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EARLY CHURCH’S VIEW OF THE SABBATH DAY Paid Members Public
The current post has been adapted and modified from the following article: What the Early Church Believed: Sabbath or Sunday?. All emphasis shall be mine. The following quotations show that the first Christians understood that Sunday became the Lord’s Day as a result of Christ’s resurrection, and therefore
TWO CREATION ACCOUNTS IN GENESIS 1 & 2? Paid Members Public
The following is taken from the late biblical scholar and linguist Dr. Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan Publications, Grand Rapids, MI 1982, pp. 57-59. Do the names for God in Genesis 1 and 2 show a difference in the authorship of the two chapters? It
PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 3 Paid Members Public
We now come to the final section of this lengthy paper: PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 2. St. Prudentius (d. after 405) Our next witness is from Spain. In a section of his poem Cathemerinon, St. Prudentius tells the story of Gen. 3. In regard to verses 14-15,
DAVID’S MULTI-PERSONAL LORD PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I proceed from where I left off: DAVID’S MULTI-PERSONAL LORD PT. 1. THE PRE-CREATIONAL BEGETTING OF DAVID’S LORD Another interesting point about Psalm 110 is the fact that mention is made of the begetting of David’s Lord, a begetting which occurred before creation: “The Lord said to
BIBLE COMPARISONS LIST PT. 5 Paid Members Public
In this post I will be comparing the rendering of the New American Standard Bible 1995 edition (NASB1995) with the New King James Version (NKJV) in regards to some of the common texts employed to affirm the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. I do so since, in my estimation,
BIBLE COMPARISON LISTS PT. 4 Paid Members Public
In this post I will be quoting from the International Standard Version (ISV) of the Holy Bible in regards to some of the commonly referred texts which Christians point to in defense of the Deity and Humanity of Christ. These are the commonly cited verses proving that Christ is God
TRUE FAITH IS FAITHFULNESS AND OBEDIENCE PT. 1 Paid Members Public
In this post I will quote biblical passages to prove that the sacred Scriptures define true faith as faithfulness to Christ. I will demonstrate that the God-breathed revelation defines belief in Christ as being faithful to the Lord Jesus by obeying his word. In this first part I will simply
DID THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS DROWN? Paid Members Public
Since some are going around claiming that the Holy Bible NOWHERE says that the Pharaoh of the Exodus drowned, I decided to write this short post and let the readers decide if this is true or not. Compare what the following biblical passages state in respect to God overthrowing the