2024
2024 articles
PETER & THE DEITY OF CHRIST Paid Members Public
In this post I will furnish another case to illustrate why translations matter. I will be focusing on the inspired witness of the letters that the Spirit moved Peter to compose, commonly known as the Petrine Epistles. These letters explicitly state that they were composed by Peter, and that the
Justin Martyr’s “Subordinationism” Paid Members Public
The Definitive Case against Rev. Dr. Christiaan Kappes Seventy-five years ago, Angelomorphic Christology or Angel-Christ theology was pretty much unknown. Its scholarly reemphasis and popular rediscovery has solved numerous alleged problems with interpretation of the Old and New Testaments from both a scholarly and popular point of view. This, like
15 Eerie Similarities Between Islam & Mormonism Paid Members Public
By Cameron Bertuzzi of Capturing Christianity. Here’s the video for this post: 15 Reasons Why Islam and Mormonism are Fake. Two men. Two alleged prophets. One from the deserts of Arabia, the other from the hills of New York. Both claimed to bring the final, ultimate truth. But what
PLINY & CHRIST’S DEITY Paid Members Public
In this post I will quote an ancient non-Christian witness, specifically from a pagan governor, which testifies to the fact of Christians gathering on a specific day of the week to worship Christ as God by singing hymns to him. The source that I am about cite also mentions some
HEBREWS 2:9 & SYRIAC CHRISTOLOGY PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue my discussion of the variants of Hebrews 2:9 and its impact on Christology and soteriology: HEBREWS 2:9 & SYRIAC CHRISTOLOGY. One of the most interesting, in fact remarkable, variants of Hebrews 2:9 is found in the Syriac translation known as the Peshitta. According to this
ISLAM’S DEVOLUTION! JEWISH PIGS & APES Paid Members Public
The Quran asserts that Allah punished a certain group of Jews by transforming them into apes and pigs: And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated! S. 2:65 Shall I tell thee of a worse
TEXTUAL CRITICISM & CHRIST’S DEITY Paid Members Public
Modern New Testament textual critics prefer what is typically known as reasoned eclecticism. This position holds to the belief that the earliest papyri, specifically those manuscripts (MSS) classified as the Alexandrian text type, and the major codices (e.g., Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus etc.) are to be prioritized since this is
ALMSGIVING & ATONEMENT Paid Members Public
In the Greek translation of Daniel, which is longer than the Hebrew version, teaches that almsgiving or giving charity is an atonement for sins: “Therefore, O king, let my counsel please thee, and atone for thy sins by alms, and [thine] iniquities by compassion on the poor: it may be