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Biblical studies on Mary’s life, role, and significance in salvation history.
Jehovah’s Witnesses & Jesus’ Sonship Paid Members Public
According to the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society’s literature, Jesus only became God’s spiritual Son at his baptism. It was at that moment that Jesus became aware of his heavenly preexistence as a created spirit being, namely, the archangel Michael: Some six months after John the Baptist begins
Athanasius Confirms Ignatius’ Christology Paid Members Public
St. Athanasius, the great Trinitarian defender and saint of the Church, in refuting the Arian heretics mentions another great saint who became a holy martyr of Christ, St. Ignatius. Athanasius confirms that Ignatius did indeed write at least one letter, that of the Ephesians, where this eyewitness of the holy
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
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
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
Christ: The Physical Seed of David Paid Members Public
In this article I will cite all the relevant NT verses which affirm that Jesus is a physical descendant of king David, making him an Israelite from the tribe of Judah. Since Jesus was born of the Holy Virgin by the Holy Spirit, this means that the Lord Jesus traces
Mary’s Parents: Descendants of David Paid Members Public
In this short post I will cite some references from apocryphal and/or pseudepigraphical writings stating that Mary and her parents were physical descendants of David, and from the tribe of Judah. All emphasis will be mine. 10. And there was a council of the priests, saying: Let us make
Mary’s Father: Eli or Joakim? Paid Members Public
According to the earliest tradition, Mary’s parents were named Joachim/Joakim and Anna/Hannah. Their names can be found in the second century writing titled Protoevanglium of James the Lesser, a very early source which contains traditions from the first century AD. This was a quite popular work among