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The Holy Bible depicts our Lord’s blessed mother as typifying or personifying the nation of Israel by taking language, which is reminiscent to the way the Hebrew Scriptures portray God’s people, and ascribing it to her. For instance, the nation is collectively addressed as the virgin daughter of Zion or the virgin daughter of Judah: “this is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion , hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; th

I continue from where I previously left off: Veneration of the Saints Pt. 1 ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/veneration-of-the-saints-pt-1 ) . Here I will list examples where God permits, and in some cases even demands, that certain individuals be served, employing the very same key Hebrew ( avad ) and Greek ( douleuo ) terms used in relation to serving God. For instance, even though God strictly condemns serving others as gods besides him, “And God spake all these words

In this post I will quote the verses where individuals receive reverence, obeisance, relative worship etc., with God’s express approval. Here I will focus on all the places where the Hebrew ( shachah ) and Greek words ( proskyneo ) are employed, which are the very terms used in relation to the worship given to God: The God-breathed Scriptures exhorts believers to worship ( shachah ) and serve ( avad ) the true God alone: “To this day they continue practicing the former ritual

A BIBLICAL CASE FOR MARIAN VENERATION According to the Hebrew Bible, the mother of the Israelite king was given the status of queen mother. In other words, the [O]ld [T]estament shows that it wasn’t the wife of the king that was the queen but rather his mother: “Also he removed Maachah his grandmother from  being  queen mother , because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and burned  it  by the Brook Kidron.” 1 Kings 15:13 “Also he rem

In this post I will cite from a few of the early Christian writers who viewed Mary as the new Eve, just as Christ was the new Adam, who through her obedience undid what Eve’s disobedience did to creation. JUSTIN MARTYR Chapter 100. In what sense Christ is [called] Jacob, and Israel, and Son of Man Justin:  Then what follows—’But You, the praise of  Israel , inhabit the  holy  place’— declared that He is to do something worthy of praise and wonderment, being about to rise agai

A Further Illustration of James White’s Inconsistency James White has built his reputation by debating Roman Catholics where he employs arguments which sound reasonable at first glance. Yet once a person begins to dig a little deeper it then becomes apparent that White’s claims are either shallow, inconsistent, or just outright deceptive and dishonest. As one studies the issues deeply it becomes clear that White engages in circular reasoning and is grossly inconsistent. Take,

It may surprise Christians to discover that Martin Luther candidly admitted that the Catholic Church traces itself back to the Apostles, that it genuinely has Apostolic Succession, despite having (in Luther’s erroneous view) corrupted itself throughout time. Here is Luther in his own words. All emphasis is mine:   Today the pope and his crowd cry out against us that they are the church, since they have received Baptism, the Sacrament, and Holy Writ from the apostles and are t

Courtesy of William Albrecht. AD 100-700: Beginning to the end of the Patristic era The Protoevangelium of James And Anna made a song to the Lord God, saying: I will sing a song to the Lord my God, for He has looked upon me, and has taken away the reproach of mine enemies; and the Lord has given the fruit of His righteousness, singular in its kind, and richly endowed before Him. [A.D. 150]). Here Mary is called the fruit of justification, with the utilization of the Greek wor

Courtesy of William Albrecht. The Greek Fathers Here are a number of ancient experts and what they say it means; each of them is a Greek-speaker from a culture basically identical to that of St. Luke; there are a couple repeats from the previous thread, but from them I give new material, too; the passages are expositions by the authors of the meaning of Luke 1:28, generally centered on chaire, Kecharitomene : Gregory Thaumaturgus (205-270 AD): O purest oneO purest virginwhere

In this post I will be referencing the late Protestant scholar J. B. Lightfoot’s monumental work on the early church’s view of the blessed Mother’s virginity. All bold and capital emphasis will be mine. Lightfoot did a careful, painstaking analysis of the early Christians writings, examining the extant sources from the first century and up unto the fifth century AD, in order to see what the fathers, theologians, apologists and writers believed about Mary’s perpetual virginity

In this post, I will be citing the exegesis of Protestant expositors in regards to the language employed by Luke in recording the annunciation of, and subsequent reactions to, Jesus’ virginal conception. It has long been noted that Luke describes this miraculous event in a way that is strikingly reminiscent to the manner the Hebrew Bible speaks of the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle/Temple, which symbolized God’s presence among his people. This has led many to conclude

