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Defense and explanation of Christian doctrine, practice, and worldview through rigorous biblical argumentation.
SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY & THE QURAN Paid Members Public
In this post I am going to provide evidence that the Quran has been heavily influenced by, and even fashioned after the Christological debates which took place among Syriac speaking Christians. I will prove that the very language of the Quran has been shape by the theological vocabulary and expressions
TEXTUAL CRITICISM & CHRIST’S DEITY Paid Members Public
Modern New Testament textual critics prefer what is typically known as reasoned eclecticism. This position holds to the belief that the earliest papyri, specifically those manuscripts (MSS) classified as the Alexandrian text type, and the major codices (e.g., Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus etc.) are to be prioritized since this is
THE BIBLE’S CODED MESSAGES Paid 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
EARLY CHURCH ON PURGATORY Paid 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
EARLY CHURCH ON AGE OF CREATION Paid 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By Ben Kissingly Historical references: “They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred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
CHRIST THE GOD-MAN Paid 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
TRINITY CHART Paid 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;
SHIA ISLAM ON THE GOSPEL Paid 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.