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Does Revelation 3:14 Teach That Jesus is God’s First Creation? Pt. 2 Members Public

I proceed from where I left off /2018/12/13/does-revelation-314-teach-jesus-is-gods-first-creation-pt-1/. In this section I am going to provide a host of translations and select commentaries which bring out the meaning of Revelation 3:14, since this will show why the Society’s rendering and explanation of this text are

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Does Revelation 3:14 Teach That Jesus is God’s First Creation? Pt. 1 Members Public

Unless noted otherwise, all biblical references will be taken from the 2013 edition of the New World Translation (NWT) http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/. Various anti-Trinitarian groups, and in particular Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs), employ Revelation 3:14 to prove that Jesus is the first thing

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Refuting the Muslim Assault On Matthew 2:23 Members Public

The following is my response to a vile Muhammadan troll that sought to refute Christian apologist and blogger Ken Temple’s defense (https://bloggingtheology2.com/2018/12/04/paul-and-the-depths-of-jewish-hermeneutics/#comment-237) of the following statement from Matthew: “And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Time of Messiah’s Advent Pt. 1 Members Public

The prophet Daniel was given a revelation concerning a series of events that would take place within a specific period of time. This revelation included the exact time when the Messiah would appear. The prophet was further told that the Messiah would actually be cut off, e.g. violently put

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Sam Shamoun
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Who is the One Supreme Lord of all Creation? Members Public

The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Dilemma In this post I am going to again prove from the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ (JWs) own Bible perversion, the New World Translation (NWT), that Jesus is Christ is Jehovah God Almighty in the flesh. In our previous discussion (/2018/11/13/jesus-is-jehovah-god-according-to-the-jehovahs-witnesses-bible-pt-7/), we saw that

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Sam Shamoun
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A Unitarian Heretic Implicitly Proves that Mark 13:32 Doesn’t Refute the Trinity! Members Public

Christian apologist and philosopher Denis Giron wrote a post concerning Mark 13:32, “But concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Showing that our Lord’s words that no one knows the day or hour except

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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OT Proof That Echad Does Not Point to God Being Uni-Personal Members Public

The following verse functions as the creed, or confession of faith, which the Israelites were to live by: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one (echad) Lord:” Deuteronomy 6:4 Oftentimes, anti-Trinitarians will cite this text as proof that God is a singular Person, not just a singular

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Original Forgiveness – Did Original Sin Really End with Adam? Pt. 1 Members Public

Refuting Another Muslim Lie It is typical for Muslim polemicists to argue that Islam doesn’t believe in “Original Sin,” but in “Original Forgiveness.” By that they mean that Allah supposedly forgave Adam and Eve for their sins, as opposed to the biblical teaching which states that God punished them

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Sam Shamoun
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