church-history
Historical studies on the development of Christian doctrine, early church writings, councils, and controversies.
ST. BASIL OF CAESAREA’S EXEGESIS OF MARK 13:32 AND MATTHEW 24:36 Paid Members Public
In this post I am going to quote the exegesis of one of the greatest Christian theologians and apologists of the early church in respect to Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32, where our risen Lord speaks of not knowing the day and hour of his destroying Jerusalem and
Ignatius of Antioch’s Proclamation of the Essential Deity of Christ Paid Members Public
Ignatius was a disciple of the Apostles and the Bishop of the churches in Antioch, Syria, where believers were first called Christians (cf. Acts 11:26). On his way to being martyred at Rome, this beloved Bishop of the Lord Jesus wrote seven letters to various churches (c. 107-112 AD)
Did the Ante-Nicene Fathers Worship the Holy Spirit as God Almighty? Paid Members Public
Being A Response to the Misinformation of Muhammadan Polemicists It is becoming quite popular among Islamic dawagandists to claim that the Christians of the first four centuries did not worship the Holy Spirit as God, since this was something only agreed upon in the year 381 AD at the council
Tertullian and the Doctrine of the Trinity Paid Members Public
Refuting the Misrepresentation of this Church Writer’s Views As I noted in a previous post (/2018/11/02/were-the-early-church-fathers-trinitarians/), Muslims have started a recent trend where they now seek to prove that the ante-Nicene fathers, i.e., the Christian apologists and theologians that wrote before the council of Nicaea,
Were the Early Church Fathers Trinitarians? Paid Members Public
It’s become a trend among certain Muslim polemicists to goldmine citations from notable Christian historians in order to mislead people into thinking that the early church fathers, particular the Ante-Nicene writers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian etc., were not Trinitarians and did not hold to the ontological equality
The Early Church’s Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible’s Use of Plural Pronouns for God Paid Members Public
There are four places in the inspired OT writings where the one true God employs plural pronouns to describe himself: “Then God said, ‘Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the
The World English Bible Paid Members Public
The World English Bible (WEB) is a translation which primarily uses the Majority Text (MT), otherwise known as the Byzantine text, in its translation of the New Testament (NT). As the name itself suggests, the MT is based on the majority of the extant Greek manuscripts of the individual books
An Articulation of Sola Scriptura Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Some Objections Considered I continue from where I previously left off: An Articulation of Sola Scriptura Pt. 1. We next address four main objections often leveled against the sole, sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures. It is claimed that if 2 Timothy 3:14-17 proves the doctrine of Sola Scriptura, then