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Biblical studies on the nature, attributes, and identity of God, with emphasis on monotheism and divine revelation.

REVISITED: JESUS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE Members Public

In this short post I will sum up the evidence from the Johannine corpus that the Father is said to be the only true God, not to the exclusion of the Son (or the Holy Spirit), but in perfect inseparable union with his beloved Son (and his eternal Spirit.)   The

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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“ALLAH ONE OF”: REVISITING THE ISSUE OF AHAD Members Public

In the following article, Ahad: Monotheism vs. Eloquence of the Quran, I demonstrated that the phrase found in Q. 112:1 qul huwa Allah ahadun literally translates as “Say he is Allah, one of.” In this post I will share some of the verses proving that the word ahad does

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“The Form of a god”? The Translation of Morphē Theou in Philippians 2:6 Members Public

Robert M. Bowman Jr. August 15, 2014 The penchant of Jehovah’s Witnesses for rendering the common Greek word for “God,” theos, as “a god” when it applies to Jesus Christ is well known. Most famously, the New World Translation (NWT) translates the last clause of John 1:1 “and

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The New World Translation Proves Jesus Reigns as Jehovah in Heaven! Members Public

Unless indicated otherwise I will be employing the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (2013 Revision). The readers can access the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ (JWs) various Bible translations from their website: Online Bible. In this post I am going to apply the Society’s own reasoning, which they employ

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JOHN 17:3 AND THE ONLY TRUE GOD 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

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Sam Shamoun
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JESUS AS GOD IN ROMANS 9:5 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 last

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Sam Shamoun
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JESUS AS GOD IN JOHN 20:28 Members Public

COMMENTARY The confession of Thomas, coming as it does at the climax of John’s Gospel, is perhaps the clearest affirmation of Christ’s deity in the Bible. It is clear, despite various theories to the contrary (see “Other views Considered,” below), that Thomas was speaking directly to Jesus. The

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1 COR. 8 AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES 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

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