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Clarification and defense of the gospel message—Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and saving work.
Water Baptism Now Saves You! Paid Members Public
On the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit had filled and empowered the disciples of Christ to proclaim the Gospel, Peter preached to the crowds of Jews that they had to turn to Christ and undergo water baptism in order to be saved: “Now when they heard this, they
Belief: The Work that God Requires! Paid Members Public
Contrary to the teaching of Protestantism, the God-breathed Scriptures teach that belief in Christ is a work, in fact the one necessary work required by God for salvation. Note carefully the words of our Lord: “‘But earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work (ergazesthe) to get that kind
Catholic Commentary on John Paid Members Public
In this post I will be quoting from Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture: The Gospel of John, by Francis Martin and William M. Wright IV, published by BakerAcademic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and published in 2015. All emphasis will be mine. Authorship The Gospel does
Textual Veracity of Luke 22:19-20 Paid Members Public
The majority of English versions of the Holy Bible contain the so-called longer reading of Luke 22:19-20: “And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is My body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance
Mary in the Talmud Paid Members Public
In this post I will be excerpting references from Peter Schäfer’s book Jesus in the Talmud, published by Princeton University Press in 2007, in respect to what the Babylonian Talmud claims about the holy and blessed Mother of Christ. Here is what Schäfer writes regarding the names the rabbis
Bart Ehrman, Jesus & Daniel’s Son of Man Paid Members Public
Bart Ehrman is among a few fringe scholars who think that Jesus’ Apocalyptic Son of Man sayings are not about himself, but are referring to someone else. Despite believing this to be the case, Ehrman does admit that this is not the view of the Gospel writers, since he acknowledges
The Quran’s Disrespect of Mary Paid Members Public
The Muslim text describes the manner in which Allah impregnated Mary in a crude, vulgar, disgusting manner: And Mary Amran's daughter who remained chaste (protected) HER GENITAL PARTS (farjaha) BETWEEN HER LEGS, SO WE BLEW IN IT from Our Soul/Spirit, and she confirmed/was truthful with her
Everlasting Conscious Torment: A Defense Paid Members Public
I will be examining particular texts that seem to point to the punishment of unbelievers being an ongoing, never-ending experience of torment. This is known as the doctrine of eternal/everlasting conscious torment (ECT). Synoptic Gospels The Lord Jesus often described the punishment of the wicked as a “place” of