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| 1: | Chadwick, Henry: The Early Church
Top 10 List: Click here When a Jehovah's Witness reads this top ten list, they either conclude the Watchtower organization engages ... Misleads the reader to a conclusion opposite to what source is saying. Chadwick, Henry: The Early Church Click to View "Constantine, like his father, worshipped the Unconquered Sun; ... his conversion should not be interpreted as an inward experience of grace ... It was a military matter. His comprehension of Christian doctrine was never very ... The Watchtower quote, leaves the false impression that Chadwick is saying Constantine worshipped the sun as a pagan, at Nicea in ... time (and continued so until about A.D. 400) to postpone baptism to the end of one's life" More importantly Chadwick said of ... Both Constantine (who delayed many years) and Jehovah's Witnesses (who delay for up to a year) are wrong in delaying their ... Some quote Chadwick on page 126, as proof that Chadwick believed Constantine never gave up pagan sun worship: "In other words, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Chadwick.htm | 97%  Size: 17K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... ... (Origen, De Principis, Book I, ch. 3, section 7) "We worship one God, the Father and the Son." (Origen, Against Celsus, Book VIII, section 12) View Origen quotes. ... This is taught both in scripture and the Ante-Nicene Fathers! Thus, the testimony of the Bible and of history makes clear that the Trinity was unknown throughout ... In fact, a true review of Constantine's life, will convince the honest seeker that he was as righteous and anti-pagan as any "good" Old Testament King of Judah in ... a whole new light on why Constantine delayed his baptism! Regarding him, Henry Chadwick says in The Early Church: "Constantine, like his father, worshipped the Unconquered Sun; . . . his conversion should not be interpreted as an inward experience of grace . . . It was a military matter. His comprehension of Christian doctrine was never very clear, but he was sure that victory in battle lay in the gift of the God of the Christians." Satanic quote! The Watchtower deliberately misrepresents Chadwick. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm | 91% Size: 110K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... ... (Origen, De Principis, Book I, ch. 3, section 7) "We worship one God, the Father and the Son." (Origen, Against Celsus, Book VIII, section 12) View Origen quotes. ... This is taught both in scripture and the Ante-Nicene Fathers! Thus, the testimony of the Bible and of history makes clear that the Trinity was unknown throughout ... In fact, a true review of Constantine's life, will convince the honest seeker that he was as righteous and anti-pagan as any "good" Old Testament King of Judah in ... a whole new light on why Constantine delayed his baptism! Regarding him, Henry Chadwick says in The Early Church: "Constantine, like his father, worshipped the Unconquered Sun; . . . his conversion should not be interpreted as an inward experience of grace . . . It was a military matter. His comprehension of Christian doctrine was never very clear, but he was sure that victory in battle lay in the gift of the God of the Christians." Satanic quote! The Watchtower deliberately misrepresents Chadwick. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm | 91% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Encyclopædia Britannica The reasons for Constantine's conversion to Christianity have been much debated. Some believe that it was an astute stroke of policy, designed to win the support of the Christians, or a wise act of statesmanship aimed at buttressing the decaying fabric of the empire with the strength of the Christian church. Neither view is very likely (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1971, Constantine, Vol. 6, p. 386) The Watchtower portrays Constantine as a pagan sun worshipper who had no faith in Christ ... The extreme Arians then declared that the Son was "unlike" (anomoios) the Father. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Arianism, Vol. I, p.509) Both Arians and Trinitarians ... According to its opponents, especially Athanasius, Arius' teaching reduced the son to a demigod, reintroduced polytheism (since worship of the Son was not abandoned), ... The Gospel According to Mark, however, did not proceed from a theology of incarnation but instead understood the Baptism of Jesus Christ as the adoption of the man Jesus ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm | 85% Size: 95K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Trinity: The role of Constantine in the Nicene creed He took major steps to rid his land of paganism. Constantine's conversion to Christianity was nothing more than a political move and ... His anti-Pagan stance as good as any "good" Old Testament King of Judah. It was the practice of the day to delay one's baptism until ... that he had open and clear views of Christian doctrine of good general knowledge. Constantine, (a pagan sun worshipper who knew nothing about Christian Doctrine) was the author of the Nicene creed. ... In other words, they felt the creed could lend support to Sabellianism (modalism, as taught today by the United Pentecostal church ... further orders that the materials of what was thus destroyed, both stone and timber, should be removed and thrown as far from the ... soil which had been polluted by the foul impurities of demon worship transported to a far distant place." (Eusebius , The Life of ... or 'established' religion of the empire." (The Early Church, Chadwick, Henry. p 122,125,127) The fact that Constantine murdered his ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-constantine.htm | 83% Size: 63K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne ... Thus, the Sabbatarian "roots" of both churches go back to exactly the same time and place. It