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The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bibles Members Public

And The Worship Due to Jesus In this post, I will prove that Jesus is to be worshiped as Jehovah God from the very Bible versions employed by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which can be accessed on their own website for free: Online Bible. I will be primarily using the

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Does the Quran Reject Christ’s Eternal Generation? Pt. 1 Members Public

In this post, I am going to refute the common Muhammadan assertion that the Quran addresses and rejects the historic Christian doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son. The passage that is often pointed to is the following: He begets not, and neither is He begotten; S. 112:3

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JESUS CHRIST – THE MUHAMMAD OF THE QURAN? Members Public

Many people may not be aware of the fact that the term Muhammad appears only four times in the Quran, with the name Ahmad appearing only once. Muslims have assumed that these all refer to their prophet Muhammad. However, not all are convinced that this is the case since there

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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AHMAD OR THE HOLY SPIRIT? Members Public

We now come to the name Ahmad, which appears only one time in the Quran (/2020/06/14/jesus-christ-the-muhammad-of-the-quran/). Once again, is this another of Muhammad’s names as later tradition asserts, or is it a further case of a descriptive noun that may not necessarily be referring to the

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Did Christians just make up the ‘THE” in “The Angel of YHWH”? Members Public

The following post is taken from Glenn Miller’s article, Is there no “THE” in “THE Angel of the Lord”?. This question came in: Hi Glen, My name is XXX i live in YYY. I’ve been a Born Again Christian for over 30 years, thanks to Gods marvelous grace

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Athanasius’ Biblical Canon Members Public

The following is taken from Athanasius’ 39th festal letter written at 367 AD (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2806039.htm). (For 367.) Of the particular books and their number, which are accepted by the Church. From the thirty-ninth Letter of Holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, on the Paschal festival; wherein

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Signing of the Cross in Early Christianity Members Public

In this post I am going to cite an early source attesting to the Christian practice of doing the sign of the cross with the hand. I will be quoting from a document called the Odes of Solomon. Scholars date this work as early to the beginning of the second

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Signing of the Cross in Early Christianity Pt. 2 Members Public

In a previous post (/2020/05/26/the-signing-of-the-cross-in-early-christianity/) I showed that the signing of the cross was a very early Christian practice. I provide additional evidence from the early church fathers showing that the practice of making the sign of the cross with the hands was both early and quite

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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