The following articles and rebuttals, If Jesus is God… was he praying to himself ( https://www.answeringislam.net/Shamoun/q_jesus_praying.htm ) Revisiting the Issue of Jesus Praying to and Worshiping God ( https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/jesus_praying.html ) Examining Islam’s Teaching that Allah Prays and Worships ( https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/allah_worships.html ) More proof that Allah prays like his creatures do ( https://www.answeringislam.net/aut

According to the Quran, Muhammad’s deity prays just like the angels and Muslims do: They are those on whom are the prayers (salawatun) from their Lord  and mercy, and it is they who are the guided-ones. S. 2:157 Those on whom are prayers from their lord  and mercy, and those are the guided. (Usama Dakdok. The Generous Qur’an: An accurate, modern English translation of the Qur’an, Islam’s holiest book  [Usama Dakdok Publishing, LLC], p. 74; bold and italicized emphasis mine) H

In this post I am going to provide even more evidence that Allah prays and worships just like Muslims do. The following is taken from the  Dalail-al-Khayrat Sharhi  of Kara Da’ud, d. 1541: “Then I beheld a single pearl of emerald green upon which was written this line of writing: LA ILAHA ILLALLAH, MUHAMMAD-UR-RASULULLAH,ABU BAKR AS AS-SIDDIQ WA ‘UMAR AL-FARUQ THERE IS NO GOD BUT THE ONE TRUE GOD (AL-LAH);MUHAMMAD IS THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH.ABU BAKR – THE TRUTHFUL, AND ‘UMAR –

In a previous rebuttal ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/mohammed-hijab-admits-allah-worships-like-muslims-do ), I quoted Muhammadan Mohammed Hijab’s admission that the Arabic word used in the Quran to describe Allah praying, namely,  salah , actually means  du’a : “And the word actually  salah  means  du’a . This is the root word.” ( Trinity or Tawhid?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNMc0VTDUA&t=37s ) I then cited specific narrations where his prophet reportedly stat

In the second rebuttal period of his debate with David Wood, Mohammed Hijab admitted that the Arabic word used in the Quran to describe Allah praying, namely, salah , actually means du’a : “And the word actually salah  means du’a . This is the root word.” ( Trinity or Tawhid?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD90fAbe38U&t=1s ) Herein lies the problem for this dawagandist.  Du’a  is simply the word used for invocation or supplication. And according to certain allegedly sound

One of the major acts of worship for Muslims is the recitation of the Quran, a point which the Islamic scripture itself repeatedly makes: And when the Qur’an is recited, give ear to it and pay heed, that ye may obtain mercy. S. 7:24 Pickthall Perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) from mid-day till the darkness of the night (i.e. the Zuhr, ‘Asr, Maghrib, and ‘Isha’ prayers), and recite the Qur’an in the early dawn (i.e. the morning prayer). Verily, the recitation of the Qur’an in

So Not About a Future Messiah at All? The following is taken from the Jews for Jesus website: https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/are-the-messianic-prophecies-in-the-past-tense-so-not-about-a-future-messiah-at-all/ . Hebrew Tenses Sometimes it is claimed that the messianic prophecies cited by Christians are in the past tense. Therefore, it is said, they cannot refer to a future, coming Messiah. This is an invalid argument.  There is no such thing as “tense” in biblical Hebrew.  

For most of the Muslim world, the particular Arabic version of the Quran that is recited is the reading attributed to Hafs Ibn Abi Dawud Al Kufi. What makes this rather ironic, in fact, astonishing is that this specific narrator/relater/reciter of the Quran was known to be a liar who was an untrustworthy thief. This is why Sunni scholars decreed that his hadiths are to be abandoned. The following is a translation of the contents found on this page: https://abdelzahra1.com/?pa

In this post I will be citing this online article published by a group of Quran alone Muslims:   Abu Hanifa: The Heretic Who Became a Sunni Icon . It’s aim is to show how one of Sunni’s Islam’s greatest scholars Abu Hanifa, a figure who even has a school of jurisprudence, was at one time condemned by the Muslim community at large as a heretic and disbeliever. Men such as Ahmad ibn Hanbal and even al-Bukhari himself viewed Abu Hanifa as a dangerous and pernicious individual wh