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Is the story of Jesus just a recycled version of Ancient Myths?

Post published:15 November 2022
Post category:Jesus Messiahship
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Numerous people claim that the story of Christ is not only a fake story but also a recycled one from many ancient myths. This claim was mostly promoted by Gerald Massey, a self-proclaimed Egyptologist. He claimed that multiple gods share the virgin birth on 25th of December, and that it is not a Christian story. Massey concluded this based on his own translations of ancient texts, however, his translations were found to be inaccurate. His translations and studies have, therefore, been refuted by other Egyptologists. In his book “Did Jesus Exist? The Birth of a Divine Man”, Dr. Bart Ehrman, a New Testament scholar focusing on the history of Christ, refuted several claims of why and how the story of Christ is a recycled story. One of the researchers he refuted was Kersey Graves, who wrote a book named ‘’The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours’’ in the 19th century.…

Is the Christian Faith Founded on the Bible Only?

Post published:12 November 2022
Post category:Tradition
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The Sola Scriptura doctrine means "Scripture alone," that is relying on the Bible as the only source for the Christian faith. For the early Protestant Reformers, Sola Scriptura led to an implicit divorce from the tradition that was abused by the Roman Catholic Church in some practices and teachings such as the papal infallibility and the selling of indulgences. Sola Scriptura had served the reformers’ goal of attempting to recover the early Church from under the layers of the false Roman Catholic teachings which had accumulated on top of it. The Bible was the only certain, infallible witness to early Christianity that they knew as a kind of tether to the early Apostolic Church as described in the book of Acts. However, while the “traditions of men” established by the Roman Catholic Church are false, most false teachings can be based on the Scriptures as well. The true…

Did the Old Testament and Judaism allude to a Triune God?

Post published:10 November 2022
Post category:The Trinity
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Many claim that the doctrine of the trinity was introduced only in the third century when the ecumenical councils had been held to put a framework for orthodox apostolic faith against the Arian and Nestorian heresies which led to the drafting of the creed of faith. However, when examined closely, the doctrine of the trinity was introduced way before that in the Old Testament. The name that is used for God in the Old Testament is "אֱלֹהִ֔ים" pronounced "’ĕ·lō·hîm" and is usually referred to in the plural, although a singular verb is used sometimes. For example, the first chapter of Genesis states: "Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness" (Genesis 1:26) The hebrew translation of “let us make” is "נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה" pronounced "na·‘ă·śeh" which indicates a plural subject. The same phrase was used when God decided to confuse the builders of the…

Is there a proof that God exists? The cosmological argument

Post published:7 November 2022
Post category:God's Existence
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Modern scientific theories and hypotheses around the origin of the universe fully support the necessity of a non-material first cause, a “creator”, for the universe. For instance, both the Standard Big Bang Model, and the various proposed Past-extended Big Bang Models, necessitate a beginning of the universe and of time itself. As such, the argument for the existence of a creator from cosmology proceeds as follows: The universe, as everything bound by physical laws, has a beginning. Therefore, infinite regression of physical causality to explain the existence of the universe is not possible, because of the conclusion in (a) that everything bound by physical laws already has a beginning, Therefore, There is either nothing, or something not physical, that caused the universe to exist; but Nothing is not capable of causing anything into existence. Therefore, the universe was brought to existence by a non-material creator The first condition…