Oldest Extant Invocation to Mary Paid Members Public
The information posted here is uploaded from the following article: The original papyrus fragment. In 1917, a stunning treasure came to the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England. It was a piece of papyrus, Egyptian in origin. On this fragment, in Greek, is inscribed a hymn to Mary, called in
THE BIBLICAL GOD VERSUS THE MORMON GODS Paid Members Public
I begin a series of posts where I contrast the teachings of God’s only inspired Revelation, the Holy Bible, with the beliefs of Mormonism. THE ISSUE OF CREATION Not only does Mormonism butcher the Holy Scriptures by misinterpreting them, it even goes as far as to rewrite God’s
The Mormon Dilemma Paid Members Public
A typical ploy among modern day Mormon apologists is to appeal to texts where the Father is said to be the only true God as a way of proving their belief that Jesus is not a member of a Triune Godhead, but is some a secondary, inferior Deity. For instance,
St. Bernard on the Glorious Form of Jesus Paid Members Public
The quotation cited here is taken from St. Bernard's Sermons On The Canticle Of Canticles: Volume 2. COPYRIGHT © 2024 BY eCatholic2000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN BY A PRIEST OF MOUNT MELLERAY VOLUMES 1 & 2. BROWNE AND NOLAN, LIMITED ST. BERNARD, O.CIST. Doctor
Jesus: The Uncreated God Paid Members Public
The lengthy excerpt which I present here is taken from Michael F. Bird’s Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World, published by Baylor University Press, Waco, TX in 2022], I. Jesus and Ancient Divinity, 2. The Search for Divine Ontology, pp. 59-70. All emphasis will be
Dan: Antichrist’s Tribe and Lineage? Paid Members Public
In the following post I quoted from some early Christian sources showing how certain Christians believed that the antichrist would arise from Dan: Dan: The Tribe of Antichrist. Here I will share the biblical verses, which would have led these Christian writers to conclude that Dan is the tribe of
Abraham’s Seed that Blesses the World: Jesus Christ! Paid Members Public
Unless noted otherwise I will be citing the Authorized King James Version (AV) of the Holy Bible. The AV has the advantage of notifying the readers when the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek languages, which the inspired Scriptures were written in, employ second person singular verbs, participles, adjectives and/or pronouns
Pistis = Faithfulness Paid Members Public
Here is how A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (commonly referred to as BDAG) defines the Greek word employed within the writings of the New Testament: πίστις, εως, ἡ ⟦pístis⟧ (Hes., Hdt.+; ranging in meaning from subjective confidence to objective basis for confidence). 1