is also highly significant that the leaders of The Worldwide ... The 7-day week was by no means universal in these ancient cultures. Finally, we must be willing to believe that the early church was so theologically bankrupt that they could so easily be swayed into the observation of a day solely based on its association with pagan sun worship, for the purpose of lowering the bar for pagans to enter into the Christian faith. It is ... See Henry Chadwick, The Early Church (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967), pp. 9-13. See also William Barclay, The Ten Commandments for Today (New York: Harper & ... Nor do we receive that useless baptism of cisterns, for it has nothing to do with this baptism of life. Wherefore also God has announced that you have ... as well as the immediate context of Paul's statement, which appears to be "pagan" as evidenced by their "renewed pre-conversion reckoning of time." ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-sabbathgate-1888ad-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 82% Size: 714K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Haruskah Anda Percaya Kepada Watchtower??? ... "It is certain, however, that from the apostolic times they paid worship to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, addressed to them their prayers, ... Menurut dugaan, ia belakangan ditobatkan, tetapi baru dipbaptis pada waktu sedang terbaring sekarat. Mengenai dirinya, Henry Chadwick ... Kutipan asli dari The Early Church "When he [Constantius] died at York on 25 July 305 the soldiers proclaimed his son Constantine as emperor. Constantine, like his father, worshipped the Unconquered Sun [page 122]... "The conversion of Constantine marks a turning-point in the history of the Church and of ... It was a military matter. His comprehension of Christian doctrine was never very clear, but he was sure that victory in battle lay in the ... It was common at this time (and continued so until about A.D. 400) to postpone baptism to the end of one's life, especially if one's duty ... distinctions, as he believed them to be, about the nature of Christ, and urging them to agree to differ, as did pagan philosophers. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-indonesian-watchtower-booklet-haruskah-anda-percaya.htm | 82% Size: 35K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | REFUTED: Full-Preterist, "Realized Eschatology", "AD 70 doctrine ... Testament prophecy is the church. 1 8. The entire first century church went extinct on Pentecost Sunday, 22nd June AD 66. 1 9. Catalogue of ... abolished after AD 70. 1 17. Lord's Supper and weekly Sunday worship is extinct after AD 70. 1 18. Full-Preterists deny water baptism ... who are both Annihilationist and Universalist who set the date of the second coming of Christ in AD 70 when the Jerusalem temple was destroyed on Monday 6th August AD 70. The CBV spiritualizes the second coming, resurrection, judgement, new heavens/Earth, water baptism and the ... earth will never be destroyed but exist into all future eternity until the Sun runs out of fuel at some very distant time in the future. ... AD 70 when chariots (not airplanes) crashed as the Christian drivers disappeared leaving the unworthy sinners behind. It's merely a variation ... The same year Pekah is killed: 2 Kings 16:5-18; 2 Chron 28:19-27. Ahaz made a model of the pagan altar in Damascus in the temple in Jerusalem ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/revelation/Refuted-Full-Preterism-Realized-eschatology-debunked-exposed-second-coming-Parousia-rapture-destruction-Jerusalem-70AD-Doctrine-Revelation-Commentary.htm | 82% Size: 1.1M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd Intro 7: Dating Revelation to AD 66: Internal and external evidences Intro 8: The Myth of Emperor Worship as the Beast from the earth in Rev ... These two scriptures trump the "fluff statements" of uninspired church fathers like Irenaeus, commonly used by "Late-dater s" as the ... In both 587 BC and AD 70, God punished Babylonians and Romans for their participation in destroying the city. However, Titus, like ... Pagan Titus said to the Jews, "You wicked villains? Why do you trample upon dead bodies in this temple" (Wars 4.201,313; 6:110,126). ... With this in mind, the author has not attempted to ascribe meaning to all the minute details in Revelation. In other words, a Christian living ... but Jesus ALONE shone: "And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light. ... offspring are determined by faith and water baptism not blood": Gal 3:27; Rom 9:6-9 a. "But it is not as though the word of God has failed. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/revelation/ | 81% Size: 3.0M Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD ... 341 Appendix VIII -- Canright: No Heathen Weekly Worship Or Rest Days 353 Appendix IX - The Adventist Sabbath ... Why did St. Paul instruct the early church not to require Sabbath-keeping of the new Gentile converts (Colossians 2:14-17)? And ... The next morning you are found frozen to death, and you go down in history as a noble Christian Jewish Sabbath-keeper who would ... We will leave it up to your imagination to figure out what happens in the Arctic spring depending on which day the sun rises for the first time of the season. Please review the dual requirements of the Sabbath commandment. Both ... who believe that the Hebrews borrowed the Sabbath idea from the pagan nations around them. The pagan "sabbath" was lunar-based. ... In the New Testament, Jesus redeemed the concept of baptism-- always a symbol of spiritual renewal-- from heathen cultic ... When did the Old Covenant law, or the Ten Commandments, ever "convert" a soul? Never! Conversion is the process by which one ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 81% Size: 2.6M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ... ... In fact, you have sought, and you have found: you have