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JESUS’ GOD PT. 1 Members Public

REFUTING ANOTHER UNITARIAN CANARD Unitarians and other non-Trinitarians will often appeal to statements where Christ and his followers refer to the Father as Jesus’ God. Case in point: “Jesus said to her, ‘Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers

Sam Shamoun
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JESUS IS NOT A CREATED ANGEL Members Public

There are specific cults that believe that Christ is an angelic creature who became man. These religious movements claim that Jesus, in his prehuman existence and in his post-resurrection exaltation, is actually Michael the archangel!(1) In this post I will show the readers an effective manner of how to

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THE TRUE GOD BECOMES A HUMAN MEDIATOR! Members Public

The Apostle Paul wrote to exhort believers to pray for the salvation of all men since God desires to save the whole human race, which is why he sent Christ to become a human mediator who offered up his life as a ransom for mankind:    “First of all, then, I

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JESUS THE NAZARENE AND MATTHEW’S GENEALOGY Members Public

In this post I will be citing Dr. David H. Stern’s Jewish New Testament Commentary, published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. 1992, pp. 42-43, where Stern explains how Joseph made Jesus his legal heir by accepting him as his son, thereby conferring upon the Lord his legal descent

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JESUS AS THEOS IN HEBREWS Members Public

One of the places in which Jesus is called God is in the inspired epistles to Hebrews: “but of the Son he says, ‘Your throne, O God (ho theos), is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.

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A MESSIANIC SCHOLAR ON JESUS’ VIRGIN BIRTH Members Public

The following excerpts are taken from Messianic Jewish scholar and translator Dr. David H. Stern’s Jewish New Testament Commentary, published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. 1992. All emphasis mine. 20 Adonai, literally, “my lords”; but grammarians consider it the “plural of majesty”; so a slightly less literal translation

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JESUS: THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD Members Public

The Scriptures distinguish the true God from the other so-called gods by identifying him as the God of the Patriarchs, i.e., the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The sacred writings further do so by referring to him as the God of Israel: “Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and

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WATCHTOWER, EARLY CHURCH & THE TRINITY Members Public

The following is a post I share from an article that is no longer available online. It refutes the lies, distortions and misinformation of the Jehovah’s Witness booklet/magazine Should You Believe in the Trinity?. Should You Believe in the Trinity? A few years ago the Watchtower Society published

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