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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...

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

...claim to historical importance. That’s worth stopping and thinking about for a little while. The people who worshipped in Tabibos’s front room, and later in the basilica down the street, left no theological treatises. We know them only through an oven, a coin hoard, and a handful of broken pottery shards recording who owed what to whom. And yet they were the Church, every bit as much as Athanasius was. The ordinary, unrecorded faithfulness of people whose names survive only as labels on excavated houses is itself a kind of witness — a rare one archaeology occasionally lets us glimpse, however briefly, before the sand closes back over it. Things like...

William Lane Craig Rejects The Nicene Creed. Is He Right To?

...bit more historical texture than a viral post can give it. Long before Nicaea formalised its language, the earliest post-apostolic Christians were already working with something like what’s called the Monarchy of the Father (or Monarchical Trinitarianism) — a framework that takes the Father’s monarchia (his unique, self-existent source of divinity, or autotheos) seriously as the fountainhead from which the Son is begotten and the Spirit proceeds. This is worth distinguishing carefully from Monarchianism, the second/third-century heresy that collapsed the persons of the Trinity into one another to protect God’s oneness — the Monarchy of the Fa...

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...