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In this article I will quote the relevant verses from both the Old and New Testaments where Israel is either said to be Sodom and Gomorrah, or even worse than them. I will further show how God also warns that Israel’s punishment will be much more severe and worse than that which he inflicted upon Sodom and Gomorrah. “I will heap calamities on them; I will exhaust My arrows on them. They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth o

In this post I will be looking at two OT texts, which the early Christians saw as foreshadowing Christ’s crucifixion. These early writers employed these particular verses as prophesying or prefiguring Christ’s death on a cross. First Prophecy I begin with the following reference from the Jeremiah: “and I am as a lamb or a bullock brought to the slaughter; and I know not that they fabricate fabrications against me: - we ruin the tree with the bread (balachmo) and we cu

In this post I quote the commentary of Mar Ishodad of Merv (Mari Ishoʿdaḏ Maruzaya), who was the bishop of Hdatta (circa 850 AD), which is near current-day Mosul, Iraq. Ishodad is considered a very important and prominent theologian of the Assyrian Church of the East, who wrote some very influential commentaries on the Syriac version of the Holy Bible. Here I quote what this Assyrian Bishop wrote in respect to our Lord’s citation of Psalm 110:1 to prove that David acknowled

David Kimchi, also known as RaDaK, was a medieval rabbinic commentator and philosopher who lived from 1160–1235 AD. In this post I will quote from his commentary in regards to a few OT texts that are either Messianic or have a direct bearing on Christian exegesis of OT verses, such as Psalm 2:12. Radak on Psalms 2:12 נשקו בר כמו וינשק לכל אחיו (בראשית מה טו). ובר כמו בן; וכן מה ברי ומה בר בטני (משלי לא ב). או פרושו מן לברי לבב (תהלים עג א) ואם יהיה ענינו בן יהיה פרושו: נש

The narrations cited here are taken from the following YT video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psr1AR0KvO4). All emphasis will be mine. https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=4&tSoraNo=93&tAyahNo=6&tDisplay=yes&LanguageId=1 Tafsir Quran, Surah Ad-Duhaa (93), verse 6 by Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi When the Prophet’s father, Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib, passed away, the Prophet’s mother, Aminah, was still pregnant with him. After the Prophet was born, h

In this post I will cite the works of three intellectual and spiritual giants of the Faith to show how they interpreted Genesis 1:26-27, particularly verse, where God uses plural pronouns when speaking of making man in the image and likeness of God. The readers will see that these magnificent men of the Church took the plural as proof that the Trinity created mankind in their image and likeness. They flat out rejected that God was either speaking to the angels or to himself a

In this post I will be quoting from St. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word. This great Trinitarian defender and Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt appealed to Messianic prophecies to prove that Jesus is the Christ and the Lord God whom the prophets foretold would come in the flesh and die for the sins of the world. The texts which Athanasius quoted include: Genesis 49:10; Numbers 24:5-17; Psalm 22:16-18; 107:19-20; Isaiah 7:14; 11:10; 19:1; 35:3-6; 63:9; 53:1-12; 65:1-2; Jer

The following citation comes from St. Augustine's On the Trinity, Book 1.. The blessed Augustine quotes Philippians 3:3 to prove that the Holy Spirit is given latreuo, which is the worship giveN to God alone. All emphasis will be mine. 13. Similar evidence has been collected also concerning the Holy Spirit, of which those who have discussed the subject before ourselves have most fully availed themselves, that He too is God, and not a creature. But if not a creature, then not

In the following posts, AHMAD OR THE HOLY SPIRIT? More of the Incomplete Quran Exposed: Who or What Is Ahmad? I conclusively proved that Ahmad in the Quran is not Muhammad’s name, but a descriptive noun referring to the Holy Spirit. Here I will provide additional evidence to show that the prophecy of Ahmad is based on Jesus’ promise to send the Paraclete, who is the Holy Spirit of God. As I showed in the aforementioned posts, specific English versions do not translate the ter

In this post I will be citing from St. Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John where he discusses our Lord’s statement to the Father being the only true God, and where he also explains our Lord’s words in v. 5 as referring to God having predestined the glorification and exaltation of Christ’s humanity from before the creation of the world. All emphasis will be mine. All emphasis will be mine. Tractate 105 John 17:1-5 1. That the Son was glorified by the Father in His fo

