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Defense and explanation of Christian doctrine, practice, and worldview through rigorous biblical argumentation.

THE BIBLE’S CODED MESSAGES Members Public

In this post I will share a way in which God provides clues that the Scriptures are inspired by the Holy Spirit by taking the case of John the Baptist and his parents and the implication of their names. Here’s what Luke writes in regards to the lineage and

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EARLY CHURCH ON PURGATORY Members Public

William Albrecht 2 nd Century AD St. Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD) “The believer through discipline divests himself of his passions and passes to the mansion better than the former one, passing through torments with repentance for post-baptismal sins. Although these punishments cease after purification, God’s righteousness allows for

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EARLY CHURCH ON AGE OF CREATION Members Public

By Ben Kissingly Historical references: “They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed.” St. Augustine, City of God, Book XII, chapter 10, “Of the

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CHRIST THE GOD-MAN Members Public

The following chart provides a helpful summation of some of the overwhelming biblical data, which confirms that Jesus is the God-Man, the eternal God that became human and who, by virtue of his physical resurrection unto immortality, shall forever exist as both God and Man.   GOD     MAN   He is God

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TRINITY CHART Members Public

In this chart I lay out some of the unique, exclusive titles/characteristics/functions, etc. belonging to God, and show how they are all applied to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.       FATHER   SON HOLY SPIRT   GOD     John 17:3; 20:17; 1 Cor. 8:6; 2 Cor. 1:3;

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SHIA ISLAM ON THE GOSPEL Members Public

In this post I will be citing specific narrations taken from the Shia hadith collections in respect to the existence and identity of the Gospel, which the Quran states was given to Jesus and which is said to have been in the possession of the Christians at Muhammad’s time.

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MURRAY J. HARRIS ON 2 PT. 1:1 Members Public

In 2 Peter, the blessed Apostle begins and ends his inspired epistle with unambiguous affirmations of the absolute, essential Deity of our Lord Jesus. For example, not only does Peter start off by describing Christ as both God and Savior, “I, Simon Peter, am writing this letter. I serve Jesus

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Sam Shamoun
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KJV AND SHARP’S FIRST RULE Members Public

Granville Sharp was a Christian abolitionist and devout scholar of the Greek [N]ew [T]estament who wrote a monograph in 1798 on how the NT employs the Greek definite article (“the”) in respect to passages related to the Deity of Christ. He discovered six rules, the first of which

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