knocked, and it has been opened to you." (Tertullian, c. 160 - 225, On Baptism 20; ... by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart." ... in Henry BeKenson, ea., Documents of the Christian Church (London: Oxford, 1963), 77.) (Charismatic Chaos, John F. MacArthur, 1991, p. 74) 176 Celsus Celsus, a pagan, wrote near the end of the second century that Christians in his day spoke in tongues. ... Precious, then, is a lamp to men in darkness, and there is need of a lamp until the sun rise; and precious also is the glory in the face of ... Unlike other Protestants, the Anabaptists emphasized the restoration of apostolic patterns of worship and lifestyle, the importance of a conversion experience, baptism of believers ... the opinion of any man." (Riches, 1936, p. 384, 385) 1937 "The Watchtower is issued twice each month and brings to its readers the current ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-history.htm | 79% Size: 295K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | The Exodus Route: A scriptural proof, with the witness of history ... ... Eccl 10:20) to fly 400 km from the Egyptian watchtower (Migdol) back to Egypt with the message that Israel was trapped and ... & stand in the outer court together: Eph 2:14-15. Now both Jew and Gentile must sacrifice themselves on the altar of burnt offering and be baptized by immersion to enter church: Midrashic inference. Holy Place is replaced by Christ/... Rev 1:6; Rom 2:28-29. Priestly garments are replaced by Christian good works: Rev 19:8; Mt 22:11-12. Altar of burnt ... for physical ritual outward purity is replaced by water baptism for true spiritual forgiveness of sins for inward purity: ... They consumed manna and quail provided by miracle and water from a rock. The cloud sheltered them from both sun and rain. ... sanctity was retained through the successive changes of Pagan and Christian worship; and that the pilgrims of the Desert mounted these ... Josephus calls the Sinai Peninsula "Egypt" in Antiquities 5.78 A. Arabia at the time of Paul's conversion in 36 AD was the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route.htm | 77% Size: 477K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity Weigall, is a modernist and doesn't believe the Bible is God's word. He trashes 99% of what both JW's and Trinitarians believe as from Pagan origin. JW's leave the ... Christianity, Arthur Weigall, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) What Sabbatarians quote to prove Sunday is Pagan: "as a solar ... The Church made a sacred day of Sunday ... "largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, quoted by ... but not till, later by the Greeks or Romans, is to be sought in some primitive worship of the moon (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, ... origin: p131,132 "Washed in the Blood of the lamb" is of pagan origin: p132 Baptism and the Lord's Supper are both of pagan origin: p134, p146,147 Phrase "Soldiers ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Weigall.htm | 76% Size: 54K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Lohse, Bernard: A Short History of Christian Doctrine Second, the Watchtower, through a series of deceptive quotes, irresponsibly portrays Constantine as a faithless sun-god pagan idol worshipper with no ... Lohse, 1966, p 38, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) First, it is important to note that the doctrine of the Trinity does not go back to non-Christian sources [pagan], as has sometimes been supposed in the past. There ... All such attempts may be regarded today as having floundered. It is another question, of course, whether or not the church, in developing the ... In fact this is exactly opposite on both counts to what Lohse actually says. He flatly rejects a pagan source after stating it has its foundation ... and order; it was to be concerned about the extension of the pure worship of God; and above all else, it was to ask and to obtain God's ... Constantine's conversion had come on the heels of the Diocletian persecution, which had been the most ruthless the ancient church had ever known. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Lohse.htm | 73% Size: 22K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ... ... It is the one institution that made every effort under the sun to withhold it. The well known doctrine of Rome is that the Bible was never ... of God"-1 Pet. 4:11. There are di-gressive preachers of the Christian Church and certain com-promisers among ourselves, in some ... There is both precept and example in the word of God for the attitude in which we hold those who have spoiled the unity of the church by ... Their greatest men labored hard to uphold the use of instrumental music in the worship of the church, battling for the music to the tune of arguments on ... That is certainly a wide liberty with a broad license. It would give to every man Jew, Catholic, Pagan and Protestant, the liberty to ... Methodists may find their infant membership and sprinkling for baptism, where Catholics VIEWING THE WALLS 25 may find holy water, ... history of the church, as viewed by the general historian: the conversion BULWARKSOF THE FAITH of the Jewish nation; the conversion of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm | 73% Size: 1.6M Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Personal Evangelism 101 ... Lesson #2: "The Restoration Plea" 69 Lesson #3: "The Silence of Scripture" 72 Lesson #4: "Bible Baptism" 77 Beatitudes in Conversion 80 The Nathan Principle 85 Biblical and ... Let's not betray that coveted trust He gives us --to teach the lost (Hebrews 5:12). We are to be the light and salt of the world (Matthew 5:13-14) Salt both ... Since the whole world has less than 5 Billion people, in just 14 years the whole world would be Christian. If every member of the church converted just one a year, (assuming we begin with @ ... And some of the team are even careless