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The Holy Bible clearly teaches that believers cannot revere and serve any other being as their heavenly Lord apart from YHWH: “None is able to serve two lords (Oudeis dynatai dysi kyriois douleuei), for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.” Matthew 6:24 Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) “Serve the Lord with fear (douleusate to Kyrio en phobo), and rejoice in him with tre

We continue from where we previously left off: The Garbled Up Quran Pt. 1. Muslim scholar Farid Esack mentions the problem that Muhammad’s community faced in trying to explain the appearance of non-Arabic words in a text claiming to be written in clear Arabic: The Qur’an itself repeatedly asserts that it is a unique and inimitable “Arabic Qur’an” (12.2, 13.37, 16.103) in order to communicate its meaning in a perfect manner to a people who took great pride in the expressive qu

In this series of articles I am going to be responding to Muslim-turned apostate-turned Muslim-turned apostate again-turned Muslim one more time Ibn Anwar’s attempt at explaining away the fact that the Quran contains foreign words in an article, which has since disappeared, even though it claims to be “revealed” in pure Arabic speech: We know indeed that they say, “It is a man that teaches him.” The tongue of him they wickedly point to is notably foreign, while this is Arabic

I share some of the many statements from St. John Chrysostom, one of the greatest saints biblical exegetes of the Church, affirming the primacy of Peter. These citations attest that Chrysostom held to Peter being the Rock and Leaders of the universal Church, having been given a preeminence over the rest of the holy Apostles by our risen Lord himself. All emphasis will be mine. He says unto him, Feed My sheep. And why, having passed by the others, does He speak with Peter on t

I continue from where I left off: Peter’s Primacy in the Early Church. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM John 21:19 This spoke He, signifying by what death he should glorify God. He said not, Should die, but, Should glorify God, that you may learn, that to suffer for Christ, is glory and honor to the sufferer. And when He had spoken this, He says, Follow Me. Here again He alludes to his tender carefulness, and to his being very closely attached to Himself. And if any should say, How then did J

In this article I will reference statements from some of the greatest theologians, apologists, scholars, bishops and/or sons to show that the unanimous belief of the universal Church was that Peter was the chief and head of all the holy and blessed Apostles. All emphasis will be mine. Epistle of Clement to James Chapter I.-Peter’s Martyrdom. Be it known to you, my lord, that Simon, who, for the sake of the true faith, and the most sure foundation of his doctrine, was set apar

One of the clearest evidences that Jesus was already being worshiped as YHWH by his Jewish followers in Israel and Jerusalem comes from what the Apostle Paul wrote in his first epistle to the Corinthians. Scholars typically date it around 53-55 AD, less than 20 years of Jesus’ physical, bodily resurrection. At the conclusion of the letter, Paul breaks out in a prayer to the risen Jesus where he employs an Aramaic expression to do so. The Apostle even transliterates the Aram

Deuteronomy 6:4, commonly referred to as the Shema, is the very heart of the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish faith. It is also the very foundation of the New Testament proclamation of the Triunity of God. The passage stresses the fact of YHVH being the only God whom his people are to serve and worship, which can be seen by way the following Jewish translations render the verse: “Hear, O Israel! The ETERNAL is our God, the ETERNAL alone.” Revised JPS, 2023 “Hear, O Israel! י

This post is intended to supplement the following material: MATERIAL FOR THE ANDANI DISCUSSION. Tawrat as the Hebrew Bible and the Injil as a written text Tawrat occurs eighteen times in the Qur’an, and seems to be derived, perhaps indirectly, from the Hebrew term Torah.7 It describe a scripture given to Moses, which was “sent down” from God (Q5:44). The Qur’anic term Tawrat is often taken to denote the Pentateuch, or the first five books, associated with Moses, though it is

In this post I shall share Epiphanius’ somewhat lengthy comment where he alludes to the blessed Mother’s assumption by likening her to Elijah, in the context of condemning a heretical group called the Collyridians who had deified Mary and offered sacrificed to her as a goddess. The readers will further see how Epiphanius also spoke out against there being female bishops and priests governing the Church. 3,1 But I shall also go on to the New Testament as well. If it were ordai

