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An objection that is often used against the Deity of Christ is to cite the words of our Lord concerning the knowledge of the day and hour: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Matthew 24:36 “But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Mark 13:32 Since Jesus includes himself among those who do not know the hour of his coming in judgement agai

There are certain Muslim polemicists and anti-Christian rabbis such as Tovia Singer who deny that Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is a prophecy of the vicarious suffering and substitutionary death of the Messiah, particularly Jesus. Some argue that this refers to the national Israel suffering for the sins of the nations in order to bring healing and restoration to the world. Noted Messianic Jewish scholar and apologist Dr. Michael L. Brown explains why this interpretation is actually desp

In Mark 4:30-32, our Lord used the example of the mustard seed to describe how God's Kingdom begins as something rather insignificant and small that eventually blossoms into something great and massive: "And He was saying, 'How shall we compare the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil, yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes largest

In this post I will quoting from St. Augustine’s On the Holy Trinity, Book 15. All emphasis will be mine. Chapter 25.— The Question Why the Holy Spirit is Not Begotten, and How He Proceeds from the Father AND the Son, Will Only Be Understood When We are in Bliss. For if any belong to Him, although far duller in intellect than those, yet when they are freed from the body at the end of this life, the envious powers have no right to hold them. For that Lamb that was slain by

The following is taken from this article, The smallest of all the seeds. The post isn’t written by someone who believes in the inerrancy and inspiration of the Holy Bible. In fact, quite the opposite since the views of the writer show that he decries the notion of the Bible being inerrant and infallible, which is why his claims carry greater weight. The author shows that Jesus’ statements aren’t at all in error when they are interpreted in light of their historical and cult

Since some are going around claiming that the Holy Bible NOWHERE says that the Pharaoh of the Exodus drowned, I decided to write this short post and let the readers decide if this is true or not. Compare what the following biblical passages state in respect to God overthrowing the Egyptians in the Red Sea at the time of Moses: “So Moses reached out with his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it;

In this post I will be excerpting the section of the late biblical scholar and linguist Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s book Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, where he provides a somewhat lengthy refutation of the claim that Rameses II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus, which would place this miraculous event around 1290 BC. How can 1 Kings 6:1 be accepted as accurate if Rameses the Great was Pharaoh of the Exodus? 1 Kings 6:1 states, “Now it came about in the four hundred and eightiet

The following is taken from the late biblical scholar and linguist Dr. Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan Publications, Grand Rapids, MI 1982, pp. 57-59. Do the names for God in Genesis 1 and 2 show a difference in the authorship of the two chapters? It is true that throughout the thirty-one verses of Genesis 1 the only name for God used is Elohim, and that the personal name for God, i.e., Yahweh, becomes prominent in chapter 2. Neve

Skeptics claim that Mark contradicts Matthew and Luke in that the former states that Jesus instructed his followers to take a staff with them as they embarked on their missionary journey, where Matthew and Luke record Jesus forbidding them from doing so. I will let the late Dr. Gleason L. Archer address this supposed discrepancy: In Jesus’ commissioning of the twelve disciples, were they or were they not to take a “staff” (cf. Matt 10:10; Mark 6:8)? In Matthew 10:5-6 Jesus co

The following is taken from the late Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 1982, pp. 177-178. Who killed Goliath–David or Elhanan? 1 Samuel 17:50 states that David cut off Goliath’s head with the giant’s own sword, after he had first felled him with a sling and a stone. Because of this amazing victory over the Philistine, David became the foremost battle-champion among the Israelite troops, even t

According to Bible critics Matthew made a mistake in having Jesus say that Zechariah son of Berechiah was murdered between the temple and the altar, since that was Zechariah son of Jehoaida (cf. 2 Chron. 23:20-22). This alleged discrepancy dissipates with a little digging. Dr. David H. Stern, a Jewish Christian, explains: 35 Hevel (Abel). See Genesis 4:8. Z’kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar. There is a discrepancy. According to 2 Chroni

Some critics of the Holy Bible claim that Matthew false and mistakenly attributed a prophecy from Zechariah 11:13 to the prophet Jeremiah (cf. Matt. 27:9-10). Here I will cite the lengthy refutation to this argument from Dr. Michael L. Brown’s book, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, Volume 4: New Testament Objections, published by Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI, 2007, pp. 38-41. All bold, italicized emphasis will be mine. 5.4. Matthew 27:9–10 is totally confused. First Mat

I am republishing Jimmy Akin’s post: The Fate of Judas Iscariot. How should we understand the differences in how Matthew and Luke (in Acts) record the fate of Judas? Taken from my book A Daily Defense: Day 170: How Judas Iscariot Died Challenge: Matthew and Luke contradict each other. Matthew says Judas hung himself (Matt. 27:5), but Luke says that “falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out” (Acts 1:18). Defense: The accounts preserve differen

Seeing that the fate of Judas often comes up in discussions with Muhammadans as a means of discrediting the Holy Bible, I post the response of the late Dr. Gleason L. Archer for the benefit of Bible believers. I also include his response to another specific aspect related to the story of Judas. How did Judas Iscariot die? Matthew 27:3-10 records Judas’s remorse at having betrayed Jesus to the Jewish authorities. Judas first attempted to return the thirty shekels that they had

In the following articles, Ishmael is not the Father of Muhammad, Part 2, we provided conclusive evidence that Ishmael cannot be the physical progenitor of Muhammad. In this post we are going to provide additional proof from the Quran itself that Muhammad could not have been a descendant of Ishmael. According to the Islamic scripture, the pagans of Arabia– specifically those living in Mecca and Medina–whom Muhammad was sent to were never given an inspired Scripture which th

The Quran states that the Jews are guilty of the same sin that Christians commit in worshiping a specific human figure as the son of Allah: And the Jews say: Uzair (Auzayrun) is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! S. 9:30 Shakir Suffice it to say, the Islamic expositors are all over the place c

The Quran claims to be a fully detailed scripture that clearly explains all things that it references: [Say (O Muhammad)] “Shall I seek a judge other than Allah while it is He Who has sent down unto you the Book (The Qur’an), explained in detail.” Those unto whom We gave the Scripture [the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] know that it is revealed from your Lord in truth. So be not you of those who doubt. S. 6:114 Hilali-Khan This Quran could not possibly be authored by

The Quran garbles out the encounter between God and Moses at the burning bush. For instance, in one place the Muslim scripture claims that Moses’ staff appeared to him as a living entity: Has there come to you the history of Moses When he saw a fire (in the desert), he said to his family, “Wait! Behold, I see a fire far away. Perhaps I can bring to you a burning torch from there or find some guidance at the fire (to get directions).” (This is the story of the days when Moses

The Quran repeats the story of Moses' encounter with God, often with major verbal contradictions and variations, which includes the sign of Moses' hand turning white: Then we raised after them Musa with Our communications to Firon and his chiefs, but they disbelieved in them; consider then what was the end of the mischief makers. And Musa said: O Firon! surely I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds: (I am) worthy of not saying anything about Allah except the truth: I hav

Why Muslims are Guilty of Committing Shirk Muslim apologists/polemicists will go to any extreme in order to prove Muhammad, even to the point of committing the unforgivable sin in Islam, which is called shirk. Shirk is when a person associates a partner with Allah either in his exclusive attributes, sovereignty and/or worship: Who has made the earth a resting place for you, and the sky as a canopy, and sent down water (rain) from the sky and brought forth therewith frui