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Paul and the Old Testament 3: Circumcised Hearts

September 20, 2022

This post is part of a series called “Paul and the Old Testament”. St. Paul the Apostle is often accused – whether by atheists, Muslims, Jewish Rabbis, Judaizing “churches”, or others – of contradicting what the books of the Old Testament teach and introducing new doctrines. These posts are here to show that the Christianity…
My Thoughts on the ‘Is Christianity True?’ (Adam Green vs. David Patrick Harry) Debate

September 20, 2022

Last week on the 14th of September 2022, a live debate was hosted by Andrew Wilson on “The Crucible” (YouTube – Odysee). The debate was titled “Is Christianity True?” and it was between Adam Green (of “Know More News”) and David Patrick Harry (of “Church of the Eternal Logos”). David is an Eastern Orthodox Christian,…
On Clichés: “Sacrificed Himself To Himself”, “The Sin He Gave Us”, Etc.

September 18, 2022

If you’ve debated with anti-Christian atheists online – not all atheists, but often those devoted to arguing against Christianity on the web – there’s a decent chance that you will bump into some of the same cliché descriptions of Christianity. Some of the lines used include: … and so on. You’ll often see them shared…
Paul and the Old Testament 2: God’s People

September 16, 2022

This post is part of a series called “Paul and the Old Testament”. St. Paul the Apostle is often accused – whether by atheists, Muslims, Jewish Rabbis, Judaizing “churches”, or others – of contradicting what the books of the Old Testament teach and introducing new doctrines. These posts are here to show that the Christianity…
B. Stanhope: No, Isaiah 45:7 doesn’t say God creates evil (Mirror/Transcription from Blogspot)

September 15, 2022

This is a re-upload/transcription of a post written by Ben Stanhope on the now-defunct Blogspot page ‘benstanhope.blogspot.com‘. The post was titled “No, Isaiah 45:7 doesn’t say God creates evil” and was posted on 18 Oct. 2015 – the dead link can be found here, and the archived page on the Wayback Machine can be found…
Paul and the Old Testament 1: God of the Gentiles

September 9, 2022

This post is part of a series called “Paul and the Old Testament”. St. Paul the Apostle is often accused – whether by atheists, Muslims, Jewish Rabbis, Judaizing “churches”, or others – of contradicting what the books of the Old Testament teach and introducing new doctrines. These posts are here to show that the Christianity…
Paul and the Old Testament (Index)

September 9, 2022

These are the posts in my “Paul and the Old Testament” series (WORK-IN-PROGRESS). St. Paul the Apostle is often accused – whether by atheists, Muslims, Jewish Rabbis, Judaizing “churches”, or others – of contradicting what the books of the Old Testament teach and introducing new doctrines. These posts are here to show that the Christianity…
Church Fathers on ‘Hate Father and Mother’ (Luke 14.26) (Mirror/Transcription from City-Data.com)

August 28, 2022

This is a re-upload/transcription of a post from the City-Data.com forums made by the user “MPHJ7”, in the 13th of October 2021 – it’s comments on Luke 14.26 using quotes from St. Clement of Alexandria, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Augustine of Hippo. The post is titled, “How Ancient Christians Read “Hate Father and Mother”…
On “Turn the Other Cheek” (Mirror/Transcription of screenshots from 4chan)

August 25, 2022

This is a transcription of a series of 4chan posts/screencaps commenting on the Bible verse Matthew 5.29 (“But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also”). You can find the screenshots on Know Your Meme here and here. There’s…
4th Century or 21st? – Saint Basil on the State of the Church (Epist. 92) and My Thoughts On It

August 9, 2022

Recently I had stumbled across a quote from Saint Basil of Caesarea that I found very interesting. I looked up the source and found that it was from his Letters, namely letter XCII (92), with the translation found in Nicene Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II, Volume VIII. In his letter, Basil laments the current state of…