The beginning of Wesley Huff’s lecture (see the video at the end of this post) was a condensation of the opening of the book, “The Heresy of Orthodoxy” by Andreas Kostenberger and Michael Kruger– very important to see the connection between Walter Bauer, Bart Ehrman and...

Go to the side bar at You Tube for the rest of the lectures.

Cardinal John Henry Newman admitted that the early church (“catholic” / universal -first 500 years) is different than the later church (later = Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox).

It does not seem possible, then, to avoid the conclusion that, whatever be the proper key for harmonizing...

Always treated with immense suspicion the narrative of Miaphysites of Egypt and Syria welcoming Arab imperialism in lieu of Byzantium. Akin to the bs of the supposed “tolerant cosmopolitanism” in Arab/Maghrebi occupied Iberian peninsula. https://t.co/lsLTz07STp

— Romanos I...

Jerome’s Latin translation of the Greek metanoeo / μετανοεω was a mistake. The Latin was “do penance” and developed into doing external deeds that the priest said, like crawl up steps and say 100 hail Mary’s or give money to the...

An old Dividing Line podcast from 2005, with Dr. James R. White​ where the late Dr. Robert Funk, one of founders of the hyper-liberal, skeptical “Jesus Seminar” (with other liberal scholars like John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg), played clips from a 1989 radio interview with...

A good analysis of saving faith in Jesus Christ.  The true faith of conversion that demonstrates the reality in application and change.

https://thepilgrimsmedia.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/the-characteristics-of-conversion-what-is-faith/#_ftn1

 

These are all from an Amillennial perspective, which I am trying to grasp better.  I was taught the Pre-Millennial, Pre-tribulational view as a young Christian and in seminary, I came to the Post-Tribulational view of the Rapture (that the Rapture and 2nd Coming of Christ are one unified...

The music in this makes it really dramatic and effective, in my opinion.  Whoever came up with the music to go with this section of Piper’s sermon, well . . . did a good job.

This section of the above video comes from a few minutes in “Kill sin by the Spirit” (How to kill sin,...

An excellent article by Jonathan Mclatchie.

Some of the Surah references don’t have the exact verse, but one can find them easily enough with google these days.

https://crossexamined.org/simple-reason-quran-word-god/

An excellent 10 part series, by Dr. Michael Kruger:

https://www.michaeljkruger.com/the-complete-series-10-misconceptions-about-the-nt-canon/

Muslims charge the Christians and Jews with altering, changing, corrupting the text of the previous Scriptures.  (previous to the Qur’an)  Yet the Qur’an teaches that the previous Scriptures are not corrupted or changed.  (Surah 10:94; 5:46-48; 5:68) See here

One of the...

To begin, this is an illogical argument because one can take any religious text and add or delete a verse from it. There’s no magical force field around the text itself.

Stewjo004, a Muslim, and author of the article:

“Corruption of the Scriptures: Part I – Does Islam Confirm...

Note that none of the passages actually use the word, Messiah / Mashiach.

Muslims, Jewish people, and even some liberal scholars claim that Isaiah 52:13-15 and 53:1-12 is not about the Messiah just because the word Messiah is not used there.

Paul Williams, a British convert to Islam, makes this...

The Main points of the lecture are written out here. Pastor Mike Winger also does a good job in defense of the Gospel of Mark and authorship. First in a series on Mark.

As you listen, please open the Bible, and stop and read the passages and think about them:

John 1:1-5

John 1:14

John 20:28

Dr. White makes a great point – “he said to him” – εἶπεν αὐτῷ – clearly “My Lord and My...

http://thessalonians516.blogspot.com/search/label/Imputation

Joey Henry wrote an excellent 8 part response that I hope to write more about later.

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Originally posted on Jan. 19, 2015

Third Century Opposition to Claims of Primacy by Stephen (d. 257) especially by Cyprian (d. 258)

On Catholic Answers, episode #6796, Dr. David Anders argued that in the third century Pope Stephen asserted the primacy of the Roman see and...