worship
Studies on worship, devotion, liturgy, and honoring God according to Scripture.
Prayers of Jews to Angels and Other Intermediaries Paid Members Public
During the First Centuries of the Common Era MEIR BAR-ILAN I. Introduction It has been claimed that angels with divine power have no place in Judaism, a monotheistic religion, as the strength of such a religion lies in the exclusivity of the divinity.1 Angels can thus be no more
WORSHIPING JESUS AS GOD PT. 1 Paid Members Public
WHY BIBLE TRANSLATIONS MATTER In this post I will be employing the Bible versions recommended by a unitarian heretic in an interview he did with anti-Christian Muhammadan polemicist Paul Williams for the express purpose of showing that Jesus is worshiped as Yahweh God Almighty in the flesh: The Trinitarian “bias”
JESUS CHRIST: THE ETERNALLY PRAISED GOD PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off: JESUS CHRIST: THE ETERNALLY PRAISED GOD. SUPPORTING TEXTS The blessed Apostle furnishes additional evidence for taking Romans 9:5 as another explicit testimony to the Deity of Christ. For instance, in the very next chapter Paul describes Jesus as the YHVH whom
EPIPHANIUS ON THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY Paid Members Public
In this post I shall share Epiphanius’ somewhat lengthy comment where he alludes to the blessed Mother’s assumption by likening her to Elijah, in the context of condemning a heretical group called the Collyridians who had deified Mary and offered sacrificed to her as a goddess. The readers will
MUSLIM JALAL EXPOSES MUHAMMAD AS A BLASPHEMOUS IDOLATOR Paid Members Public
In this post I will be exposing Muhammadan Jalal Abualrub for his dishonest and inconsistency by applying a standard against the Shia, which he fails to use to himself and his Salafi sect. I shall demonstrate that Jalal’s own criticism of the Shia comes back against to prove that
ISLAMIC GRAVE WORSHIP REVISTED Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from Qadi ‘Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi’s Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa (Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One), translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley (Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K.; third reprint 1991, paperback), PART TWO. Concerning the rights
SECOND-THIRD CENTURY CHRISTIAN WORSHIP OF THE TRINITY Paid Members Public
In this post I will quote a few of the many early Christian witnesses that testify to the Church’s worship of both the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Some of these very citations also mention the explicit condemnation and prohibition against the worship of any and all created
EARLY CHURCH’S VIEW OF THE SABBATH DAY Paid Members Public
The current post has been adapted and modified from the following article: What the Early Church Believed: Sabbath or Sunday?. All emphasis shall be mine. The following quotations show that the first Christians understood that Sunday became the Lord’s Day as a result of Christ’s resurrection, and therefore