about making the huddle. Worship is essential and important, but only if it inspires us to get out and do something. ... It is scriptural (Acts 16:33). The jailor was a raw pagan and knew nothing of Christianity, yet after one study he was converted. In the Bible immediacy was ... They have predicted the end of the world on five separate occasions, the last one being in 1975. They are very tightly controlled by the Watchtower Society ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-brent-hunters-evangelism-101.htm | 72% Size: 450K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Elijah and Elisha Chronology timeline 870-810 BC Replacement Theology: The church (body of Christ) replaced the Jewish Temple The Jewish Synagogue was a type of the Christian Church Physical Jews were types of ... See also detailed outline on the Jordan River and this crossing/baptism site of John the Baptist. b. Joshua's crossing point of the Jordan on dry ground ... While Baasha is building pagan altars in Israel, Asa is tearing them down in Judah: 2 Chronicles 14:3 h. While Baasha is having huge pagan festivals, Asa is exuberantly celebrating Passover and Pentecost to worship YWHW: 2 ... In both cases God fought the victory for Judah! m. While God is working to defeat the kings of Israel (except when it bugged God that Ben-Hadad II said ... Full text translation of Tablet: "To the king, my lord, my Sun, my god: Message of Bayawa, your servant. I fall at the feet of the king, my lord, my ... 8:1-2) 5. The conversion of Pagan Naaman, army general of Ben-Hadad II of Aram: 854 BC: In 854 BC, Naaman comes to Elisha to be healed of his leprosy. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/chronology/bible-chronology-timeline-Elijah-Elisha-John-the-Baptist-Jesus-types-antitypes-870-810BC.htm | 71% Size: 836K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914 ... probation, restoration, community of goods, denial of the divinity of Christ, no devil, no baptism, no organization, etc., etc. Gracious! ... Verse 12. 2. He does this in the presence and in the sight of the beast. Verse 12,14. This shows that both occupy the same territory. 3. He ... History of the Sabbath, Chapter XXV. So, then, their Sunday law would constitute an image to the church of Scotland instead of the church of ... But their conversion was only nominal. They brought with them very largely their pagan doctrines, customs, religious rites, images, gods, shrines, temples, and pomp of worship. This became the model after which the Papacy was gradually but finally formed. The Papacy in its full and final development was an image of this half heathen, half Christian, worldly kingdom. The Deadly Wound, and How it Was Healed The utter ... Think, now; what use for a literal candle in the immediate presence of God whose glory is above the light of the sun. "They need no candle, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Seventh-day-Adventism-RENOUNCED-by-D-M-Canright.htm | 71% Size: 749K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Seven Myths Of Denominationalism! ... We are not saved by repentance only. The positive aspect of the Christian life is summed up in a word: confession. Jesus made this a ... of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. ... church. So their conversions directly into the body of Christ, and not through being proselyted into Judaism (i.e., via circumcision), caused quite a stir among the existing converts, all of whom were Jews. Because these conversion also involved the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we will take up that aspect of it in more detail in Section 4.2.3.1. We will summarize the story here and quote the scriptures that we feel most relevant, but we urge you to read both of ... Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. ... To further believe that some ritual performed by others will save this person is rooted in pagan beliefs -- such is totally foreign ... ... https://www.bible.ca/r-7-myths-of-denominationalism.htm | 70% Size: 542K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Early Christian faith on Trinity, deity of Christ, personality ... ... man according to His will, He taught us these things for the conversion and restoration of the human race" (First Apology 23). 150 AD ... Martyr, First Apology, ch 16) "Whence to God alone we render worship." (Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch 17) 150 AD Justin Martyr "God ... the everlasting and heavenly Jesus Christ, your beloved Son, with whom, to you and the Holy Spirit, be glory both now and to all coming ages. ... adduce the actions of Christ after his baptism as proof that his soul and his body, his human nature, were like ours, real and not phantasmal. ... And these contain the pattern and type of a great mystery. For the sun is a type of God, and the moon of man. And as the sun far surpasses the ... Against Heresies, chapter xix.2) 180 AD Irenaeus "For the Church, although dispersed throughout the whole world even to the ends of ... but the love of Jesus Christ, entreat you that ye use Christian nourishment only, and abstain from herbage of a different kind; I mean heresy. