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The Battle for the Trinity: Historical Heresies and Church Defences

...pture and has been affirmed by the Church through various councils and creeds. Common Historical Heresies Arianism What It Taught: Arius, a priest in the early 4th century, claimed that Jesus Christ was not of the same substance as the Father. He taught that the Son was a created being, distinct and subordinate to the Father. Church’s Response: The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD condemned Arianism, affirming that the Son is “of the same substance” (homoousios) as the Father. This is reflected in the Nicene Creed: “We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God… of one Being with the Father.” Patristic Quote: Athanasius, a staunch defend...

Biblical Inspiration and the Canon: How We Got the Bible

...the Bible has been altered or corrupted over the centuries, making it unreliable. However, the sheer number of surviving New Testament manuscripts allows us to reconstruct the original text with a high degree of confidence. We possess over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, along with thousands more in Latin, Syriac, and other languages. Among these, we have fragments from the second century, including Papyrus 52 (P52), a small portion of John’s Gospel dating to around AD 125. By the fourth century, we have complete copies of the New Testament, such as Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. With this wealth of manuscript evidence, scholars ca...

Why God Is Necessary For Morality

...“No. It has no context, it just happens to exist for no reason, and even though we don’t have access to it, we believe this rule says your monitors are too big.” This is atheist moral realism. It claims that objective moral facts exist, but they come from nowhere, are grounded in nothing, and are backed by no authority. It’s like walking into an abandoned building, seeing graffiti on the wall that says “Don’t wear red,” and thinking you’re somehow obligated to obey it. Even if the rule exists in some strange metaphysical way, why does it have any binding force on you? You’d be right to say: “That has nothing to do with me, this company,...

A City In The Sand: What A Fourth-Century Discovery In Egypt’s Western Desert Tells Us About The Early Church

...of Luxor, has been underway for several seasons. According to Hisham El Leithy, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the settlement was laid out on a deliberate grid — north-south thoroughfares crossed by east-west streets, forming open squares and public spaces. This wasn’t a huddle of huts; it was a planned town. At the centre of that plan stood a basilica church dating to the mid-fourth century AD, overlooking one of the main streets. Around it, archaeologists found the remains of two watchtowers, a heavily fortified structure with thick defensive walls, and houses with spacious reception halls and vaulted roofs — complete w...

What is Truth?

...es. Truth has been replaced by opinion masquerading as truth. “Your truth”, “my truth”, “their truth”. But we can’t just blindly accept everything we see and are told. We must use our brains, check the sources and use our reasoning. God gave us intellect and reasoning to be used. In Isaiah 1:18, God invites us to come and reason together with him. We don’t follow a blind faith, we’re never asked to believe “just because”. The Old Testament is full of times when the historical examples of God’s actions are used as an anchor and reason for faith, and the same is true in the New Testament where we have the Gospels as eyewitness accounts, ro...

Four Blood Moons and everyone loses their minds

...n pattern has appeared on Jewish feast days a big event affects the nation of Israel. The event affectingIsrael begins just before the actual years of the blood moons. To understand what will happen in the 2014 - 2015 "blood moons" you must understand the pattern of blood moons in the past. It was confirmed by NASA that we have had "blood-red moons" on the first day of Passover and the first day of Sukkoth on back-to-back years seven times since 1 A.D. Three of these occurrences were connected to 1492 (the year the Jews were expelled from Spain by Queen Isabella) , 1948 (statehood for Israel and the War of Independence), and 1967 (the Six-Day...