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PROVERBS 8:22-36: THE ETERNALLY BEGOTTEN SON

The following is taken from The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecies: Studies and Expositions of the Messiah in the Old Testament, eds. Michael Rydelnik & Edwin Blum, published by Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL 2019, pp. 739-746. All emphasis will be mine. Proverbs 8 The Messiah: Personiﬁcation of Divine Wisdom SETH

20 Errors Common to Antitrinitarian Heresies

Robert M. Bowman Jr. 1. They accuse the doctrine of the Trinity of teaching three Gods. 2. They assume that one being must be one and only person, even in God. 3. They understand the Trinity to mean that the three persons are three “parts” of God. 4. They object

Explaining the Trinity to the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jay Hess1 The Jehovah’s Witnesses2 (hereafter abbreviated as J-Ws) hold to an Arian-like theology insisting that the Father alone is the One True God with the Son being Michael the archangel who is above all other angels. Angels, including Michael, are said to be gods, inferior to the One

THE GOD WHO INHERITS? ANTI-TRINITARIANS REFUTED

The God-breathed Scriptures testify that Jesus is the Heir whom the Father has appointed to create sustain and possess all creation: “Now the landowner had one son whom he loved dearly. He sent him last, thinking, They will respect my son. But those tenant farmers said to each other, ‘This

MUHAMMAD PLAGIARIZES JESUS’ WORDS

In this short post I will share three cases where Muhammad took and twisted the words of the Lord Jesus to make it fit with his theology. FIRST EXAMPLE “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On

THE TRINITY IN TARGUM NEOFITI

In this post I will be quoting the interpretation of Genesis found in the Targum Neofiti, which is a Jewish paraphrase of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic. This ancient version furnishes evidence that there were specific non-Christian Jews that clearly saw from their reading of Genesis a plurality of divine

MESSIANIC PROPHECIES PT. 3: THE TIME OF MESSIAH’S APPEARANCE

There are two passages in the Hebrew Bible which speak of God doing something amazingly miraculous during the second Temple. The first comes from the book of Haggai: “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet, saying: Say

The Messiah Revealed Pt. 3

I proceed with a discussion of Psalm 22: The Messiah Revealed Pt. 2. Psalm 22 – The Crucifixion of Jesus Old Testament Prophecy – Psalm 22 New Testament Comparison v. 1: “My God, My God why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46: “About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a

RABBINIC JUDAISM ON THE TIME OF MESSIAH’S APPEARANCE

In this post I will quote some of the statements of Jewish rabbis who, on the basis of texts such as Daniel 9:24-27, believed that the Messiah was supposed to show up right around the same time that Jesus appeared on the scene claiming to be the Messiah of

The Messiah Revealed Pt. 4

We now arrive at the final part of the series: The Messiah Revealed Pt. 3. Here’s a brief comparison with what rabbinic teaches concerning the Messiah and the New Testament portray of Christ. Jewish Scriptures & ThoughtNew Testament ComparisonOther quotations taken from the Jewish Scriptures include the promise of