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William Lane Craig is Dangerous! Members Public

The following post is taken from: William Lane Craig’s Dangerous views on Scripture: William Lane Craig’s Dangerous views on Scripture. Welcome to Defender’s Voice. This is Dr.Paul. Thank you for joining us today. Please send me your questions to [email protected]. To support this ministry,

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Syriac Sinaiticus’ Gospel Variants Members Public

The Syriac Sinaiticus codex is a 4th century AD manuscript, which contains the oldest translations of the Gospels into the Syriac language: The Syriac Sinaiticus,  a late 4th century codex also known also as the Sinaitic Palimpsest or the Codex Syriacus, contains a translation of the four canonical gospels of

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Qanah: Create or Acquire? Members Public

One of the OT texts, which was widely appealed to in the early Christian centuries as the very words of Christ in his prehuman existence, is Proverbs 8:22-36. There, God’s Wisdom describes herself as already being there with YHWH from before the creation of the world. The

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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An EO’s New Testament Translation Members Public

In this post I will be quoting select references from Eastern Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart’s The New Testament: A Translation, published by Yale University Press in 2017. As the readers will see, Hart rendering of specific Christological texts is far from Orthodox, and even smacks of outright Arianism.

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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1 Cor. 8:6: The Christian Shema Members Public

In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians written around 55 AD, he states the following: “to us there is only one God, the Father (heis Theos ho pater), from whom everything comes, and for who we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ (heis Kyrios ‘Iesous Christos), by

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JOHN 5:23 Members Public

An article by Robert Hommel. 23 so that all will honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. Commentary Jesus now reveals the reason that all judgment has been given to Him: So that

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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TRENT ON GENESIS AS HISTORY Members Public

The following excerpt is taken from The Catechism of the Council of Trent, pp. 41-43. It shows that the official Catholic position on the Genesis account of creation is that it is actual sacred history, and not mythology. All emphasis will be mine. Not Three Almighties But One Almighty

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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IRENAEUS ON MARK 16:9-20 Members Public

This post is taken from James Snapp’s blog: The Text of the Gospels: Craig Evans and the Ending of Mark. Craig Evans and the Ending of Mark A prominent evangelical commentator has spread misinformation about an important text-critical question. I wrote this post as a means of doing

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Sam Shamoun
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