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According to the online Catholic Encyclopedia, among the reasons why the Council of Florence was convened was to settle the issues of purgatory, the filioque and papal primacy in order to reunite the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churched with Rome: The Ferrara Council opened on 8 January, 1438, under the presidency of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, whom the pope had commissioned to represent him until he could appear in person. It had, of course, no other objects than those of

There is explicit evidence within the canon of the Holy Bible that the Pentateuch, or the first five Books of the OT, are the Torah or Law which God gave to and through Moses. For starters, the Hebrew Bible consistently refers either to the book of the Law of Moses, the Law of Moses, or what God commanded through Moses: “Yet he did not put the sons of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: ‘Fath

In this article I will quote various Christian writers, theologians, apologists and/or fathers of the early Church in relation to their interpretation of the following verse from John’s Apocalypse: “‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.’” Revelation 1:8 New International Version (NIV) Here’s another translation, which is based on a different Greek text: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the endi

In this post I will quote specific Old Testament texts, which Jewish traditions interprets as Messianic prophecies, in order to show that the nations are commanded to worship the Messiah. I will provide those Jewish traditions to affirm the Messianic understanding of thes verses. All emphasis will be mine. Psalm 45 6 Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever. The scepter in your kingdom is a scepter for justice. 7 You have loved what is right and hated what is wrong. Tha

I continue with the extracts from Eusebius’ history in regards to the debates and disagreements over the canon: The Canon as Protestantism’s Achilles’ Heel Pt. 1. Book VI Chapter 14. The Scriptures mentioned by Him. 1. To sum up briefly, he has given in the Hypotyposes abridged accounts of all canonical Scripture, not omitting the disputed books, — I refer to Jude and the other Catholic epistles, and Barnabas and the so-called Apocalypse of Peter. 2. He says that the

In this post I will be quoting sections of Eusebius’ Church History in respect to the various debates and disagreements over the canonicity of particular books, which were/are considered sacred. Some of these writings did not make it into the canon but were highly regarded and viewed as inspired by some if not many early Christians. The purpose in highlighting these debates is to show the dilemma that Protestants who affirm Sola Scriptura face since one cannot have the Scri

The following historical anecdote is taken from Eusebius’ Church History, Book III. It shows the great love that John had for Christ’s flock and his willingness to sacrifice everything for their salvation. All emphasis is mine. Chapter 23. Narrative Concerning John the Apostle. 1. At that time the apostle and evangelist John, the one whom Jesus loved, was still living in Asia, and governing the churches of that region, having returned after the death of Domitian from his

I now come to the final segment of my discussion: HAS JESUS ALWAYS BEEN JEHOVAH GOD? PT. 2. Further evidence that Christ has always possessed the divine name seeing that has always been God as to his very nature comes from Thomas’ climactic confession after beholding the risen Lord in his glorified, immortal physical fleshly body: “But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples were telling him: ‘We have seen

REFUTING ANOTHER ANTI-TRINITARIAN RUSE I continue from where I previously left off: HAS JESUS ALWAYS BEEN JEHOVAH GOD? PT. 1. In this post I will provide further evidence that Jesus has always existed as Jehovah God by nature. THE WITNESS OF THE BAPTIST Another way of proving that Jesus has always possessed the name Jehovah is by seeing how John the Baptist described himself: “He said: ‘I am a voice of someone crying out in the wilderness, “Make the way of Jehovah straight,”

REFUTING ANOTHER ANTI-TRINITARIAN RUSE There are anti-Trinitarian cults that interpret the following words of the Lord as a denial of his being Jehovah by his very nature: “I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them, I used to watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me

Refuting A Common Arian Canard In this final segment (To the Glory of God the Son Pt. 2), I am going to take a further look at the text of Philippians in order to show that the very context of this verse refutes the notion of Jesus being a creature exalted by God. Note carefully what the blessed Apostle wrote: “for which very reason God raised him supremely high (hyperhypsosen) and granted him the name above every name, that at the name of Jesus EVERY knee of what is IN HEAVE

