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The Biblical Adam and the Genus Homo
“Ecclesiae Magisterium non prohibet quominus « evolutionismi » doctrina, quatenus nempe de humani corporis origine inquirit ex iam exsistente ac vivente materia oriundi — animas enim a Deo immediate creari catholica fides nos retinere iubet” -Pope Pius XII[1] For more… Read More ›
Can God Sleep? A Brief Dyophysite Exploration of Christology, Neurobiology and Somnology
[Nota Bene: I hope (time permitting and God willing) to do a series of entries for this blog on the subject of the plausibility of Christian doctrine in light of “natural revelation” (i.e. what can be inferred from observing creation)…. Read More ›
Brief Note on Parallels in Variant Forms of the Shema and the Lord’s Prayer
One of the central prayers of Judaism is the Sh’ma`.[1] The name of the prayer is derived from the opening word of Deuteronomy 6:4, though the prayer as it is recited in Judaism goes beyond that verse.[2] Interestingly, however, when… Read More ›
Bible says Canaanites were wiped out by Israelites but scientists just found their descendants living in Lebanon
It is a command that led the leading atheist Richard Dawkins to claim that the God of the Old Testament was “a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser … a genocidal … megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully”. For God had ordered the… Read More ›
New Testament Contradictions
Jay Smith could learn something here – because Theology is not his strong point – and any religions’ main foundation is always THEOLOGY. If that foundation is weak, then the whole building is weak. Watch as Paul and Hussain dismantle… Read More ›
Old Testament Contradictions
Paul & Hussain touch on the theological inconsistencies in the OT & NT Bibles and put them up against each other, exposing the fact that the monotheist message of both is severely compromised! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAiy7-nsI1w&t=12s
Early Christian Monotheism
Paul Williams continues on from the last episode; the topic of conversation shifts to the early Christian monotheism and how today it is anything but monotheistic. Featuring Hussain Thomas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFDLltiQMpM
Dante & Salvation
Jason Thomas starts with the idea of the Holy Ghost in Islam and Paul Williams compares Dante’s Divine Comedy with the early Church understanding of hell/purgatory and then contrasts this with the Islamic variant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=816GzUzmk-c
Irrefutable proof that the Bible of the Early Church was different to the Evangelical Bible of today
Christian missionaries often tell me that the Bible contains 66 books. And it is true that modern Evangelical Bibles do contain 66 books of the Old Testament and New Testament. However, reliable witnesses from the ancient church such as the… Read More ›
Muslims and Catholics Are More Alike Than You Think
By Dr Craig Considine, a Roman Catholic academic. He makes many good points, but he makes a few incorrect statements about Islamic practice. Since he took his position as the Holy Father in 2013, Pope Francis has consistently encouraged Catholics… Read More ›
Looking again at 1 Corinthians 15:27-28
Have a look at this verse as we read it in two popular Christian translations of the Bible: As Omer remarked earlier on this blog: “It boggles the mind how someone can think that God and Jesus are the same… Read More ›
The God of Jesus
This video helps showcase the apostolic belief in the human Jesus and his God.
McLatchie argues that Acts is “trinitarian”
Dale Tuggy shows how McLatchie attempt to read his evangelical tradition into the New Testament text as fallacious and if consistently applied would lead to silly interpretations. Read the whole devastating critique of McLatchie reasoning at Professor Dale Tuggy’s Trinities blog …
Jesus Supported the Death Penalty
Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. [Exodus 21:17] According to Rev Steven Anderson, Jesus is backing up the commandment in Exodus 21 in Matthew 15:4: For God said: ‘Honor your father and mother’ and… Read More ›
David Wood is effortlessly refuted by unitarian Christian Professor of philosophy
Where did Jesus say “I am God, worship me”? Did Jesus imply that he’s God himself? article by Dale Tuggy David Wood, a convicted criminal turned polemicist against Islam, suffered a crushing rebuttal of his argument that Jesus implied he… Read More ›
The Bible proves Jesus had a God.
Ephesians 1:3
Pope doubts visions – but where will it all end?
Paul tells of his preaching about the resurrected Christ: “After that, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision…” Acts 26:19
What Bible scholars really think about John’s gospel you will probably never hear from your pastor/minister/priest
I’m sorry to break the bad news to you: what scholars think of the historical value of John’s gospel is a million miles from what the man in the pew thinks: J.D.G. Dunn, The Evidence for Jesus. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster… Read More ›
The Pilgrim’s Bible
I have just spent a delightful evening with a neighbour in Southern France. He is an English antiquarian book collector and lives in a sumptuous residence (as you can see below). He showed me his 1608 edition of the Geneva Bible,… Read More ›
The gospels are not literal records of the ministry of Jesus.
Rev Professor Raymond Brown (died 1998), was an American Catholic priest and a prominent Biblical scholar. I had the privilege of hearing him lecture on Pauline theology at the University of Oxford. Brown was one of the first Catholic scholars to apply… Read More ›
The subordination of women in Christianity
‘As in all the churches of the saints, 34 women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. 35 If there is anything they desire to… Read More ›
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