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Biblical defense and explanation of salvation, grace, faith, and redemption.

Where’s the Blood? Responding to Another Muslim Ruse Pt. 1 Members Public

It’s become fashionable for Muslim polemicists to cite specific biblical texts, which seem to deny the necessity of atoning sacrifices for the forgiveness of sins. The following is one of the passages that Islamic apologists appeal to: “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the

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Atonement in Luke-Acts Pt. 2 Members Public

I continue my rebuttal to a Muslim greenhorn who attempted to show that Luke-Acts do not have a theology of substitutionary atonement (/2019/09/13/atonement-in-luke-acts-pt-1/). The Scholarly views concerning the death of Christ in Luke-Acts Here is the list of scholarly opinions concerning Luke’s depiction of Jesus’ death:

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Atonement in Luke-Acts Pt. 1 Members Public

Introduction This series was initially going to be a reply to another Muslim neophyte named Bassam Zawadi in order to expose his blatant inconsistencies and selective use of sources. However, I have decided to turn this into discussion concerning Luke’s view of Christ’s death. I do plan to

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The Biblical Basis for the Nicene Creed Pt. 1 Members Public

I begin a series where I provide the biblical basis for the Nicene Creed in order to highlight the Creed’s fidelity to what the God-breathed Scriptures teach concerning the nature of God, salvation, end times etc. I will let the passages speak for themselves for the most part, and

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Islam’s Doctrine of Imputation of Righteousness and Vicarious Death Members Public

In this post, I am going to demonstrate that the primary source documents of Islam affirm vicarious sacrifices, substitutionary atonement and the imputation of a person’s righteous deeds to the account of another. For example, I’ve already mentioned the so-called authentic narrations of Muhammad where he claims that

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THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION Members Public

In this post I am going to present the Bible’s teaching on why everlasting life only comes through accepting what Christ did for us, namely, humbling himself to become man in order to live a perfect human life and die an accursed death. 1. God demands absolute perfect obedience

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THE MATERIAL FOR MY TALK ON JESUS’ DEATH AND RESURRECTION Members Public

The following are some of the citations I employed in my talk on the Lord’s death and resurrection with Christian apologist and evangelist Hatun Tash of DCCI ministries. THE MATERIAL IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-8 DATED WITHIN 2-3 YEARS OF JESUS’ RESURRECTION The majority of scholars, both conservative and

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Can the death of a human being make atonement for sins? Members Public

This short post is intended to supplement the following article where I documented from the Hebrew Bible that God does in fact accept human “sacrifice” as a means of atonement, specifically the death of the wicked: “Judaism and Human Sacrifice as a Means of Atonement” (https://www.answeringislam.net/Responses/

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