Islamic Procreation As Sex Jihad Paid Members Public
According to the so-called authentic Sunni narrations, Muhammad disliked and discouraged his followers marrying barren, infertile women. Rather, he preferred and commanded them to marry young virgins and fertile women so that there would be a greater number of Muslims than non-Muslims. 67 Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah) (10) Chapter: The marrying
Abraham: Justified by Faithfulness Paid Members Public
In this article I will provide further evidence that Paul, and by extension the NT, teach(es) that people are saved/justified their faithfulness to God. I will employ the Apostle’s example of Abraham to prove my case. Here’s what he wrote: “Thus Abraham “believed God, and it
Martyrdom of Peter’s Wife Paid Members Public
According to Clement of Alexandria, there was a tradition which stated that Peter’s wife was martyred as the blessed Apostle looked and encouraged her: They say, accordingly, that the blessed Peter, on seeing his wife led to death, rejoiced on account of her call and conveyance home, and called
Justin Martyr on Isa. 42:8 & Christ’s Glory Paid Members Public
In this post I will be excerpting a section from St. Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, in which the blessed saint sets out to prove the following: 1. The Scriptures are inerrant, having no real contradictions. 2. The Jewish elders reject specific verses from the Greek version
Augustine on the Holy Eucharist Paid Members Public
According to noted Protestant historian J.N.D Kelly, St. Augustine did indeed affirm that the Eucharist does in fact become the actual flesh, body and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: If Ambrose’s influence helped to mediate the doctrine of a physical change to the West,
Tertullian: Trinity is the Faith of the Ancient Church Paid Members Public
In refuting the modalist heretic named Praxeas, the second-third century AD North African Apologist Tertullian stresses the fact that belief in the Trinity has always been the ancient belief of the Church, much older than the hereies spewed by Praxeus and others. Here’s what he wrote: Chapter 2. The
Polycarp, Pope Anicetus, Irenaeus & Easter Paid Members Public
Church historian Eusebius recorded the early controversy that arose among the faithful in respect to the celebration of Easter. Some Christians such as Polycarp insisted that the Church should follow the example within the Gospels by observing it on the fourteenth day of Nisan, which is the date fixed by
Chrysostom & Petrine Primacy Paid Members Public
I share some of the many statements from St. John Chrysostom, one of the greatest saints biblical exegetes of the Church, affirming the primacy of Peter. These citations attest that Chrysostom held to Peter being the Rock and Leaders of the universal Church, having been given a preeminence over the