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The Messiah on Yahweh’s Throne – The NT Witness to Jesus’ Divine Sovereignty over all Creation Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun In this section of our series I am…
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The Messiah on Yahweh’s Throne – The NT Witness to Jesus’ Divine Sovereignty over all Creation Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun We continue from where we left off.…
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The Messiah on Yahweh’s Throne – Addendum Sam Shamoun In this section of our series we are going to be responding to some of the common objections…
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Does the OT predict that the Messiah Would be resurrected on the third day? Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun One will often find Muslim dawagandists appealing to…
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Does the OT predict that the Messiah Would be resurrected on the third day? Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun We resume with our reply. The other problem we have…
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Does the OT predict that the Messiah Would be resurrected on the third day? Pt. 3 Sam Shamoun We continue our examination of the OT writings in order…
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Does the OT predict that the Messiah Would be resurrected on the third day? Pt. 4 Sam Shamoun We now come to the final part of our discussion. The…
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The Divine Messiah Revisited Even More OT Proof for the Messiah’s Godhead Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun In this article we are going to present additional proof…
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The Divine Messiah Revisited Even More OT Proof for the Messiah’s Godhead Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun Who Justifies and Saves? Continuing from where we left…
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The Divine Messiah Revisited Even More OT Proof for the Messiah’s Godhead Pt. 3a Sam Shamoun The Divine Messiah Has Come! In this part of our…
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The Divine Messiah Revisited Even More OT Proof for the Messiah’s Godhead Pt. 3b Sam Shamoun In this section we are going to take a look at what the…
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Jesus as the First Creature The Impossibility and Irrationality of the Arian Position Sam Shamoun Muslim apologists are fond of quoting…
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Jesus and the Criteria for Deity Additional Evidence that the NT Documents affirm the absolute Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun According to Biblical…
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Addendum A Critique of James D. G. Dunn’s Assessment of Paul’s Worship of Christ Sam Shamoun This article is a supplement to [Jesus and the Criteria…
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Examining the Deity of the Lord Jesus in light of the theology of Psalms Sam Shamoun The Psalms have a lot to say concerning the character and works…
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Trusting in Yahweh’s Divine Royal Son Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun According to the Psalms, Yahweh expects all the rulers of the earth to submit to the rule of…
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Trusting in Yahweh’s Divine Royal Son Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun We continue from where we left off. Could such things be said about David or any of the other…
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Christ – Our Hope and Trust More Proofs for the Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun Other parts in this series can be found here:…
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Christ as the Divine Amen More Proofs for the Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun Earlier parts of this series can be found here:…
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Divine Encounters of the OT – The book of Daniel’s witness to God’s Uniplurality Sam Shamoun The canonical book of Daniel is a truly fascinating…
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The Son of Man as the Son of David Examining the OT Evidence for The Messianic Identity of Daniel’s Heavenly Figure Sam Shamoun Sometime in the sixth…
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The Christology of Luke-Acts Additional Evidence for the absolute Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun In this article we are going to look at specific…
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More Hints from Luke’s Gospel to Christ’s Divine Identity Jesus as the Object of Divine Worship Sam Shamoun The Gospel of Luke records an incident…
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Patristic Evidence for Luke 23:34 Sam Shamoun The following is a list of citations from various church fathers which confirm that Jesus’ prayer to…
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Carmen Christi Worshiping Christ as God Sam Shamoun Pliny the Younger, a Gentile governor of the Bithynia, in his correspondence with the emperor…
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Jesus Christ – The Eternal Yahweh Who Became Flesh Revisiting the Issue of Jesus Receiving the Divine Name According to Philippians 2:9 Sam Shamoun…
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Jesus Christ – The Eternal Yahweh Who Became Flesh Revisiting the Issue of Jesus Receiving the Divine Name According to Philippians 2:9 Pt. 2 Sam…
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Excursus Jesus’ Post-Resurrection Status and Equality with God the Father Sam Shamoun This excursus supplements the article _Revisiting the Deity of…
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Jesus Christ – He who is over all, God blessed forever! [Part 1] Sam Shamoun In one of the earliest NT writings the blessed Apostle Paul refers to…
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Jesus Christ – He who is over all, God blessed forever! [Part 2] Revisiting Paul’s Christology Sam Shamoun It is asserted that it is rather unlikely…
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More Proof Of Jesus’ Absolute Goodness and Essential Purity This article is intended to supplement the following responses, How can Jesus be God when…
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Even More Proof That Jesus Is Absolutely Good And Therefore Absolutely Divine! Sam Shamoun This particular article is meant to go along with this…
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God Alone is Good Jesus must therefore be God Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun In this article we are going to take a typical anti-Trinitarian argument, one often…
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God Alone is Good Jesus must therefore be God Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun We continue from where we left off. Christ’s impeccable and infallible nature insures…
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He Who Comes – More Explicit Evidence for the Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun In this article we are going to present evidence to establish that both the…
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Jesus Christ – The Risen Son of God and the Exalted Lord of glory! More Evidence that Paul thought of Jesus as God Sam Shamoun Scholars have long…
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What did the Apostle Peter really believe about Jesus? An Examination of Peter’s Christological Views Sam Shamoun Introduction It is common to find…
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Jewish Christology Pt. 1 An examination of early Jewish Christian beliefs in the Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun Introduction Muslims have started to…
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Jewish Christology Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun We continue with our examination of the Epistles of James and Jude in order to provide additional evidence that…
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Jewish Christology Pt. 3 Sam Shamoun We have come to the final section of our examination. Jesus as the Sovereign Lord of the _Shema_ The following…
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The Christology of James and Jude What The Commentators and Scholars Are Saying Sam Shamoun Introduction In this specific section we will be quoting…
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The Early Christian Proclamation: Christ as the Lord of All and Believers as the Slaves of Jesus Sam Shamoun The Quran claims that the disciples of…
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More Evidence that Jesus and His Disciples Did Not Teach Islam Sam Shamoun Since the Quran argues that the followers of Christ were all Muslims (Q.…
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Jesus as “a god” alongside God: Jehovah’s Witnesses and John 1:1 Sam Shamoun {Muslims occasionally use the writings of the JWs to support their…
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The Deity of Christ in light of Jesus’ I AM Statements Sam Shamoun In this article we are going to analyze Jesus’ I AM pronouncements in light of the…
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Excursus – An I AM saying in the earliest Gospel Sam Shamoun In one of John’s I AM sayings Jesus walks on the sea in a clear display of his sovereign…
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The Early Church Fathers on John 8:58 Sam Shamoun In this particular article we will be quoting from the writings of the early church fathers, the…
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Yahweh is one, Yahweh alone Examining the Deity of Christ in light of the Divine Name Sam Shamoun The inspired prophetic writings testify that the…
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The Significance of Jesus’ Name in Acts – More Proof for the Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun According to the Hebrew Scriptures there is only one who is…
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Yeshua (Jesus) – the Name above all names! Sam Shamoun Since Muslims are fond of pointing to Song of Solomon 5:16 as a prophecy of Muhammad by name…
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