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The prophet Isaiah announced that a specific virgin will give to birth to Immanuel: “Then Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, ‘ Ask a sign for yourself from Yahweh your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven .’ But Ahaz said, ‘I will not ask, and I will not test Yahweh!’ Then he said, ‘Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sig

The great St. Jerome is my beloved patron saint, and there is a reason why he is. The following is taken from St. Jerome- Biblical Scholar . All emphasis is mine. “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” These words spoken by our next intellectual of Church history capture the heart of his life and mission. Born 347 AD in modern-day Albania, Jerome grew up in a Catholic family. His parents provided him with a fine education in his youth and even sent him to Rome for f

In the year 268 AD, a provincial council was convened at Antioch, Syria where the Apostles of the risen Lord often frequented and where believers were first called Christians: “Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” Acts 11:25-26 Authorized King

The following quotation is taken from the book authored by J. P. Moreland & William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview , published by IVP Academic Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, second edition, 2017, Part VI—Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, pp. 577-582. All emphasis will be mine. 2.1 Logos Christology The stage for both the later trinitarian controversy and the christological controversies , in which the doctrines of the Trinit

The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s  A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs , published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 241-255. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of  The Ante-Nicene Fathers , ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, 1885–1887, reprinted by Hendrickson in 1994). For instance, this 1.144 means volume 1, p. 144. Bercot will also signify whether the Chri

The following is taken from noted New Testament scholar Murray J. Harris’s  Jesus as God –The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus  published by Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI, first paperback edition, 1992, Appendix II: The New Testament Testimony to the Deity of Christ, pp. 315-317: The outline does not purport to be in any sense an exhaustive analysis of the NT witness to Christ’s deity. Rather it is a sketch of one approach–a rather traditional approach–to this

Murray J. Harris is one of the foremost Evangelical biblical scholars and is also a profound exponent of the historical existence, essential Deity and bodily resurrection of Christ. He has written some of the finest works and commentaries in relation to core Christian doctrines. In this post I share excerpts from one of his books affirming and defending Jesus’ historical existence, bodily resurrection and divinity. 1. JESUS IS THE POSSESSOR OF DIVINE ATTRIBUTES One verse beyo

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, Chapter 5: Worship of Jesus, Part 1: Crown Him with Many Crowns: Jesus’ Divine Honors , pp. 112-114. In my estimation this is THE  best and most comprehensive exposition and defense of the biblical basis for the Deity of Christ. Every serious Trinit

According to arian cultist Greg Stafford, Paul quotes Deuteronomy 32:43 in Hebrews 1:6 to highlight the fact of God commanding all his angels to worship Jesus, his Firstborn Son: “… The fact is the author of Hebrews (whom Jehovah’s Witnesses believe to be the apostle Paul), under inspiration, quoted the interpretation of Psalm 8:5, as given in Psalm 8:6 of the LXX, showing that the angels of God’s heavenly court are “gods.” He revealed the same thing when in Hebrews 1:6 he qu

The Muslim sources all confirm that the following verses, By the forenoon (after sun-rise); And by the night when it is still (or darkens); Your Lord (O Muhammad) has neither forsaken you nor hated you. S. 93:1-3 Hilali-Khan Were “revealed” when Gabriel did not appear to Muhammad for approximately 15 days, even though he had promised to do so, which caused the unbelievers to mock Muhammad by telling him that his satan had deserted him and that his lord hated him: Narrated Jun

Unveiling the Reason Why Allah Speaks in the Plural Non-Muslims are baffled over the reason why the Quran repeatedly has Allah speaking of himself in the plural. And Muslims themselves are either not clear or are not consistent why their deity so often refers to himself in the plural.    As an illustration of just how baffling and incoherent this employment of the plural happens to be, noted the following passages where the plural is jumbled up with first and second person si

According to the Islamic sources, the way a person enters into the fold of Islam is by confessing and testifying that, not only is there no other deity besides Allah, and that Muhammad is supposedly his messenger, but also must bear witness to Jesus being XLVII: “O People of the Book! Do not go to excess concerning your deen. Say nothing but the truth about Allah. The Messiah, ‘Isa son of Maryam, was only the Messenger of Allah and His Word, which He cast into Maryam, and a S

In this post I am going to provide further evidence to rebut the oft-repeated Muslim claim that Muhammad did not wage offensive wars against unsuspecting victims who hadn’t even heard of Muslims, let alone threaten or oppress them. This post will also refute the assertion that jihad is merely defensive in nature. According to the Islamic sources, Muhammad sent a threatening letter to a group of Arabic Christians from Najran declaring warfare against them if they didn’t conver

Muhammad is reported to have taught that the whole earth was given to him by his god: (6) Chapter: The expelling of the Jews from the Arabian Peninsula Narrated Abu Huraira: While we were in the Mosque, the Prophet came out and said, “Let us go to the Jews.” We went out till we reached Bait-ul-Midras. He said to them, “If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land . So, if anyone

According to the so-called authentic Sunni narrations, Muhammad disliked and discouraged his followers marrying barren, infertile women. Rather, he preferred and commanded them to marry young virgins and fertile women so that there would be a greater number of Muslims than non-Muslims.     67 Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah) (10) Chapter: The marrying of matrons Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah: When I got married, Allah’s Messenger said to me, “What type of lady have you married?” I r

MORE PROOF OF MUHAMMAD’S FRAUD In this post I am going to provide further evidence that Muhammad actually believed that his god created the heavens only after he had already created the earth. This will refute and expose modern Muslim polemicists for dishonestly and deceitfully twisting and butchering the Quran to make it comport with recent scientific theories and facts. All bold and/or capital emphasis will be mine. The Islamic scripture is quite explicit that the heavens w

It is apparent from the Quran and ahadith that Allah and Muhammad had an intense love-hate relationship. The Islamic corpus shows that, not only did Muhammad have to live under the constant terror and dread of his god, he even had to undergo some rather humiliating circumstances: Narrated Aisha: Magic was worked on Allah’s Apostle so that he used to think that he had sexual relations with his wives while he actually had not  (Sufyan said:  That is the hardest kind of magic as

More Islamic Fairytales According to the Islamic expositors, the following passage, And never say of anything, “I shall do such and such thing tomorrow.” Except (with the saying), “If Allah will!” And remember your Lord when you forget and say: “It may be that my Lord guides me unto a nearer way of truth than this.” S. 18:23-24 Hilali-Khan Was “revealed,” because of Muhammad’s failing to say insha Allah  (“if Allah wills”). Suffice it to say, this caused Muhammad quite a bit

I proceed from where I left off ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/revisiting-the-issue-of-the-uncreated-quran-pt-1-1 ). Here’s a quick summary of the orthodox Islamic view of the Quran: The words of Allah eternally subsist within the essence/nature of Allah since they are part of his attributes. Allah’s attributes are uncreated and therefore inseparable from him. Since Allah’s attributes are inseparable they are all divine in nature. The Quran is the word of Allah. Theref

In this post I am going to again highlight the traditional Sunni belief that the Quran is uncreated, having eternally existed with/in Allah, in order to draw out its implications on both the Islamic doctrine of monotheism known as Tauhid , and the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. The following renowned scholar of Islam sums up the Muslim view of the uncreatedness of the Quran, and some of the controversies that arose as a result of this position: The Quran believed to be etern