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EARLY CHURCH’S VIEW OF THE SABBATH DAY 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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TWO CREATION ACCOUNTS IN GENESIS 1 & 2? 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 3 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,

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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DAVID’S MULTI-PERSONAL LORD PT. 2 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

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Sam Shamoun
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BIBLE COMPARISONS LIST PT. 5 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,

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Sam Shamoun
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BIBLE COMPARISON LISTS PT. 4 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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TRUE FAITH IS FAITHFULNESS AND OBEDIENCE PT. 1 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

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Sam Shamoun
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DID THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS DROWN? 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

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Sam Shamoun
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