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Putting to Rest Some Typical Muhammadan Objections We now come to the last part of our rebuttal: https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/the-son-of-man-rides-the-clouds-pt-2a . Plurality in Unity Even if we go by the plural pronoun “them” in v. 27 this still doesn’t help the Muslims since this would still be a reference to the Most High as opposed to the saints. The reason being is that the Aramaic word for Most High is actually in the PLURAL! The Aramaic reads Elyonin , which li

Putting to Rest Some Typical Muhammadan Objections We proceed from where we previously: https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/the-son-of-man-rides-the-clouds-pt-1b . Worshiping the Most High – Not the Saints! Contrary to how some versions render v. 27, the passage is not identifying the saints as those who rule forever and whom all dominions shall serve. Rather, a carefully reading of the text itself shows that it is the Most High who is thus being described. Here is the verse

Putting to Rest Some Typical Muhammadan Objections Now begins ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/the-son-of-man-rides-the-clouds-pt-1a )  our refutation to the Muslim objections to the Son of Man being an eternal divine Being who became incarnate in the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ our. Not A Symbol for the People But A Single Individual A careful reading of the immediate context will show that the figure like a son of man is not a symbol or metaphor for the saints of G

Putting to Rest Some Typical Muhammadan Objections In this series of rebuttals I am going to respond the desperate polemics of some Muhammadan apologists who try to refute the Christian interpretation of Daniel 7:13-14. Here is what that passage states: “I saw in the night visions, and there was one like a Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him.   There was given to Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that

In this post I am going to show that, much like we find in God’s true Word the Holy Bible and among the ancient pagan cultures before and during Muhammad’s time, the Quran acknowledges the existence of a heavenly council. This council or assembly consists of heavenly divine beings whom the one true God presides over.  Compare the following: “Then  Micaiah  said, ‘Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on

The prophet Daniel was given a vision of the future, which culminates in the heavenly enthronement of the Lord Jesus Christ. In his vision the prophet saw thrones being set in place in heaven: “As I looked, THRONES were placed , and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his THRONE was fiery flames; ITS wheels were burning fire . A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands serv

This is a follow up to my post on the identity of the sons of God in Deuteronomy 32:8 ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/the-sons-of-god-of-deuteronomy-32-8-angels-or-the-children-of-israel ) Someone quoted a “scholar” who appealed to the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan  to prove his point that even the Jews that translated the Pentateuch into Aramaic viewed the sons of God in Deuteronomy 32:8 as the angels. However, here is what this particular Targum  actually says in context: “…

Angels or the Children of Israel? According to Deuteronomy, God divided the nations in respect to his people, the children of Israel: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel .” Deuteronomy 32:8 Authorized King James Version (AV) What this means is that God assigned the nations their respective territories in view of the people he was goin

Examining What the Holy Bible Really Teaches About the Heavenly Congregation The inspired Scriptures reveal that God presides over a heavenly council, whose members include various spirit creatures, specifically angels. There are some biblical scholars that believe that this council not only consists of angelic beings, but also another group of spirit creatures that they call the sons of God. In their view, the heavenly sons of God are a different class of beings from the ang

Refuting Another Iglesia Ni Cristo Objection In the opening statements of his debate with Dr. James R. White, Iglesia Ni Cristo apologist Joe Ventilacion pitted 1 John 3:20, where John says that God knows all things against Matthew 24:36, a passage where Jesus says that he as the Son doesn’t know the day or hour, in order to prove that Christ cannot be God Almighty. He then made the following assertion: “If Christ was a God on earth he should know all things.” ( Who Is God? –

We continue with our discussion: The OT High Priest & Atonement Pt. 1  ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/the-ot-high-priest-atonement-pt-1 ) . Israel Alone or the Whole World? The second point to note is that the OT high priest didn’t make atonement only for Israel, but actually offered sacrifices for the salvation of the whole world, for all the nations that God had created. This fact can be seen from Solomon’s prayer of dedication right after he had finished building th

Proponents of definite atonement will often appeal to Jesus’ high priestly role to support their position that Christ died only for the Church. They claim that in the OT the high priest would only make atonement and intercede for the people of God, namely, Israel. In a similar fashion, the Lord Jesus as the perfect High Priest offers himself up and makes intercession only for the elect of God, i.e., all those individuals whom the Holy Spirit baptizes into Christ so as to form

The aim of this post is to gather together in one place the different versions of a report attributed to Muhammad where he claims that his deity will torture Jews and Christians in hell for the sins committed by Muslims. The purpose for me doing so is to show just how sadistic, evil, and wicked Muhammad’s Allah truly is. I begin with the following narrative: Superiority of the believers in the Oneness of Allah and the punishment of the Jews and Christians Narrated Abu Musa: A

Responding to Another Typical Muslim Objection In dealing with Muslim polemicists, one will often encounter the objection that, in Islam, atonement for the forgiveness of sins is not required. Allah simply forgives anyone who asks without requiring that reparation be made for the person’s transgressions. I have decided to address this oft-repeated claim in order to show that nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that the Quran repeatedly emphasizes the point th

This short post is intended to supplement the following article where I documented from the Hebrew Bible that God does in fact accept human “sacrifice” as a means of atonement, specifically the death of the wicked: “Judaism and Human Sacrifice as a Means of Atonement” ( https://www.answeringislam.net/Responses/Menj/atonement1.htm ). According to the book of Deuteronomy, Yahweh had instructed his people to utterly destroy any Israelite city that has turned away from the Lord t

In this post, I am going to demonstrate that the primary source documents of Islam affirm vicarious sacrifices, substitutionary atonement and the imputation of a person’s righteous deeds to the account of another. For example, I’ve already mentioned the so-called authentic narrations of Muhammad where he claims that his deity will actually sacrifice Jews and Christians in hell as a ransom for all the sins committed by the Muslims: Superiority of the believers in the Oneness o

This post will be short and to the point. Bi-la kayfa  (“without [asking] how”). A theological principle of not questioning revelation when it may perplex or defy human understanding. This concept is most closely associated with al-Ash’ari, but has been also used by others, such as Ibn Hanbal. Al-Ash’ari invoked the notion  bi-la kayfa wa la tashbih  (“without asking how or making comparison”) most notably in respect of the Koran’s so-called “anthropomorphizing” expressions w

In this post I will be citing particular chapters and verses from Isaiah and contrasting them with the Aramaic paraphrase known as Targum Pseudo-Jonathan. The Targum was produced by Jews for the benefit of their countrymen who could only understand Aramaic. This paraphrase of Isaiah gives us an insight into how the Jews understood specific texts, especially as they relate to the Trinity and the Messiah. The readers will see that the Targum often replaces the words YHWH and Go

In this post I will cite from a Church father and two early Christian writers, all of whom affirm that it is the sacred unwritten tradition found in the churches that go back the Apostles which preserve the correct meaning and application of the Scriptures and the Faith. All emphasis will be mine. IRENAEUS Chapter 8  How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own pious opinions 1. Such, then, is their system, which neither the  prophets  announced, nor the L

In this post I will cite the unanimous testimony of the early church fathers of the first four centuries that Mark wrote the Gospel attributed to him while in Rome, and that he essentially wrote down the Apostle Peter’s proclamation of the Gospel, having been taken on by the blessed Apostle as his spiritual son and protégé. All bold emphasis will be mine. PAPIAS (60-130 AD) 15. This also the  presbyter  said: Mark, having become the interpreter of Peter , wrote down accuratel