The letter was written by Eusebius of Caesarea to his congregation, explaining why he and the others fully embraced and consented to the initial creedal formulation of Nicaea. In so doing, Eusebius is shown to be a Trinitarian who did not teach that the Son and the Spirit are creatures which were brought into being from nothing (creatio ex nihilo). All emphasis will be mine. Letter on the Council of Nicaea Letter of Eusebius of Cæsarea to the people of his Diocese. 1. W

I continue from where I previously left off: PS. 2:7 & ETERNAL GENERATION PT. 1. GOD’S CONTINUOUS “TODAY” In this part I will be focusing on the term used in Psalm 2:7, namely, “today” (semeron): “So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you (ego semeron gegenneka se)’;” Hebrews 5:5 English Standard Version (ESV) My purpose is to see if this word can bear the meaning given t

In this post I am going to examine the [N]ew [T]estament use of Psalm 2:7 in respect to the eternal begetting/generation of the Son. I will provide some of the exegetical reasons why so many of the early church fathers/writers saw this as an [O]ld [T]estament prooftext for the Son’s eternal generation from the Father, a generation that is beyond time and unlike the way finite, temporal creatures beget or generate. I quote the entirety of the second Psalm in order to get the c

Another Passage Which Exposes Muhammad’s Fraud Since the Quran challenges unbelievers to find discrepancies and mistakes within it, in order to disprove its divine origin, Do they not consider the Qur’an (with care)? Had it been from other Than God, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy. S. 4:82 Y. Ali I have, therefore, decided to highlight another serious blunder which exposes Muhammad as a fraud and false prophet. Muhammad erroneously assumed that a

The following section is taken by The Son is Truly Son: The Trinitarian and Christological Theology of Eusebius of Caesarea (Studia Traditionis Theologiae: Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 46), written by Adam R. Renberg, and published by Brepols Publishers Publication in 2021, pp. 60-68. All emphasis will be mine. Holy Spirit Eusebius, like many other theologians in this period, does not develop a detailed pneumatology—throughout his extensive corpus of apolo

In this post I will be quoting from Against Marcellus and On Ecclesiastical Theology (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series), translated by Kelley McCarthy Spoerl & Markus Vinzent, and published by The Catholic University of America Press in 2017. Eusebius is refuting a heretic named Marcellus who denied that the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit have always been personally distinct from one another. According to Eusebius, Marcellus had to a similar view to the modalist

The article that I am posting can be accessed here: The Relatives of Jesus. The Relatives of Jesus By Richard Bauckham Careful readers of the NT know that one of Jesus’ relatives, his brother James, played a prominent part in the early history of the church. Not so well known is the fact that other members of the family were also important figures and continued to exercise leadership in Palestinian Jewish Christianity down to at least the early second century.1 Genealogy of t

I continue with my series on Eusebius’ Trinitarianism: Eusebius on the Trinity Part 1. The excerpts are be taken from Against Marcellus and On Ecclesiastical Theology (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series), translated by Kelley McCarthy Spoerl & Markus Vinzent, and published by The Catholic University of America Press in 2017. Eusebius refutes the heretic Marcellus’s gross mishandling of Proverbs 8:22-36, a passage which many Christians interpreted as the prehuman Chris

Eusebius of Caesarea was a noted historian who wrote a comprehensive history of Christianity, beginning with the eternal generation of the Word and his subsequent human incarnation from the blessed Virgin, and culminating with events taking place at his time (circa 324 AD). Eusebius states that Christ is the eternally generated Wisdom/Word of God who existed before the ages and before every creating thing came into existence. Hence, this renowned Christian historian rejected

I cite a section from St. Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses (“Against Heresies”), where he explicitly states that the elders/bishops personally received and were taught a tradition from the Apostles such as John that our Lord was older than thirty, and was in fact in his forties when his earthly ministry terminated. St. Irenaeus even quotes John 8:57 to prove that this tradition is anchored in both Sacred Scripture and Tradition. All emphasis will be mine. 4. Being thirty years