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The excerpt cited here is taken from EOB: The Eastern Greek Orthodox New Testament: Based on the Patriarchal Text of 1904 with extensive variants , published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, in January 7, 2013, pp. 648-651. But first I quote their translation of John 1:   “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was {what} God {was} . This one was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him ,

The following excerpt is taken from the monumental work titled The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense , authored by Robert M. Bowman Jr. & J. Ed Komoszewski, published by Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024, Part 2: Like Father, Like Son: Jesus’ Divine Attributes , Chapter 12: In the Beginning Was the Word, pp. 227-230. In my estimation this is  THE  best and most comprehensive exposition and defense of the biblical basis for the Deity of Christ. Every s

The [N]ew [T]estament calls the devil a dragon and the ancient serpent: “And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads . His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nation

In this series of posts I am going to provide evidence from the Hebrew Bible for the existence of Satan as a spiritual archenemy that opposes God’s people. I primarily do so because it is argued that there are a few scanty references to Satan in the Old Testament that are questionable, since certain scholars claim that these texts are not actually referring to the same spiritual antagonist, which appears in the New Testament. Here are the OT passages where Satan is mentioned: