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MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off: MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 1. Second Prophecy: The Messianic Star from Egypt. In the book of numbers the Holy Spirit inspired a false prophet named Balaam to see and proclaim the coming of a Ruler from Jacob, whom Balaam described as a
JOHN 17:3 AND THE ONLY TRUE GOD Paid Members Public
COMMENTARY Jesus states emphatically that eternal life is this: Knowing the Father in an intimate way as well as His Son. Salvation depends on knowing both Father and Son. Jesus is the “way, the truth, and the life.” No one comes to the Father but through the Son, for it
JESUS AS GOD IN ROMANS 9:5 Paid Members Public
COMMENTARY In verses 1-5 of this chapter of Romans, Paul focuses on the tension between God’s promises to Israel and Israel’s plight. The people to whom God has promised so much have, apparently, rejected God’s most profound revelation – His Son. In this verse, Paul presents the
1 COR. 8 AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Paid Members Public
COMMENTARY Paul draws a contrast between false deities and the Father and Son. Whereas the pagan deities are false, there is to us “one God, the Father”, and “one Lord, Jesus Christ”. He maintains a distinction of Personality between the Father and Son by assigning a different title of Deity
THE EARLY CHURCH ON THE ETERNAL BEGETTING OF THE SON Paid Members Public
In this very short post, I will cite a few early church fathers and writers who all affirm the uncreated, eternal nature of the Son. Chapter 6. Preserve harmony Since therefore I have, in the persons before mentioned, beheld the whole multitude of you in faith and love, I exhort
THE MESSIAH OF THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD Paid Members Public
In this post, I will cite the Babylonian Talmud to show how post-Christian rabbis applied some of the very same Old Testament passages to the Messiah, which the inspired New Testament writings and Christians in general have typically interpreted in respect to Jesus. The quotations will further demonstrate how
BEFORE ABRAHAM: PROVING CHRIST’S ETERNAL EXISTENCE Paid Members Public
In this post I will refute the unitarian perversion of John’s Gospel in their crusade to deny the eternal existence of Jesus. I will show how the Evangelist affirms the uncreated nature of Christ in clear and unambiguous language that only those blinded by their presuppositions and/or human
THE FARCE THAT IS SHABIR ALLY: THE CASE OF ABROGATION Paid Members Public
In a debate with Samuel Green on the Quranic view of the Holy Bible, Ally claimed that Q. 2:106 refers to the Quran abrogating the previous Scriptures, despite candidly admitting that this is not how the classical Muslim scholars understood this verse: A Qur’anic View of the Bible