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A collection of 19 issues

Justin, Pagans & Gods

I quote St. Justin Martyr’s second defense of the Christian faith to the pagan rulers where he states that the gods worshiped by the Gentiles are actually the fallen, rebellious angels and the demons they sired from women who deceived them into thinking they were the divine beings worshiped

YHWH MAKES THE MOST HIGH HIS REFUGE

Psalm 91 is a citation applied by Satan to Jesus when he tempted our Lord in the desert: “Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself

Nyssa on the Angel of God

I quote what the great St. Gregory of Nyssa wrote in respect to the divine Angel that appeared to Moses being the prehuman Son of God in his work titled Against Eunomius, Book XI. Gregory refutes the assertion that God spoke through a created angel whim he used as his

Chrysostom and the Angel of the Lord

Here is what this great saint had to say in his exegesis of Acts 7:30, in respect to the Angel that appeared to Moses: And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of

Origen and the Worship of Angels

Origen is often misquoted as denying that Christians were to pray to or invoke angels or the saints in heaven to intercede for believers on earth. They base this on Origen’s response to the Christian critic and pagan Celsus, whom this prolific Christian wrote a thorough refutation to. In

Judaism, God as an Angel & Malachi 3:1

According to the Talmud, it was God himself who appeared as the Angel in the pillar of cloud/fire in Exodus 13:21: Another matter: “Behold, I am sending an angel” – the Holy One blessed be He said to Israel: Had you merited, I, Myself, would have become a messenger

Hermas’ Mediating Angel

The Shepherd of Hermas was a very popular work, which some Christians even wanted to include in the canon. An interesting aspect of this writing is that Hermas has an angel whom he beseeches or begs to assist him in understanding the parable that was being revealed to him. The

JESUS CHRIST: MICHAEL’S GOD PT. 2

The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense, authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Chapter 19: Is Jesus Christ an Angel?, Part 3: The Name of Jesus:

JESUS CHRIST: MICHAEL’S GOD

The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense, authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Chapter 19: Is Jesus Christ an Angel?, Part 3: The Name of Jesus:

ANGELS WORSHIP JESUS AS YHWH

The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense, authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Chapter 5: Worship of Jesus, Part 1: Crown Him with Many Crowns: Jesus’