genesis
Exegesis of Genesis’ foundational doctrines: creation, covenant, humanity, and early biblical history.
JEHOVAH GOD: OUR PLURAL CREATOR AND SUSTAINER Paid Members Public
The Holy Scriptures bear witness that the God who created mankind in his image and likeness is in some sense a plural Creator-Maker: “Then God said, ‘Let US make man in OUR image, according to OUR likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
THE TRINITY IN TARGUM NEOFITI Paid Members Public
In this post I will be quoting the interpretation of Genesis found in the Targum Neofiti, which is a Jewish paraphrase of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic. This ancient version furnishes evidence that there were specific non-Christian Jews that clearly saw from their reading of Genesis a plurality of divine
DID ABRAHAM KNOW GOD’S COVENANT NAME? Paid Members Public
A RESPONSE TO SHABIR ALLY This post is intended to complement what I wrote elsewhere in response to Shabir Ally: Did Jesus Claim to be God? Pt. 2. According to the Holy Bible, the patriarchs knew the Lord as God Almighty but hadn’t known him by his name YHWH:
SCATHING REVIEW OF BILL CRAIG’S ADAM QUEST Paid Members Public
The following is a review left on amazon.com that highlights William Lane Craig’s heretical view concerning the historical Adam and calls him out for shamelessly distorting the Holy Bible to make it agree with the theory of evolution. Paul Artale A Biblical, Logical, and Scientific Trainwreck Reviewed in
The Origins of the Quran’s Fairytales Exposed: Nimrod and the Fire Paid Members Public
In this post I intend to supplement the material found in the following posts: Abraham and the Flame of the Chaldeans: How the Quran Turns a Fable into Reality The Incomplete Quran Strikes Again: A Showdown with Nimrod? The Quran records the disbelievers accusing Muhammad of parroting the fables and
Yasir Qadhi: Ismā`īl vs. Isḥāq As the Sacrifice Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from the facebook of Yasir Qadhi where he plugs a lecture he does on what the Muslim sources teach in respect to the child that Abraham was told to sacrifice. Here’s the link to the lecture itself: Library Chats E7: Ismā`īl vs. Isḥāq
Adam: A Forgetful Victim or A Rebellious Transgressor? Paid Members Public
One will often find Muslim polemicists denying that Adam’s sin negatively affected the human race by causing mankind to inherit a corrupt sinful inclination/nature which makes it inevitable that humans will indeed disobey and transgress God’s laws. They further claim that Adam’s “mistake” wasn’t a
Forbidden to Eat from the Tree of Life? Paid Members Public
Another Quranic Blunder Exposed The Quran states that one of the proofs of its divine origin and of Muhammad’s prophethood is the fact that the Islamic confirms the textual veracity and divine inspiration of the scriptures that the Jews and Christians possessed at Muhammad’s time: Children of Israel,