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In-depth examinations of Scripture, textual reliability, theological themes, and defense of biblical doctrine.
JOHN 17:3 AND THE ONLY TRUE GOD Paid Members Public
COMMENTARY Jesus states emphatically that eternal life is this: Knowing the Father in an intimate way as well as His Son. Salvation depends on knowing both Father and Son. Jesus is the “way, the truth, and the life.” No one comes to the Father but through the Son, for it
JESUS AS GOD IN ROMANS 9:5 Paid Members Public
COMMENTARY In verses 1-5 of this chapter of Romans, Paul focuses on the tension between God’s promises to Israel and Israel’s plight. The people to whom God has promised so much have, apparently, rejected God’s most profound revelation – His Son. In this verse, Paul presents the last
1 COR. 8 AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Paid Members Public
COMMENTARY Paul draws a contrast between false deities and the Father and Son. Whereas the pagan deities are false, there is to us “one God, the Father”, and “one Lord, Jesus Christ”. He maintains a distinction of Personality between the Father and Son by assigning a different title of Deity
BEFORE ABRAHAM: PROVING CHRIST’S ETERNAL EXISTENCE Paid Members Public
In this post I will refute the unitarian perversion of John’s Gospel in their crusade to deny the eternal existence of Jesus. I will show how the Evangelist affirms the uncreated nature of Christ in clear and unambiguous language that only those blinded by their presuppositions and/or human
THE FARCE THAT IS SHABIR ALLY: THE CASE OF ABROGATION Paid Members Public
In a debate with Samuel Green on the Quranic view of the Holy Bible, Ally claimed that Q. 2:106 refers to the Quran abrogating the previous Scriptures, despite candidly admitting that this is not how the classical Muslim scholars understood this verse: A Qur’anic View of the Bible
VENERATION OF THE SAINTS: A BIBLICAL OUTLINE PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off: VENERATION OF THE SAINTS: A BIBLICAL OUTLINE PT. 1. Here I will list examples where God permits, and in some cases even demands, that certain individuals be served, employing the very same key Hebrew (avad) and Greek (douleuo) terms used in relation
A Reply to Bart Ehrman’s Defense of Jesus, Interrupted on the MythVision Podcast Paid Members Public
JONATHAN MCLATCHIE May 24, 2021 Nearly a year ago, I published a series of three articles in which I reviewed sections of Bart Ehrman’s book Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them). If you have not read those articles
VENERATION OF THE SAINTS: A BIBLICAL OUTLINE PT. 1 Paid Members Public
In this post I will quote the verses where individuals receive reverence, obeisance, relative worship etc., with God’s express approval. Here I will focus on all the places where the Hebrew (shachah) and Greek words (proskyneo) are employed, which are the very terms used in relation to the worship