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What is the Messiah? Responding to Iglesia ni Cristo’s Misuse of Scripture Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
In the debate between Iglesia ni Cristo minister Jose Ventilacion and Reformed Baptist apologist Dr. James R. White (Who is God? Trinity Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N61p_-XwG4&t=1506s), White appealed to the Lord Jesus’ “I Am” (Gr. ego eimi) statements in John’s Gospel
Will the Real Bart Ehrman Please Stand Up? Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
In this series of post I am going to be documenting some of Bart D. Ehrman’s contradictions, specifically those he has made in respect to Christ’s divinity. After reading and listening to him for so many years, it has become apparent to me that Ehrman is more than
One Mediator and One God Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Addressing the Misuse of 1 Timothy 2:5 by Protestant Apologists OR Deriving Right Doctrines from Wrong Texts I proceed with my reply, One Mediator and One God Pt. 1, by focusing on how the inspired Greek NT employs the word heis (“one”), to see whether there is any merit
One Mediator and One God Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
Addressing the Misuse of 1 Timothy 2:5 by Protestant Apologists OR Deriving Right Doctrines from Wrong Texts Whenever Roman Catholics speak of Mary being a co-mediatrix or mention their belief that God allows Christians on earth to ask the saints in heaven to pray and intercede for them, Protestant
For Whom Did the OT High Priest Make Atonement? Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
We continue with our discussion: For Whom Did the OT High Priest Make Atonement? Pt. 1. Israel Alone or the Whole World? The second point to note is that the OT high priest didn’t make atonement only for Israel, but actually offered sacrifices for the salvation of the whole
ERRATA: Iglesia Ni Cristo and the New Living Translation Paid Members Public
In a previous post /2017/04/26/jesus-christ-the-god-who-is-the-all-in-all-a-response-to-iglesia-ni-cristo/, I responded to Iglesia Ni Cristo apologist Joe Ventilacion’s use of the New Living Translation’s (NLT) rendering of 1 Corinthians 15:28 in his debate with Dr. James R. White to disprove Jesus’ essential coequality with the Father. After having
Jesus – The God Who Knows All Things: Refuting Another Iglesia Ni Cristo Objection Paid Members Public
In the opening statements of his debate with Dr. James R. White, Iglesia Ni Cristo apologist Joe Ventilacion pitted 1 John 3:20, where John says that God knows all things against Matthew 24:36, a passage where Jesus says that he as the Son doesn’t know the day
Two Yale Scholars Prove that Islam is a False Religion Paid Members Public
It never ceases to amaze me how Muslim polemicists will constantly cite liberal biblical scholarship to refute the Christian faith, while rejecting that the implications that same scholarship has on the truth claims of their own religion. Take, for instance, Paul Bilal Williams’ post titled “Yale: ‘The Synoptic Gospels do