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In-depth examinations of Scripture, textual reliability, theological themes, and defense of biblical doctrine.

MICHAEL: ONE AMONG SEVERAL RULERS Members Public

The New Testament explicitly identifies Michael as an archangel: “Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones. But Michael the archangel, when he, disputing with the devil, was arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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PUBLIC CONFESSION OF SINS Members Public

In the epistle of James, believers are commanded to confess their sins to one another in the context of receiving forgiveness of those transgressions and/or healing from any illnesses that may have resulted from those sins: “Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JOHN 3:16 VERSUS LIMITED ATONEMENT Members Public

According to one of the most famous passages of the Holy Bible God sent his only-begotten into the world to save it so that whoever chooses to believe in the Son will be spared from perishing and be granted everlasting life: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JOHN’S PROLOGUE VS. LIMITED ATONEMENT Members Public

In this post I will demonstrate from what is typically called by scholars the prologue of John, i.e., 1:1-18, the falsity of limited atonement, which is an unbiblical tradition held on to by some (not) all Calvinists. The reason for doing so is that both reformed and

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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TURRETIN ATONEMENT DEBATE Members Public

These are some of the notes for my debate with Turretinfan on the whether the Holy Bible teaches limited atonement. I will be citing Calvinist scholars, including John Calvin, all of whom acknowledge that the texts which I quote conclusively prove that Christ died for the sins of the entire

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JUDE & MOSES’ ASSUMPTION Members Public

The short Epistle of Jude references a non-canonical work in respect to the dispute which took place between Michael and the devil over the body of Moses: Many in the early church and scholars of today believe that Jude was citing from the work Assumption of Moses. In order

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JUDE’S EPISTLE VERSUS ARIANISM Members Public

In this post I will be addressing the claims made by the anti-Trinitarian polemicist and arian apologist Greg Stafford in respect to the epistle of Jude. Stafford seeks to employ Jude’s statement about Michael to refute the Trinitarian position that the Angel of YHWH who appears all throughout

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JUDE’S EPISTLE REFUTES ARIANISM Members Public

ADDENDUM Make sure to read this first: JUDE’S EPISTLE VERSUS ARIANISM. It seems that not all the verses where YHWH speaks in the third person are cases of YHWH referring to himself. It may be an indication of the fact that YHWH is referring to another divine Person as

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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