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-trinity.htm | 69% Size: 122K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | Ancient Synagogue Literary Sources: Philo of Alexandria: 38 AD ... the 300 year old law protecting their right of property and worship in synagogues. c. 39 AD Caligula executes Flaccus, the prefect of ... accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. ... for the first time around 40 AD when Flaccus encouraged the pagan Egyptians to set up statues of Caligula in the synagogues of Egypt, ... and wolves, and lions, and crocodiles, and numerous other beasts, both terrestrial and aquatic, and numerous birds, as gods, and erect in ... and devotion to God that later Christians used as a pattern for Christian monastic orders: Philo describes them: b. "every house [of one of ... to pray twice every day, at morning and at evening; when the sun is rising entreating God that the happiness of the coming day may be ... Providence: God's eternal plan: The providential transition from Temple to Synagogue to Church Origin: Synagogues originated at Alexandria ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Ancient-Synagogue-Archeological-Literary-Sources-Bible-Jesus-Israel-Judea-diaspora-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Philo-of-Alexandria-Judaeus-50ad.htm | 68% Size: 160K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | 242 Dates for the End of the world!!! Date Setters! ... King Otto II of Germany had Charlemagne's body exhumed on Pentecost in the year 1000 supposedly in order to forestall the apocalypse. Both ... Rain of blood; sun turns red and fails to shine for three days; plague and death follow (Annales Quedlinbourgenses ad an. 1009 MGH SS 3.80).4 ... The movement died when the British monarchy was restored in 1660. 1656 Conversion and Return of the Jews; Mary Cary; mentioned in Armageddon ... The True Light Church of Christ made its claim to fame by incorrectly forecasting the return of Jesus. A number of church members had quit ... The Jehovah's Witnesses were back at it in 1975. The failure of the forecast did not affect the growth of the movement. The Watchtower ... Lindsey boldly declared that "The Rapture" would occur before Dec. 31, 1981, based on Christian prophesy, astronomy and a dash of ecological ... A group leaflet says as the year 2000 approaches, "mankind might be annihilated by the baptism of fire." Similar language turned up in Aum ... ... https://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm | 68% Size: 212K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | George Salmon's Infallibiliy of the church ... On the question of heretical baptism we have, as often happens, Father opposed to Father. [146] b. Augustine differed from Cyprian in not ... THE NICENE COUNCIL [325 AD]. Constantine, at the time not a baptized Christian, and as a politician anxious above everything for the peace of ... I do not acknowledge the one, as you do not the other; but let us come to ground that is common to both-the testimony of the Holy Scriptures." ... Church ought not to be divided on a merely personal question and pressed strongly the need to conciliate the West. But his counsel was unacceptable to the greater part of the assembly, who were jealous in maintaining their independence against Western attempts at domination. The sun, ... The Fathers attempted to prove the propriety of image worship from Scripture; but, as if conscious that they would have no easy task, they ... virtue in curing diseases, but a few drops even operated the conversion of an obstinate sinner, in whose liquor it had been mixed without ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-salmon-infallibility.htm | 68% Size: 282K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Trinity proof texts: Philippians 2:5-8 ... We could translate "And the mode of His outward expression was changed before them, and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light" (Matt. ... · Philippians with a pagan past, it seems best, on balance, to understand the expression (form of slave) against the background of slavery in contemporary society. ... This rendering has produced numerous problems for the Christian church. · Many translators of the Bible during the Reformation and after recognized the problems with ... Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower, Should you believe in the Trinity?, Arian Click to View For a full refutation of this most deceptive Watchtower booklet, click here. ... Instead, he chose the path of humility that lead first to death, then to being proclaimed worthy of worship after the resurrection and exhalation by God to possess a name among men equal to Jehovah of the Old Testament. Martin flat out says that both are possible in the Greek. He says that either way, the text ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-philippians2-6.htm | 68% Size: 320K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | "KJV Only" advocates refuted! would significantly alter the meaning of a passage, and NONE of them would contradict or alter any of the basic points of Christian doctrine. ... Is this not the ultimate example of "translation worship"? (Reject the original in favour of the translation) Did you know that the Textus ... Do KJV only advocates realize that they stand beside the Mormon church in that both groups believe that they were delivered an "inspired translation"? (Mormon's ... "Easter" Acts 12:4 "Passover"(Easter very poor choice as it confuses the pagan origin Roman Catholic "Easter" holy day with what the TR clearly says is the Jewish Passover!) "Baptism" (entire New Testament) Acts 2:38; 22:16 immersion, because ... We should note that these words do legitimately belong in Paul's account of his conversion as recorded by Luke in Acts 26 (verses 14-15), and ... ordered the year according to the course of the Sun; and yet this was imputed to him for novelty, and arrogance, and procured to him great obloguy. