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Well since you are interested, I will give you even more of my thoughts from my years of Christian Blogging as an Eastern Christian and a Psych major and Grad student (very handy when it comes to Epistemology, including in Christianity). I do 1) Naive Realism A lot of your points, boil...

I like this question very much because it has been something I have had to deal with a lot starting out as a Protestant and later on as an Eastern Christian. Infact I was starting to think about giving a general exposition on the topic from the general ancient / Eastern Christian perspective...

OK @Nancey I guess folks who are interested in this topic may need to email me, or maybe follow me on another platform like Facebook, Youtube etc. Thanks

(Responding to another poster on another board, who thought "The angel of the Lord was just an arch angel of special anger) From what I can tell, Angel of the Lord in general describes a theophany. The only passage I sort of had some doubts on was this passage. The Fall of Jericho 13 Now when...

"Two Powers in Heaven" theology My synopsis In Second Temple Judaism BC 500 to AD 70 many rabbis and other people who studied the scriptures began to notice weird things going on in the Old Testament, especially with "the Angel of the Lord". The Angel of the Lord does not act like a normal...

I figured I should include this, something I blogged on Facebook a long time ago, maybe 2017-2019. Elohim and the Trinity The Genesis opening and first few verses of the chapter are the first "proof texts" or bullet point when it comes to what would become what we know as "the doctrine of the...

The expression of hard monotheism is not really defensive when you see the activities of traditional Jews against Christian teaching. I would point especially to Tovia Singer especially on YouTube. Judaism in the aftermath of the Talmud has really gone out of it's way to be bury the theology...

This thread is a continuation of another I did on Christian Forums dot come over 2 years ago (History of the Trinity) but I'm going to try for it to be more focused. One of the big break throughs that has come about in recent times is our understanding of Second Temple Judaism. So what I'm...

On the Trinity. I have found my knowledge of Second Temple Judaism and Aramaic helpful in defending the Trinity doctrine from dismissive claims because the terminology used in the Nicene Creed was lifted from Stoic and maybe Platonic philosophy lots of folks try to claim "it is a pagan...

Yes my Bite def Yes at some point I need to copy and paste that article to my computer and make my own unofficial bootleg of it. The Basic issues of the Peshitta if we are talking about the Lamsa one (the main one you see advertised) is it is based on a medieval 1200 Syriac Lexicon. Now...

I think this whole "Left Behind" Rapture belief is indeed false, but mostly because Christians historically have never believed it until the advent of the Schofield Reference Bible and modern Dispensationalist Theology, which dates back to the last 180+ years.

It's a problem. I understand it. Actually a few years ago I ran across a sermon that I highly recommend. It preaches against the notion of people in our society equating forgiveness with "forgetting", and other stuff. I a nut shell it advocates that Christians try to release people...

New to you, old for me. Been following this topic closely for a good 22 years. I once had a few different Lamsa Peshitta Bibles, now I only have a Study New Testament. I believe this whole topic has been largely blown out of proportion for reasons that this little article and the comments...

Yes, 1) that is why I am a Eastern Christian. But I got to say this is one of those "In the Eye of the Beholder" things because I find a lot of Christians especially various Protestants especially Fundamentalists would say this about the ancient Christian heritage of things like the Church...

On this topic, an Eastern Orthodox Bishop wrote a paper that very elaborately and articulately states my basic position of being against this. "...The Church today claims to be ‘apostolic’. This means that its faith is based upon the testimony of Christ’s eyewitnesses, that its ministry is...

But it's not really simply at all. All Christians believe in a Final Judgement, the notion that this all began in 1844 for some esoteric reason, where Jesus goes through all the books one by one starting with earliest generations dead and working his way to the present day is something...

Jude 3 King James Version 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. @Pancho Frijoles I not only study the...

Pancho the Sunday Law dramatics of SDA are foolish. Below are the 21 Coptic Martyrs right before they were beheaded by ISIS in January 2015. It is beyond the pale of SDA wringing their hands at some future coming persecution when people are actually dyeing fro the cause of Christ now, or...

Malachi 3:6-8 King James Version 6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Psalm 119:89-90 New International Version ל Lamedh 89 Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. 90 Your faithfulness continues through all generations...

(Opening Into from Seventh Day Adventist web site explaining this doctrine) "A Seventh-day Adventist term for the preliminary phase of the great final judgment by which God intervenes in human affairs to bring the reign of sin to a close and to inaugurate Christ’s eternal reign of righteousness...