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YHWH: THE ONLY TRUE ELOHIM Paid Members Public
In this post I share some of the manifold verses that go out of their way to affirm that YHWH the God of Israel is the only true God whom all nations are commanded to worship and serve. YHWH is the name of the only true God. “Then Moses said
NUMBERS 5:22 IS NOT ABOUT ABORTION! Paid Members Public
In this short post I will quote a slew of verses in regards to the correct interpretation of Numbers 5:22 to refute the shameful lie of those who seek to justify murdering unborn babies. These bible perverts look for certain translations which, sadly, misinterpret this passage in such a
JESUS’ GOD PT. 2 Paid Members Public
REFUTING ANOTHER UNITARIAN CANARD I continue from where I previously left off: JESUS’ GOD PT. 1. In this post I will show that the very inspired writings which these anti-Trinitarians appeal to emphatically affirm that Jesus is God in an absolute sense, being one with the Father and Spirit in
JESUS’ GOD PT. 1 Paid Members Public
REFUTING ANOTHER UNITARIAN CANARD Unitarians and other non-Trinitarians will often appeal to statements where Christ and his followers refer to the Father as Jesus’ God. Case in point: “Jesus said to her, ‘Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers
JESUS THE NAZARENE AND MATTHEW’S GENEALOGY Paid Members Public
In this post I will be citing Dr. David H. Stern’s Jewish New Testament Commentary, published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. 1992, pp. 42-43, where Stern explains how Joseph made Jesus his legal heir by accepting him as his son, thereby conferring upon the Lord his legal descent
JESUS AS THEOS IN HEBREWS Paid Members Public
One of the places in which Jesus is called God is in the inspired epistles to Hebrews: “but of the Son he says, ‘Your throne, O God (ho theos), is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
JESUS: THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD Paid Members Public
The Scriptures distinguish the true God from the other so-called gods by identifying him as the God of the Patriarchs, i.e., the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The sacred writings further do so by referring to him as the God of Israel: “Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and
MELCHIZEDEK REVISITED Paid Members Public
In this post I extract the section on Melchizedek from James Kugel’s book, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era, Chapter 8. Melchizedek (GENESIS 14:17-20), published by Harvest University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England, in 1998.