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Author: Clinton Chisholm
The Reformation: Built on a Blunder?
Historians especially and specialists in New Testament Greek should note that this is merely a question a ’wondering out loud’ despite the statements that follow. Almost everyone will say that the enduring maxim arising from Martin Luther’s reformation is sola scriptura sola fides (scripture alone, faith alone) because as Romans 1:17b says “…the just shall…
Slavery in the Bible: Michael Abrahams’s Reading Problems
Slavery in the Bible: Michael Abrahams’s Reading Problems The Bible is probably the only ancient text that any Mike, Mary or Marcia waxes warm about despite stark ignorance of the book’s actual texts, original languages and historical contexts (plural). The lay critic may be very educated but (s)he and even most Christians need to understand…
Jamaica: A Jericho Road Without a Samaritan?
The narrow approximately 20 mile stretch of road from Jerusalem to Jericho mentioned in the parable of the Samaritan (Lk. 10:30-37) was infested with robbers or bandits who hid out in the caves along the way. We are so familiar with it that we not only misname it the parable of the Good Samaritan (reflecting…
The Trinity: A Primer
Within Christianity, there are three basic groupings concerning the composition of the Godhead. There are trinitarians, binitarians and unitarians or ‘oneness’. Trinitarians hold that the biblical testimony reveals that the term ‘God’ is applied to three distinct persons, described as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The vast majority of Christian churches are trinitarian. It…
Jesus is God in John
If our Jehovah’s Witnesses friends are correct in their view that Jesus is not regarded as God in John or anywhere else in the New Testament, then all churches need to repent of heresy, radically revise their doctrines and seek the light of Scripture through the Watchtower Tract & Bible Society’s publications. I say this…