The Lord Jesus Christ – The Divine Recipient of Worship Paid Members Public
Examining the Synoptic Gospels’ use of proskyneo in relation to Christ Sam Shamoun According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, worship or proskyneo should be given to God: “And the devil took him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and
Revisiting the Issue of Jesus Praying to and Worshiping God Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun Despite the fact that in the following articles and rebuttals, * If Jesus is God … was he praying to himself? * Since Jesus has a God, how can he be God himself? * Jesus Christ – Our risen Lord and our great God! * Jesus Christ – Our Lord And Our God! I have
Jesus Christ – An Essential Pillar of Islamic Monotheism Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun According to specific Islamic sources Allah exalted Muhammad’s fame by conjoining the latter’s name to his own person thereby making him one of the pillars of Tawhid, or Islamic monotheism: Qatada said, “Allah exalted his fame in this world and the Next. There is no speaker,
The Hebrew Bible Testifies – The Messiah Is As Old As God is! Pt. 3 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We come to the final part of our discussion. The Rabbinic and Christian Understanding of Messiah’s Preexistence Suffice it to say, texts such as Micah 5:2 led some of the Jews to embrace the notion of the Messiah’s preexistence, or at least the preexistence of
The Hebrew Bible Testifies – The Messiah Is As Old As God is! Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We continue from where we left off. Now it begins to make sense The exegesis of Micah 5:2 offered here helps us to make sense out of all the OT passages which explicitly say that Yahweh himself will come down from heaven to Zion in order to
The Hebrew Bible Testifies: The Messiah Is As Old As God is! Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun In this article we are going to revisit one of the OT passages which we briefly addressed in this earlier paper in order to show from the Hebrew Bible that the true prophets of God testified that the Messiah is actually an eternal Person, e.g. God, who
Jesus Christ – The Archangel Michael or Michael’s Creator? Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun There are certain pseudo-Christian cults such as the Jehovah Witnesses which believe that Jesus Christ is actually the archangel Michael. They further take this to mean that Jesus is not the eternal God but a highly exalted spirit creature, in fact the greatest of all created spirit beings,
Islam Agrees – Jesus Has No Beginning! Paid Members Public
How Muslim reasoning leads to belief in the uncreatedness of Christ Sam Shamoun This article will be quite short. According to orthodox Sunni beliefs, the Quran is the speech or word of Allah and is therefore uncreated. Muslim scholars have reasoned that Allah’s speech cannot be created since it