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SOME FACTS ABOUT JEROME

I am reposting this from the following site: What we probably don’t know about St. Jerome is just . What we probably don’t know about St. Jerome is just what we need to know Meg Hunter-Kilmer – published on 09/28/17 He was singularly agitated, impatient, and proud … but

THE QURAN’S SLANDER AGAINST THE PROPHETS

It’s time to turn the tables against Muhammadans by employing their own objection against the Holy Bible to their own sources, to show them how their texts fail to live up to their own standards and criteria. In this post I will take the assertion that the Holy Bible

REFUTING THE SKEPTICS: THE TEXTUAL VERACITY OF LUKE 22:43-44

I am reposting this in-depth blog article by James Snapp Jr. defending the textual veracity of Luke 22;43-44: Video Lecture 20: Luke 22:43-44: Jesus in Gethsemane. The 20th video lecture in the series Introduction to NT Textual Criticism is accessible at YouTube and at Bitchute. This lecture is

MUHAMMADAN JALAL PROVES JESUS IS GOD!

Muslim dawagandist Jalal Abualrub in a book written to castigate the Shia raises certain arguments, which actually prove that, according to the inspired New Testament writings, Jesus claimed to be God Almighty in the flesh (even though he is not the Father or the Holy Spirit). Note, for instance what

MARY: ISRAEL PERSONIFIED

The Holy Bible depicts our Lord’s blessed mother as typifying or personifying the nation of Israel by taking language, which is reminiscent to the way the Hebrew Scriptures portray God’s people, and ascribing it to her. For instance, the nation is collectively addressed as the virgin daughter of

Is there Archeological Support for the Reliability of the Gospels?

Gregory Boyd January 8, 2008 One of the many tests historians typically submit documents to in accessing their historical reliability concerns the extent to which archeology supports or undermines the historic claims the document makes. So we need to investigate the extent to which archeology confirms, or refutes, aspects of

How Reliable were the Early Church’s Oral Traditions?

Gregory Boyd November 3, 2021 How reliable were the early church’s oral traditions? In terms of assessing the reliability of the Gospels, this is an extremely important question. First century Jewish culture was what scholars today would call an “orally dominated culture.” While a certain percentage of people could

JUSTIN MARTYR ON THE JEWISH CORRUPTION OF THE SCRIPTURES

2nd century Church apologist and holy martyr Justin Martyr states that the Jews of his day not only rejected the Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Septuagint [LXX]), but that they also removed clear prophecies of Jesus’ Deity, crucifixion and resurrection from their own copies of the

AUGUSTINE ON JESUS BEING THE ANGEL OF YHVH

Here is a quote from Augustine’s Tractates on John where he clearly affirmed that Jesus is the Angel of God who appeared throughout the Hebrew Bible as both God and God’s Angel/Messenger: 7. Lastly, what did those men who saw this miracle think? The men, says he,

THOMAS AQUINAS’ EXEGESIS OF JOHN 10:29 VINDICATED

In this post I will examine Thomas Aquinas’ exegesis of John 10:28-30, specifically v. 29, where he interprets the text in respect to the eternal begetting of the Son, to the Father communicating/conferring his Deity to the Son in all of its fullness, albeit timelessly and eternally. I