Jesus’ “Brothers” & Mary’s Virginity Paid Members Public
In this post I will be extracting the statements made by José M. Pedrozo in his article The “Brothers of Jesus and his Mother’s Virginity”, published in The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, Volume 63, Number 1, January 1999, pp. 83-104. Pedroza demonstrates that the view held by Epiphanius
The Relatives of the Lord Paid Members Public
In this post I will be citing extracts from Eusebius’ monumental work , written in the first quarter of the fourth century AD. I will be focusing primarily on what he says in respect to the relatives of our Lord, where the historian relies heavily on the five-volume work of a
Mary, Ark, Heavenly Queen & Rev. 12 Paid Members Public
The following quotes are taken from Peter S. Williamson’s commentary, Revelation (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture), published by Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI 2015. The result of this extraordinary vindication is that great fear falls upon those who witness it, like the fear that fell on the Egyptians (Ps
Epiphanius, Trinity & Mary’s Virginity Paid Members Public
The extracts in this post are taken from the English rendering of The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis Books II and III. De Fide (Second, revised Edition), translated by Frank Williams [Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013], Volume 79, from the section titled “Against Antidicomarians 1 58, but 78 of the series”, pp.
The Son Becomes God’s Sin-Offering Paid Members Public
In two passages, the Apostle Paul depicts Christ’s death in respect to the OT sacrificial system, employing a particular Greek term which the Greek rendering of the Hebrew Bible applies for the offerings made for sins. The texts in question are: “That which the Law, weakened by the flesh,
The Bible on Justification Paid Members Public
In this post I will be sharing some of the verses which describe the various ways believers are justified or made righteous. JUSTIFIED BY GOD “For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God! For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed
Leibniz, Logic & the Trinity Paid Members Public
The following excerpts are taken from Maria Rosa Antognazza’s Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century, translated by Gerald Parks, and published by Yale University Press in 2007. All emphasis will be mine. Having overcome the first two objections regarding, respectively, the
Unitarian Logic Gone Wild! Paid Members Public
There is an attempt among certain analytic philosophers and/or apologists to prove that the Father is identical to the one God of holy Scripture. These include unitarians and Arians who deny the Trinity and/or reject the Divinity of Christ altogether. This group even include specific Trinitarians who also