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm | 68% Size: 229K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | "Sunday keeping" DID NOT originate in the pagan religion of Mithraism ... Sunday is not of pagan origin! If it is then so is the Sabbath! Click to View When Sabbatarians quote books to prove Sunday originated with Sun worship and Mithraism, these same books also say that the Sabbath was of pagan origin from Babylon! Click to View The truth is, both the Sabbath and Christians worshipping of the first day (Sunday) are of divine origin. The Sabbath was abolished, not changed to Sunday! Actual Sabbatarian false argument: "Christians copied the "Sunday keeping" practices of the pagan religion of Mithraism": "Another influence in the early Christian Church was Mithraism- an ancient Oriental cult of the sun. This cult came to Rome in the first century A.D. and became popular in ... pagan origin: p129 Jesus the "slain Lamb of God" is of pagan origin: p131,132 "Washed in the Blood of the lamb" is of pagan origin: p132 Baptism and the Lord's Supper are both of pagan origin: p134, p146,147 Phrase "Soldiers of Christ" is of pagan origin: p135 Jesus as "the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-Mithraism.htm | 67% Size: 16K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Trinity proof texts: John 17:3 John 17:3 is to a Jehovah's Witness, what John 3:16 is to a Christian!) What John 17:3 is saying: While Jesus walked the earth, he took off the outward robes of deity ... Jesus is the corner stone in the church!: 1 Pet 2:6ff Conclusion: If we excluded Jesus Christ from the function of ROCK because of the language of Isa 44:8; Deut ... To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen. (incredibly, the official position of the Watchtower magazine, is that this verse applies solely to Jesus, not the ... Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments ... Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord [kurios], one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of ... Yet such language did not exclude the Father from also being our Lord The Father is referred to as Lord hundreds of times both in the Old and New Testaments. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john17-3.htm | 67% Size: 63K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote: Modernist and Christianity trasher! The Watchtower extracts an isolated quote in the midst of ... His unorthodox interpretations of biblical miracles including the Resurrection and this denial of Christ's institution of baptism. (see his History of Dogma, 7 vols. 1894-99) (New International dictionary of the Christian Church, J.D. Douglas, 1974, p 452) "Harnack started with ... As, church doctrine became "firmly rooted in the soil of Hellenism [pagan Greek thought]. Thereby it became a mystery to the great majority of Christians." ... "In reality it legitimized in its midst the Hellenic speculation, the superstitious views and customs of pagan mystery-worship." (Outlines of the History of Dogma, Adolf ... If this were to be done consistently, at least two-thirds of the new Testament wold have to be ruled out, for both Paul and John used a lot of Hellenistic concepts. Besides, it would rule ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Harnack.htm | 66% Size: 52K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | The Dugger-Porter Debate on Sunday as the Lord's Day Affirmative: A.N. Dugger Church of God (Seventh Day) Negative: W. Curtis Porter (Christian) Proposition #2: The Scriptures teach that the first day of the week as a day of worship is enjoined upon God's people in this age of the world. Affirmative: W. Curtis Porter (Christian) Negative: A.N. Dugger Church of God (Seventh Day) Note: This is a quality debate, over 40 years old, where both parties ... their question in verse 9, he declared: "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in a clear day." ... If fulfilling means to end the law, then when Jesus was baptized it means baptism and all righteousness is ended, for the exact expression is used. See Matt. 3, last verses. The Lord does not ... therefore like a drowning man you grasp at a straw to support this pagan institution christened by the Roman Catholic church, and forced upon the world to take the place of the ancient Sabbath . ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-debate-porter-dugger.htm | 66% Size: 525K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | Acapella Responsive Singing, No Instruments in first century ... Ancient Synagogue Worship and the Church Synagogue worship was the prototype for Christian Church. Introduction: 1. Synagogue worship at the time of Jesus' birth was acapella, antiphonal, responsive with no ... Col 3:16 and Eph 5:19 were letters to be read while in the assembly: "When this letter is read among you, have it also read ***in the church*** [while assembled] of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part read my letter that is coming from Laodicea." (Colossians 4:16). Also both are "one another" ... Instrumental music was one of the four main causes of the great schism: Instruments, Pope, Filioque, sprinkling for baptism. b. The Orthodox church to this day ... toward the Temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they worshipped the sun toward the east (Ez. 8:16). "But as to us, our eyes are to the Lord." ... In much stronger terms the Sibyl turns against the pagan type of music." (The Sacred Bridge: Liturgical Parallels in Synagogue and Early Church, Eric Werner, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Acapella-responsive-singing-non-instrumental-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-worship-prototype-ancient-Synagogue-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm | 66% Size: 265K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Abbott, Lyman: Dictionary of Religious Knowledge Example of selective quoting (Blue is Jw quote from booklet, Should you believe the Trinity?) "It is certain, however, that from the apostolic times they paid worship to ... Lyman Abbott, 1875, p. 944, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) What else did they fail to tell about Abbott's religious views? ... a Christian church to take the place of the decaying Jewish church has very little evidence to support it." ... "That he prescribed baptism and the Lord's Supper as permanent ordinances appears to me to rest on an equally slight foundation." ("What Christianity Means to me, A spiritual autobiography by Lyman Abbott, about himself, 1922, p20,21) "Christianity converted paganism, but paganism changed Christianity." ... "Christian thought could not affect pagan thought ... So I might say to the seeds in my garden bed, You can never come into the kingdom of light and life and beauty until you are born from above, and all the while God's sun, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Abbott.htm | 65% Size: 11K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans! as a whole, including both Trinitarians and Anti-Trinitarians! 