2022

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EARLY CHURCH ON JEWISH CHRISTIANS AND LAW OBSERVANCE Members Public

In this post I will cite from some of the church fathers and apologists of the first four hundred years in relation to their view of Torah keeping, especially in regards to Jewish Christians who continued to observe the Mosaic Law. All emphasis mine. IGNATIUS Chapter 8. Caution against false

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
church-historytorahjudaism

EARLY CHURCH’S VIEW OF THE SABBATH DAY Members Public

The current post has been adapted and modified from the following article: What the Early Church Believed: Sabbath or Sunday?. All emphasis shall be mine. The following quotations show that the first Christians understood that Sunday became the Lord’s Day as a result of Christ’s resurrection, and therefore

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
church-historychristianityworship

ISLAMIC FAIRYTALES ABOUT MUHAMMAD’S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD Members Public

In this post I am going to share some of the most outlandish and bizarre fairytales about Muhammad’s conception, birth and early childhood. These Muslim fables will show just how irrational and unbelievable Islam truly, and highlight the extent that Muhammad’s followers went to fabricate lies and myths

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamhadithsunnah

THOMAS AQUINAS’ EXEGESIS OF JOHN 10:29 VINDICATED Members Public

In this post I will examine Thomas Aquinas’ exegesis of John 10:28-30, specifically v. 29, where he interprets the text in respect to the eternal begetting of the Son, to the Father communicating/conferring his Deity to the Son in all of its fullness, albeit timelessly and eternally. I

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
theologytrinityjesus-christ

HILARY’S TRINITARIAN BELIEFS Members Public

In this post I will be quoting from the works of another early church father, namely Hilary of Poitiers, in respect to his Trinitarian beliefs. The citations will show that Hilary affirmed that the Son was timelessly begotten, and therefore not a creature, since the Son has been eternally God

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
trinitychurch-historytheology

THE RABBIS’ DILEMMA: WORSHIPING GOD’S ANGEL Members Public

The Tanakh prohibits the worship of any created being, including angels that dwell in the heavens above: “God spoke all these words, to respond: ‘I am the Lord, your God, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall not have the

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
angelsjudaismworship

THE CHURCH FATHERS ON THE GOD SEEN BY THE OT PROPHETS Members Public

In this short post I will be citing a portion from Ernest Evans’ English rendering of Tertullian’s refutation Marcion since the translator has an interesting footnote informing whom the early church fathers and writers believed was the God that the Old Testament saints saw. Here is the relevant section

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
church-historytheologytrinity

CHALLENGE TO THE RABBIS: SEEING THE GOD OF ISRAEL Members Public

In this post I will cite examples from the Hebrew Bible or [O]ld [T]estament where YHVH the one true God of Israel appeared visibly to various individuals. Some of these visible encounters include God eating actual food and physically wrestling someone till daybreak! My purpose is to challenge

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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