Sam Shamoun

The New World Translation Proves Jesus Reigns as Jehovah in Heaven! Members Public

Unless indicated otherwise I will be employing the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (2013 Revision). The readers can access the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ (JWs) various Bible translations from their website: Online Bible. In this post I am going to apply the Society’s own reasoning, which they employ

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Sam Shamoun
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The Garbled-Up Quran: Muhammad’s Confusion of Figures and Names Members Public

The Quran claims to be a fully detailed scripture that clearly explains all things that it references: [Say (O Muhammad)] “Shall I seek a judge other than Allah while it is He Who has sent down unto you the Book (The Qur’an), explained in detail.” Those unto whom We

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Sam Shamoun
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MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 2 Members Public

I continue from where I previously left off: MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 1. Second Prophecy: The Messianic Star from Egypt. In the book of numbers the Holy Spirit inspired a false prophet named Balaam to see and proclaim the coming of a Ruler from Jacob, whom Balaam described as a

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Sam Shamoun
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JOHN 17:3 AND THE ONLY TRUE GOD Members Public

COMMENTARY Jesus states emphatically that eternal life is this:  Knowing the Father in an intimate way as well as His Son.  Salvation depends on knowing both Father and Son.  Jesus is the “way, the truth, and the life.”  No one comes to the Father but through the Son, for it

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Sam Shamoun
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JESUS AS GOD IN ROMANS 9:5 Members Public

COMMENTARY In verses 1-5 of this chapter of Romans, Paul focuses on the tension between God’s promises to Israel and Israel’s plight. The people to whom God has promised so much have, apparently, rejected God’s most profound revelation – His Son. In this verse, Paul presents the last

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Sam Shamoun
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JESUS AS GOD IN JOHN 20:28 Members Public

COMMENTARY The confession of Thomas, coming as it does at the climax of John’s Gospel, is perhaps the clearest affirmation of Christ’s deity in the Bible. It is clear, despite various theories to the contrary (see “Other views Considered,” below), that Thomas was speaking directly to Jesus. The

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Sam Shamoun
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1 COR. 8 AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Members Public

COMMENTARY Paul draws a contrast between false deities and the Father and Son. Whereas the pagan deities are false, there is to us “one God, the Father”, and “one Lord, Jesus Christ”. He maintains a distinction of Personality between the Father and Son by assigning a different title of Deity

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Sam Shamoun
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THE EARLY CHURCH ON THE ETERNAL BEGETTING OF THE SON Members Public

In this very short post, I will cite a few early church fathers and writers who all affirm the uncreated, eternal nature of the Son. Chapter 6. Preserve harmony Since therefore I have, in the persons before mentioned, beheld the whole multitude of you in faith and love, I exhort

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Sam Shamoun
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