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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
The Lord Jesus Christ – the Holy, Pure Son of God Paid Members Public
Examining the Deity of Christ in light of his absolute moral perfection Sam Shamoun The website www.muslimconverts.com has published a transcript of a lecture that was given more than twenty five years ago by a Muslim apologist/polemicist named Steve Johnson (a.k.a. Farukh Abdallah). In the
Jesus Christ – The Omniscient Son of God Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun In this article, I will be quoting verses from the New Testament writings to affirm that the Lord Jesus Christ knows all things such as knowing the hearts of all people, which is one of the essential attributes of God. The purpose in compiling this list of references
Jesus as “a god” alongside God: Jehovah’s Witnesses and John 1:1 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun {Muslims occasionally use the writings of the JWs to support their arguments against the Deity of Jesus. Therefore it is relevant to examine and answer their claims also in the context of discussions with Muslims.} There has been much discussion regarding the translation of John 1:1 and