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Biblical studies on Mary’s life, role, and significance in salvation history.
Geneva Study Bible & Mary’s Virginity Paid Members Public
In this short post I will cite the notes of the Geneva Study Bible on the key texts that Protestant apologists often employ to refute the perpetual virginity of the blessed Mother of our Lord. The reason these notes are important is because they are based on the theological insights
John Calvin, the Reformers & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity Paid Members Public
A great number of Protestants are unaware of the fact that their spiritual forebears, the magisterial reformers such as John Calvin affirmed the Perpetuality Virginity of Mary (PVM). Calvin especially scoffed at those who would use texts such as Matthew 1:25, Luke 8:19-21, etc., to argue for
Oldest Extant Invocation to Mary Paid Members Public
The information posted here is uploaded from the following article: The original papyrus fragment. In 1917, a stunning treasure came to the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England. It was a piece of papyrus, Egyptian in origin. On this fragment, in Greek, is inscribed a hymn to Mary, called in
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