theology
Doctrinal studies addressing key themes in Christian belief through Scripture and sound exegesis.
Adam: A Forgetful Victim or A Rebellious Transgressor? Paid Members Public
One will often find Muslim polemicists denying that Adam’s sin negatively affected the human race by causing mankind to inherit a corrupt sinful inclination/nature which makes it inevitable that humans will indeed disobey and transgress God’s laws. They further claim that Adam’s “mistake” wasn’t a
Monogenes Theos: A Gnostic Corruption? Paid Members Public
I am reposting New Testament textual scholar James E. Snpp Jr’s post where he shows that the reading moongenes theos (“only-begotten God”), being the read that many English versions adopt, may have been a heretical gnostic corruption that crept its way into the New Testament textual transmission. JOHN 1:
Edward F. Hills on 1 John 5:7 Paid Members Public
The late Edward F. Hills was a reputable conservative Evangelical Christian textual scholar who wrote a book defending the superiority of the King James Version. The following is an excerpt from that book where Hills makes a case for the authenticity of 1 John 5:7, commonly referred to as
Revisiting the Worship of the God-Man Paid Members Public
In this post I am going to revisit the issue of the honors given to Christ, documenting that Jesus receives the very worship which only God is supposed to receive. Pelach In the Aramaic section of the book of Daniel, pelach is the type of service that is to be
Umar and Islamic Prostitution Pt. 3 Paid Members Public
We arrive at the final part of the Shia rebuttal to the Sunni belief that Muhammad put an end to Islamic prostitution (/2020/08/18/umar-and-islamic-prostitution-pt-2/). Many ‘ulama of Ahl as-Sunnah deemed Mut’ah to be Halaal We shall cite the following Sunni sources 1. Tafseer Gharaib al-Quran, part 5,
“Nikah” The Islamic “N” Word; What Does It Exactly Mean? Paid Members Public
By Abdullah Al Araby Those who master the Arabic language, and who have read the Quran in the original Arabic, are usually stunned when they read it translated into a foreign language. They can’t help but notice that there are numerous discrepancies between the original Arabic and the translation.
Muhammad’s Vulgar Language Exposed Paid Members Public
Muslims accuse the Holy Bible of containing vulgar language and pornographic content which disqualifies it from being the pure Word of God. These charges have been answered over and over again: 9. PORNOGRAPHY IN THE BIBLE? Does the Bible use language not fitting for God? Songof Songs: What does God
NOTES FOR “Dr.” Shuaib Sayyed DEBATE PT. 2 Paid Members Public
This is a continuation of my debate notes: NOTES FOR “Dr.” Shuaib Sayyed DEBATE PT. 1. MUHAMMAD CONFIRMS THE BIBLE 1. Jesus and the Old Testament And He will teach him the Book and the wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel… “attesting to WHAT IS BETWEEN MY HANDS (Wamusaddiqan