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ANOTHER BILE ERROR: TAKE A STAFF OR NOT? Paid Members Public
Skeptics claim that Mark contradicts Matthew and Luke in that the former states that Jesus instructed his followers to take a staff with them as they embarked on their missionary journey, where Matthew and Luke record Jesus forbidding them from doing so. I will let the late Dr. Gleason L.
JEREMIAH OR ZECHARIAH: AN ERROR IN MATTHEW? Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from the late Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s book, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 1982, p. 350. Why does Matthew 27:9 attribute to Jeremiah a prophecy from Zechariah? Matthew 27:9-10 describes the purchase of Potter’s
UNITARIAN DEBATE NOTES Paid Members Public
These are the notes for my debate with Stacy Turbeville, “Is Unitarianism Biblical?” SINGULAR NOUNS/PRONOUNS/VERBS/PARTICIPLES USED FOR CORPORATE ENTITIES The Holy Bible will often employ the singular in references to a multitude of individuals that form a solidarity, a corporate body so to speak. What this shows
JWS ADMIT: JESUS IS THE ETERNAL CREATOR! Paid Members Public
Paul, in Colossians 1:15-17, describes Jesus as the eternal Creator and Sustainer of all creation: “who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him were ALL THINGS created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones
MOSES’ STAFF: ANOTHER QURANIC BLUNDER Paid Members Public
The Quran garbles out the encounter between God and Moses at the burning bush. For instance, in one place the Muslim scripture claims that Moses’ staff appeared to him as a living entity: Has there come to you the history of Moses When he saw a fire (in the desert)
GOSPEL AUTHORSHIP Paid Members Public
In this post I share some of the earliest surviving evidence for the authorship of the Gospel. In one of the references, I quote Irenaeus who was a disciple of Polycarp, who himself was a disciple of the Apostles such as the Apostle John. This is significant since it provides
MATTHEW 27:9-10: A MISTAKEN ATTRIBUTION? Paid Members Public
Some critics of the Holy Bible claim that Matthew false and mistakenly attributed a prophecy from Zechariah 11:13 to the prophet Jeremiah (cf. Matt. 27:9-10). Here I will cite the lengthy refutation to this argument from Dr. Michael L. Brown’s book, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, Volume
Q. 2:75-79 & THE CORRUPT QURAN Paid Members Public
I resume the discussion: Q. 2:75-79 AND BIBLE CORRUPTION. In this post I am going to take the same objection leveled against the Holy Scriptures and apply it to the Quran as to show that it is the Muslim scripture that has been corrupted and altered. Recall from the