9. Pagan, Platonic & Greek influence on JW's and Christadelphians Theology. Click to View Reputable scholars, secular encyclopedias and Trinitarians never say trinity is of pagan origin and openly deny such. First, it is important to note that the doctrine of the Trinity does not go back to non-Christian sources [pagan], as has sometimes been supposed in the ... deception] It is another question, of course, whether or not the church, in developing the doctrine of the Trinity, had recourse to certain ... In 3000 AD, it would be just as ridiculous to dig up Watchtower Magazines from this century and conclude JW's (should they survive past 2014 ... of the Trinity, and to account for it by an imaginary law of nature compelling men to group the objects of their worship in threes. ... ... "Washed in the Blood of the lamb" is of pagan origin: p132 Baptism and the Lord's Supper are both of pagan origin: p134, p146,147 ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan.htm | 65% Size: 124K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | SUMMARY: PROOF that TRINITY is NOT of PAGAN origin! "The fact that the church fathers never defend trinity against a charge of pagan influence is significant. If the source was so obviously ... doctrine is of pagan origin!) The problem is that these same sources ALSO claim that Christians borrowed most of Jesus' teachings, virgin birth, the name "Mary" for Jesus' mother, communion, Noaic Flood story, creation story from the pagans! Such selective quoting is both dishonest and unscholarly! The fact is, these authorities are flat wrong when the maintain most aspects of Christian faith originated with the Pagans! ... What about the "Quinity" god of the four winds! Or the "Twinity" god of Sun and Moon! Or the "twelve in one" god of the constellations that ... demons are involved in the origin of false doctrine and worship. "That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ... Click to View Where is it found? "Should you believe the Trinity?", Watchtower publication pictured left. In fact this quote is one of the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-not-pagan-reasons.htm | 65% Size: 90K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | Comparison list of 14 Moses/Constantine the Great Shadows, Types ... Constantine the Great 1. Both raised by Sun-worshipping fathers and believing mothers Pharaoh a Sun worshipper, mother was Hebrew Constantius was a Sun worshipper and Helena was a Christian 2. Both received the top education the world had to offer Egypt Rome: Eusebius Life Const. 1.19 3. Both were handsome and ... Constantine facilitated the Nicene council which defined Jesus as uncreated God as opposed to a creature. 12. Both were among the most righteous and morally pure leaders in history Humble, pure, faithful Constantine was a great restorer among a pagan population like Josiah. 13. Both established the first physical places for worship First Tabernacle First Church buildings in Jerusalem, Mt. of ... For example, every Christ himself is a type of every Christian because we must take up our cross and follow Christ "daily" (Mt 16:26) and we must be crucified, buried and raised again through water baptism to be saved: Mk 16:16; Rom 6:1-7. f. While individual Christians today may ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Messianic-prophecy-Moses-Constantine-the-Great-Jesus-Christ-types-shadows-antitypes-similarities-comparisons-1446BC-AD313.htm | 65% Size: 61K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | The Decepto-Meter goes crazy when you bring it near the Watchtower ... ... Trinitarian misleads the reader to a conclusion opposite to what source is saying Click to View Chadwick, Henry The Early Church Deceptive quote & False Dilemma Trinitarian fails to ... into the church. A careful reading of the quote shows that is not what the author is saying! Henderson and Buck Theological Dictionary Deceptive Quote & False Dilemma Trinitarian Although Henderson correctly says that the "Nicene concept of Trinity" is not in the Bible, he would say that early Christians and the scriptures clearly taught that Jesus was both ... and has no scriptural basis. Second, the Watchtower, through a series of deceptive quotes, irresponsibly portrays Constantine as a faithless sun-god pagan idol worshipper with no understanding of Christianity who single-handedly introduces trinity to Christianity from the pagans and is almost the author of the Nicene creed. Click to View Lohse, Bernard A Short History of Christian Doctrine Satanic Quote Trinitarian The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-anti-trinity-booklet-decepto-meter.htm | 64% Size: 43K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Synagogue prototype master summary chart and introduction: The ... Priest in Hebrew which no one understood because the masses spoke Aramaic and Greek. Any Jew in Greek which all understood Any Christian in Greek which all understood Language of Scripture Hebrew Greek Septuagint Greek Septuagint Physical worship Most ... Names temple [hieron] house of prayer [proseuche], Synagogue [synagōgē], Church [ekklesia], Temple, House Synagogue [synagōgē], Church [ekklesia], Temple, House Water of purification (Mode) Brass Laver (Sprinkling) Mikveh (immersion) Baptism (immersion) Water of purification (purpose) ... Both Rabbinic Judaism and Catholicism have huge volumes of the exact type of man-made rules that Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth condemned. b. The modern ... Talmudic writings over the Tanakh the same way that Jehovah's witnesses