2025
2025 articles
MEDIATION IN ISLAM Paid Members Public
There are certain narrations that are deemed to be authentic according to Sunni Islam, which plainly show Muhammad’s followers using either him or someone close to him as a means of mediating between the Islamic god and his followers. Take, for instance, the following hadiths which speak of gazing
EARLY CHURCH & PRAYERS OF SAINTS Paid Members Public
The following citations were compiled by William Albrecht. They document the widespread belief in the prayers/intercessions of angels and saints for believers on earth. All emphasis will be mine. Shepherd of Hermas (AD 89-145) Chapter 4 I prayed him much that he would explain to me the similitude of
A GOAT’S JIHAD ON STONING & SUCKLING Paid Members Public
The sunni Islamic traditions contain some rather silly and embarrassing narrations, which have caused many a Muslim shame and humiliation. Take, for example, the claim that Muhammad ordered a woman to breastfeed a mature young man a number of times in order to make him her foster-son! Or the fact
PRAYING TO SAINTS Paid Members Public
The following is taken from this post: Prayers to Saints in the Pre-Nicene Era – Energetic Procession. It is commonly claimed that the practice of praying to departed saints and to angels is a late development in Christianity, probably post-dating the Council of Nicea. In this post, I will try to
FATIMAH’S MUSHAF: ANOTHER DILEMMA Paid Members Public
According to the authoritative Shia traditions, “Gabriel” came to Muhammad’s daughter Fatimah shortly after her father’s death and gave her “revelations” which Ali her husband wrote down. This revelation is known as the Mushaf of Fatimah, which some have variously rendered as the “Quran,” “Parchment,” or “Book” of
The Holy Spirit: Jesus’ Divine Mother? Paid Members Public
In his commentary on Isaiah, St. Jerome quotes a Gospel attributed to certain Jewish sects that identified the Holy Spirit as a female and thought that the Spirit was Jesus’ mother. This Gospel also claims it was the Holy Spirit who spoke to Christ at the latter’s baptism, where
PS. 2:7 & ETERNAL GENERATION PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off. GOD’S CONTINUOUS “TODAY” In this part I will be focusing on the term used in Psalm 2:7, namely, “today” (semeron): “So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said
PS. 2:7 & ETERNAL GENERATION PT. 1 Paid Members Public
In this post I am going to examine the [N]ew [T]estament use of Psalm 2:7 in respect to the eternal begetting/generation of the Son. I will provide some of the exegetical reasons why so many of the early church fathers/writers saw this as an [O]