site.   It addresses well an issue in biblical interpretation which, when understood, takes all the responsibility for salvation (including that for faith) off of YOU and ME, and places it on the only one who could actually make it happen, namely [...]

Knowing God As Trinity

By: billnieporte | Date: October 20, 2011 | Categories: Trinitarian Theology

Know God as Trinity “means that God is not some remote, unknowable Deity, a prisoner in his aloofness or shut up in his solitariness, but on the contrary, the God who will not be without us whom he has created for fellowship with himself, the God who is free to go outside of himself, to [...]

Shocking Love by Baxter Kruger

By: billnieporte | Date: August 2, 2011 | Categories: "I'm Just Saying...", Trinitarian Theology

Shocking Love By C. Baxter Kruger Sometimes the simplest thoughts cascade into revolutions. What if it was not the wrath of God that Jesus suffered on the cross, but the wrath of the human race? What if it was our bitterness and scorn and judgment and hostility—not the Father’s or the Holy Spirit’s—that  was poured [...]

Baxter Kruger on The New Covenant

By: billnieporte | Date: July 19, 2011 | Categories: Trinitarian Theology

The new covenant is the new relationship established in Jesus’ own experience between the blessed Trinity and broken, sinful humanity. In Jesus the Father, Son and Spirit have reached us in our traumatic darkness, and established a real relationship with us at our very worst. Our contribution was to crucify the Father’s Son. Dying in [...]

Your God Isn’t Angry With You

By: billnieporte | Date: December 2, 2010 | Categories: Bible Studies, Evangelism

In a recent post (What Happened At The Cross? –  http://nieporte.name/?p=1017) I stated my conviction that the “penal substitution” view of atonement was not generated from within the scripture, but imposed upon it from the outside.  I also stated, from my viewpoint as a Trinitarian, that such a view gave God something of a multiple-personality [...]