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Biblical studies on Mary’s life, role, and significance in salvation history.

Geneva Study Bible & Mary’s Virginity 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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John Calvin, the Reformers & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Oldest Extant Invocation to Mary 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Jehovah’s Witnesses & Jesus’ Sonship 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Athanasius Confirms Ignatius’ Christology 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Catholic Commentary on John 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

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Mary in the Talmud 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

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Sam Shamoun
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The Quran’s Disrespect of Mary 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

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Sam Shamoun
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