Refuting A Common Arian Canard I resume my refutation of Greg Stafford and his fellow Arian heretics: To the Glory of God the Son Pt. 1. As I had noted previously, the glorification of the Father and the Son is reciprocal in that it isn’t merely the Son that glorifies God. Rather, the Father himself is committed to glorifying the Son in like manner: “‘But I am not seeking glory for myself; there is One who is seeking and judging.’… Jesus answered: ‘If I glorify myself, my gl

Refuting A Common Arian Canard There are certain Arian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism) apologists, specifically Gregory Stafford, the founder of a cult group called Christian Witnesses of Jah that recently sprung into existence (http://elihubooks.com), that employ the following passage, “and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:11 To argue for their belief that Christ is a subordinate deity si

The Scriptures distinguish the true God from the other so-called gods by identifying him as the God of the Patriarchs, i.e., the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The sacred writings further do so by referring to him as the God of Israel: “Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi′hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not la

In this post I will quote from some of the early Christian writers that either viewed the book of Enoch as Scripture or believed it contained genuine prophecies. All emphasis will be mine. Jude 14Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied against them when he said, 15“Behold, the Lord is coming with tens of thousands of his saints, to pronounce judgment on humanity and to convict all the ungodly for all the godless deeds that each has impiously committ

As we stated at the conclusion of the first part of our discussion ( Will the Real Bart Ehrman Stand Up? Pt. 1), Ehrman believes that certain verses in the NT identify the Lord Jesus as the human manifestation of the Angel of the LORD, a divine figure that appears quite often in the Hebrew Bible. Ehrman believes that this is the view of the poem that the Apostle Paul incorporated in his letter to the Philippians, specifically in chapter 2, verses 5-11. Scholars commonly refer

In this series of post I am going to be documenting some of Bart D. Ehrman’s contradictions, specifically those he has made in respect to Christ’s divinity. After reading and listening to him for so many years, it has become apparent to me that Ehrman is more than willing to contradict what he has said or written in order to avoid making specific concessions, which would confirm that the conservative, evangelical position regarding the Trinity and the Deity of the Lord Jesus

The Jewish book of mysticism called the Zohar interprets Gen. 1:26 as the words that the Shekinah spoke to God himself: וְלָא עוֹד אֶלָּא דְּעַזָּא וַעֲזָאֵל הֲווּ מְקַטְרְגֵי עֲלֵיהּ בְּזִמְנָא דְּאָמַר שְׁכִינְתָּא לְקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם, אָמְרוּ מָה אָדָם וַתֵּדָעֵהוּ. מָה אַתְּ בָּעֵי לְמִבְרֵי אָדָם, וַתֵּדָעֵהוּ דְּעֲתִיד לְמֶחֱטֵי קַמָּךְ בְּאִתְּתָא דִילֵיהּ דְּאִיהִי חשֶׁךְ. דְּאוֹר (מ"י דף כ"ח) אִיהוּ דְּכוּרָא וְחשֶׁךְ נוּקְבָא שְׂמָאלָא חשֶׁךְ

In this article I will be citing some early and ancient Jewish and Christian interpretations of Genesis 6:1-4, where the sons of God that came into the daughters of human beings to have sex with them are explicitly identified as angels. It was during this time that the Nephilim appeared on earth and that children were born from this union. Here is the passage in question: “Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them

In this post I will be sharing various hadiths on the Quran appearing as a man on the last day to dispute with Allah, as well as its variant readings and textual corruptions. The Talking Quran Chapter on the virtue of following the Qur’an, the reward contained in acting upon it, and the punishment contained in neglecting it. Abu Ubayd narrated to us, he said: Hushaym narrated to us, he said: Ziyad ibn Mikhraq narrated to us, from Abu Iyas, from Abu Kinanah, from Abu Mu