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Doctrinal studies addressing key themes in Christian belief through Scripture and sound exegesis.

Jesus and the Mysteries of Kabbalah Members Public

by Jews for Jesus February 09 2010 God as a trinity? No way!” “We Jews don’t believe in the idea of a divine incarnation!” “And we don’t believe in vicarious atonement!” “A New Testament?! Are you meshugge?!“ For many Jewish people, these statements are givens. Or are they?

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JEHOVAH GOD: OUR PLURAL CREATOR AND SUSTAINER Members Public

The Holy Scriptures bear witness that the God who created mankind in his image and likeness is in some sense a plural Creator-Maker: “Then God said, ‘Let US make man in OUR image, according to OUR likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Don’t Christians Believe in Three Gods? Members Public

by Jews for Jesus April 20 2018 Three Gods? The Trinity? What do Christians believe? It’s a very common misrepresentation that while Jews believe in one God, Christians believe in three. The fact is that Christianity is as firmly monotheistic as Judaism. What Christians believe is that this one

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Revelation 3:14: Jesus the Arche of Creation Members Public

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:” By James Stewart Delling in Kittel’s Theological Dictionary Of The New Testament on page 479 made an important statement that needs to be kept

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JESUS: THE GOD OF ISRAEL HAS COME Members Public

The Hebrew Bible testifies that Jehovah alone is the incomparable God in heaven and on earth: “You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other… Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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PROVERBS 8:22-36: THE ETERNALLY BEGOTTEN SON Members Public

The following is taken from The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecies: Studies and Expositions of the Messiah in the Old Testament, eds. Michael Rydelnik & Edwin Blum, published by Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL 2019, pp. 739-746. All emphasis will be mine.  Proverbs 8 The Messiah: Personification of Divine Wisdom SETH

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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20 Errors Common to Antitrinitarian Heresies Members Public

Robert M. Bowman Jr. 1.     They accuse the doctrine of the Trinity of teaching three Gods. 2.     They assume that one being must be one and only person, even in God. 3.     They understand the Trinity to mean that the three persons are three “parts” of God. 4.     They object

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Explaining the Trinity to the Jehovah’s Witnesses Members Public

Jay Hess1 The Jehovah’s Witnesses2 (hereafter abbreviated as J-Ws) hold to an Arian-like theology insisting that the Father alone is the One True God with the Son being Michael the archangel who is above all other angels. Angels, including Michael, are said to be gods, inferior to the One

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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