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The Deity of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew - Part 1

...(in both historical and religious contexts of the writing of Matthew and the events themselves). That Jehovah himself will save Israel from their sins is a common theme found in texts such as; Psalm 130:7-8 “Israel, wait for the Lord; For with the Lord there is mercy, And with Him is abundant redemption. And He will redeem Israel from all his guilty deeds.” And significantly; Isaiah 43:11“I, only I, am the Lord, and there is no saviour besides Me Some may object here that this must be some kind of hyperbole because others have the same title “saviour” assigned to them and approved in scripture, such as;” 2 Kings 13:4-5“Then Jehoaha...

Armageddon Is Not A Battle Plan: What Revelation Actually Says — And Why It Matters Right Now

...me as the historical vindication of the Gospel’s central claim: that Caesar is not Lord, and that the empire which crucified the Son of God would not have the final word. This third layer had, in fact, been anticipated centuries earlier. Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the great statue , which represended the successive world empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, ends not with a battle but with a stone, cut without human hands, that strikes the statue and becomes a mountain filling the whole earth (Dan. 2:31–45). Jerome, in his Commentary on Daniel, identified that fourth empire as Rome and understood the stone as the Kingdom of Christ expanding th...

Women should be silent?

...tural and historical explanations of this aside - and common explanations such as men and women sitting separately in Jewish synagogues which then followed through to the early church, (and women/wives then trying to shout across to their husbands causing havoc and Paul calling for order, not submission) - if some men and women, and some denominations in general, are taking Paul so literally on these points, do they sit in silence? And I mean TOTAL silence? Do the wives wait to get home to talk to their husbands about the service? Because remember, it's shameful otherwise (though, interestingly, not a sin per se). What if you're not married? Do single women...

Jesus was a pagan copy, and other Christmas myths

...ce of the historical event of the New Testament [resurrection] on mythology, not the reverse.  If you don't want to read a long essay on the subject though, this video by Inspiring Philosophy breaks it down nicely in just under 5 minutes: Other myths debunked If not Osiris, Jesus is often claimed to be copied from the Egyptian god Horus... or the Roman god Mithras (fun fact: the Mithras cult actually ended up trying to mimic aspects of Christianity, not the other way around!). Apparently, everyone just copied whoever came before them, and hoped no one would notice! All of these claims are equally as nonsensical as the others and have "facts" which are c...

New Covenant Israel is no longer physical (nor literal)!

...efore the historical foundation of Christianity. For example, many of the early Christians taught that Christ had fulfilled the Old Covenant in himself, and therefore superseded it with the New: Justin Martyr (about 100 to 165): "For the true spiritual Israel ... are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ." Tertullian (ca.160 – ca.220 AD): “Who else, therefore, are understood but we, who, fully taught by the new law, observe these practices,—the old law being obliterated, the coming of whose abolition the action itself demonstrates. . . . Therefore, as we have shown above that the coming cessation of the old law and of t...

The Coming Kingdom of the Son of Man

..., nor the historical position of the Church for millennia. As the Benson commentary (amongst others) puts it: ...until the Son of man shall come — To destroy their capital city, temple, and nation. The destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is often called the coming of the Son of man. See Matthew 24:27; Matthew 24:37; Matthew 24:39; Matthew 24:44; Luke 18:5. "The son of man comes" or the "coming of the son of man" is a phrase only used in one particular way all the way throughout the Gospels: to mean the judgement of God on a nation. This is seen in many places in the Old Testament, often called the Day of the Lord. The same is true here, Jesus is once again...