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St. Augustine on John 17:3 & Predestination

In this post I will be citing from St. Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John where he discusses our Lord’s statement to the Father being the only true God, and where he also explains our Lord’s words in v. 5 as referring to God having predestined

TRINITY IN HEBREWS

In this post I will be quoting the places in Hebrews where OT texts about YHWH are applied to both the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. This will affirm that to the inspired writer YHWH God isn’t singular Person, but is in reality a Tri-Personal Being who

CHRIST’S SUPREMACY OVER ALL CREATION

The following excerpt is taken from renowned Evangelical New Testament Greek scholar Murray J. Harris’s commentary, Exegetical Guide To The Greek New Testament: Colossians And Philemon, published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI 2010, pp. 64-70. All emphasis is mine. VERSE 15 ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ

ANGELS WORSHIP JESUS AS YHWH

The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense, authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Chapter 5: Worship of Jesus, Part 1: Crown Him with Many Crowns: Jesus’

An Arian’s Dilemma: Angels Worship YHWH Jesus

According to arian cultist Greg Stafford, Paul quotes Deuteronomy 32:43 in Hebrews 1:6 to highlight the fact of God commanding all his angels to worship Jesus, his Firstborn Son: “… The fact is the author of Hebrews (whom Jehovah’s Witnesses believe to be the apostle Paul), under inspiration,

Christ: The True God & Only-Begotten Son

The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense, authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Chapter 23: Jesus as “God” in John’s Writings, Part 3: The Name

William Lane Craig is Dangerous!

The following post is taken from: William Lane Craig’s Dangerous views on Scripture: William Lane Craig’s Dangerous views on Scripture. Welcome to Defender’s Voice. This is Dr.Paul. Thank you for joining us today. Please send me your questions to [email protected]. To support this ministry,

Syriac Sinaiticus’ Gospel Variants

The Syriac Sinaiticus codex is a 4th century AD manuscript, which contains the oldest translations of the Gospels into the Syriac language: The Syriac Sinaiticus, a late 4th century codex also known also as the Sinaitic Palimpsest or the Codex Syriacus, contains a translation of the four canonical gospels of

Qanah: Create or Acquire?

One of the OT texts, which was widely appealed to in the early Christian centuries as the very words of Christ in his prehuman existence, is Proverbs 8:22-36. There, God’s Wisdom describes herself as already being there with YHWH from before the creation of the world. The reason

An EO’s New Testament Translation

In this post I will be quoting select references from Eastern Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart’s The New Testament: A Translation, published by Yale University Press in 2017. As the readers will see, Hart rendering of specific Christological texts is far from Orthodox, and even smacks of outright Arianism.