2019

Muslims will argue that Allah is a singular person, though they may not employ that specific term, on the basis of Quranic texts which state that the Islamic deity is one. They further base this on the fact that the Quran often ascribes singular verbs, adjectives, pronouns, etc. to Allah.

In this post, I am going to cite some of the biblical texts that apply the term God to Jesus. The prophet Isaiah announced that a virgin would conceive and give birth to a Son who would be called Immanuel: “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold,

I proceed from where I previously left off (/2019/12/03/pauls-divine-christology-pt-2/). THE USE OF THEOS IN REFERENCE TO CHRIST I am going to examine all the places where God describes Jesus as God, starting with the following: “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the

I continue from where I left off (/2019/11/27/pauls-divine-christology-pt-1/). ISRAEL’S ONE LORD At the heart of the Hebrew Bible is the affirmation that Jehovah is one, meaning the only God whom the Israelites were to look to and worship: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is

According to the God-breathed Scriptures our Lord had asked his Jewish interlocutors how could the Messiah be the Son of David when the latter worshiped him as his very own Lord by revelation from the Holy Spirit: “While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them, ‘What do you think of

In this series we will be revisiting (https://answeringislam.net/Quran/Contra/jesus_unlike_adam.html) the Quran’s assertion that Jesus is similar to Adam in the sight of the Muslim deity: Verily, in the sight of God, the nature of Jesus is as the nature of Adam, whom

In this series, I am going to go through the inspired letters of Paul to show how this beloved Apostle proclaimed the absolute, essential Deity of Christ. I will point to texts where Paul clearly describes the risen Jesus as the God of Israel who became flesh. There are various

Another way in which the New Testament writers identify Jesus Christ as the human enfleshment/embodiment of Jehovah God is by their taking what is basically the creedal statement of the Hebrew Bible and Christianizing it. The following is considered by many to be the one command that defines the

Unitarians have come up with another objection to the Deity of the Lord Jesus. They use to argue that Psalm 110:1 calls the Messiah adoni, a word never used for Jehovah, but only employed for non-divine persons. After being thoroughly refuted on this point, Revisiting the implications that Psalm

We come to the final segment of the rebuttal (/2019/11/16/was-aisha-really-only-nine-pt-3/). References [1] Amjad, M. “The Learner” (1998). “What was Ayesha’s (ra) Age at the Time of Her Marriage?” Understanding Islam. http://www.understanding-islam.com/q-and-a/sources-of-islam/what-was-ayesha-s-ra-age-at-the-time-of-her-marriage-to-the-prophet-pbuh Saleem, R. M. (2008). “Age of Al-Sayyida Aisha When