The Aramaic Bible, commonly referred to as the Peshitta, employs a unique word MarYah, which some authorities believe is a compound phrase consisting of Aramaic Mar (“Lord”) and the shortened form of the Tetragrammaton or the divine name yod-heh-vav-heh, namely, Yah. If this is so then the term literally means "The Lord Yah," or "The Lord Jehovah." What makes this all the more interesting is that the New Testament uses this phrase for the Lord Jesus himself. This means tha

In this post I will be quoting from two English translations of the Syriac translation of the Holy Bible, which is called the Peshitta. I cite this particular ancient version for the express purpose of showing that the Aramaic term for God, namely Alah/Alaha, is used for both the Father and the Son. I will also use it to prove that Jesus is identified as God Almighty who became flesh, the eternally begotten Son who is one in essence with the Father and the Holy Spirit. All

The following quote is taken from Josephus’ The War of the Jews 5:5, translated by William Whiston. He states that the Divine Name consists of 4 vowels. All emphasis is mine. ז. ובני משפחת הכהֻנה, אשר לא יכלו לשָׁרֵת בקֹדש מפני מום אשר בבשרם, היו באים לפנים מן הקלעים עם אחיהם הכשרים ומקבלים את חלקי הזבחים על־פי משפט הכהֻנה, אך לבושיהם היו בגדי חֹל. כי רק הכהנים המשרתים שׂמו עליהם בגדי קֹדש. ואל המזבח וההיכל קרבו רק הכהנים, אשר לא נמצא בהם פסול, בלבוש בוץ (שש), ונאסר עליהם ב

I quote from Sefaria’s online version of Midrah Tanchuma where the Messiah is referenced. What makes this rabbinic source rather important is that it ascribes the following OT texts to the Messiah and/or the Messianic age: Ge. 27:22; Exod. 25:6; Num. 24:17; Pss. 21:4, 6; 72:17; 121:1; 132:7; Isa. 11:1-10; 40:9; 52:13; Zech. 4:7, 10; 9:9; 10:6; Mal. 4:2. All emphasis is mine. ד"א הקול קול יעקב והידים ידי עשו, ידיו של עשו מתמוטטות כשיבא קולו של יעקב, זה מלך המשיח, שנאמר על הר

The teaching of the ancient Churches that Mary was made perfectly holy and kept absolutely pure is based on the necessary conclusion of what the Scriptures teach in respect to the holiness and purity of God. For instance, the Holy Bible is explicitly clear that nothing unclean and impure can dwell with God: “If I see wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;” Psalm 66:18 “Behold, the hand of Yahweh is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That

The verses cited here in respect to the Deity of Christ are taken from the New English Bible (NEB). “but I will pour a spirit of pity and compassion into the line of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Then They shall look on me, on him whom they have pierced , and shall wail over him as over an only child, and shall grieve for him bitterly as for a first-born son.” Zechariah 12:10 “ Jesus then came up and is spoke to them. He said: 'Full authority in heaven and on ea

The quotations from St. Augustine are taken from On the Trinity , Book 1 . All emphasis will be mine. Chapter 8.— The Texts of Scripture Explained Respecting the Subjection of the Son to the Father, Which Have Been Misunderstood. Christ Will Not So Give Up the Kingdom to the Father, as to Take It Away from Himself. The Beholding Him is the Promised End of All Actions. The Holy Spirit is Sufficient to Our Blessedness Equally with the Father. 15. As for that which the apost

In this post I will list some of the many rabbinic sources which describe the Servant of Isaiah 42 as the King Messiah and/or apply it to the time of Messiah’s coming. All emphasis will be mine. הָא עַבְדִי מְשִׁיחָא אֶקְרְבִינֵהּ בְּחִירִי דְאִתְרְעֵי בֵּיהּ מֵימְרִי אֶתֵּן רוּחָא דְקוּדְשִׁי עֲלוֹהִי דִינִין לְעַמְמִין יְגַלֵי: Behold, my servant, the Messiah , whom I bring, my chosen in whom one delights: as for my Word, I will put my Holy Spirit upon him ; he shall r

Enoch contains a fascinating depiction of the souls of human who were slaughtered, by the instigation of the rebellious angels that taught mankind to make weapons to kill, crying out to the angels of heaven to bring their petitions to God that he might avenge them: [Chapter 8] 1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the

The following is taken from this post: Prayers to Saints in the Pre-Nicene Era – Energetic Procession . It is commonly claimed that the practice of praying to departed saints and to angels is a late development in Christianity, probably post-dating the Council of Nicea. In this post, I will try to argue that prayers to departed saints were relatively common in the pre-Nicene Church. There are 5 to 8 clear post-Apostolic references from at least 3 locations. Some of the refere