priorize their Watchtower and Awake magazines over the New Testament. ... The environment ... [within which] Christianity [began] in the hellenistic world was ... [a non-Christian environment] of pagan worship conducted in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Worship-Introduction-master-Summary-chart-Synagogue-First-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-patterned-copied-ancient-prototype-ritual-liturgy.htm | 64% Size: 120K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries I. THE DOGMA of the Trinity-The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion-the truth that in the unity of the ... The writers of this school contend that the doctrine of the Trinity, as professed by the Church, is not contained in the New Testament, but that it was ... "Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of baptism, the Lord's supper." "Nowhere in the Bible do we find any indication of the Watchtower organization" or that Christians called themselves "Jehovah's ... Attempts have been made recently to apply the more extreme theories of comparative religion [pagan similarities] to the doctrine of the Trinity, and to account for it by an imaginary law of nature compelling men to group the objects of their worship in threes. ... It seems needless to give more ... word of God, the Biblical message speaking for itself, should be the heart and substance of the communication both in preaching and in catechesis. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm | 64% Size: 126K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ... Both groups promote and believe things that are not found in the Bible. Both are "salvation by organization" religions whose leaders have exclusive direct channels to God. Jehovah's Witnesses have a "new light" or "brighter light" theology where God reveals through the Watchtower new things never ... We do not defend the developed Nicene concept of the trinity. The necessity to formulate the doctrine was thrust upon the Church by forces from without, and ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of baptism into the ... At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian in the a strictly ontological reference. It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected ... First, it is important to note that the doctrine of the Trinity does not go back to non-Christian sources [pagan], as has sometimes been supposed in the past. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-development.htm | 64% Size: 17K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Four positions on the day of Christian worship ... When they began to teach this, theologians were sent to persuade them to abandon what they called the "Jewish Sabbath." Both of them suffered a martyr death, largely ... God, through the Seventh-day Adventist church, restore in any measurable way, by direct revelation, the truth that the day Christians worship was Saturday. Adventists openly teach that early Christians borrowed Sunday as the day of worship from the pagan religion of Mithraism in about 140 AD. Gradually Sunday replaced the Sabbath day (Saturday) so that today the worship on Sunday is an almost universal Christian practice of apostasy and totally contrary to the will of God. "Sunday ... But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of Paganism, and christened with the name of the sun-god, then adopted and sanctified by the Papal apostasy, and ... John Wesley, A.M., John Emory, ed., New York: Eaton & Mains, Sermon 25,vol. 1, p. 221) "It is true there is no positive command for infant baptism . . . . Nor is ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-4-positions.htm | 64% Size: 54K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | Origin of Jewish/Christian holy days: Old Testament, Christmas ... ... ASCENSION DAY: Thursday, 40 days after Easter: Lord's ascension g. WHITSUNDAY or PENTECOST: Sunday, 50 days after Easter: birthday of church h. TRINITY SUNDAY: Sunday ... He felt this would turn the pagan feast into a "Christian" feast 4. In the year AD 274, when the winter solstice fell on December 25, the pagan Roman emperor Aurelian proclaimed December 25 as Natalis Solis Invicti, the festival of the birth of the invincible sun. In AD 354, Philocalus wrote a Christian martyrology that ... years and that both events occurred on Mar. 25. By calculating nine months from the annunciation or conception he arrived at Dec. 25 as the day Of Christ 's birth. ... Jan. 6 was earlier fixed upon as the date of the baptism or spiritual birth of Christ; and the feast of Epiphany (q.v.) was celebrated by the Basilidian Gnostics in ... Paul identified this as a liberty, a practice that is allowed but not required (1 Corinthians 8:8-9). But this did not mean they could engage in idolatrous worship (1 ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/t-holy-days-origin-christmas-easter-halloween.htm | 63% Size: 34K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers Paulk, Earl: Chapel Hill Harvester Church Pensacola Blessing Popoff, Peter Price, Fred Crenshaw Christian Center Promise Keepers Rex Humbard ... We believe in the existence of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity and in His interaction with man. We believe in the baptism ... Home Ministry Our Church is divided into small groups that meet in individual homes throughout the week for ministry and fellowship. We believe that maximum spiritual growth and development come through membership in these groups. Prayer and Praise We believe in the worship of the ... After Prime Time, attendance at both Grant's revival rallies and his Eagle's Nest Family Church in southwest Dallas plummeted. The Dawn of a ... Montanus, Montanism Montanism was a second century heresy started by Montanus a former pagan priest. See detailed documents on Montanus He ... Adam was a super being, He was the first superman that lived. Adam had dominion over the sun, moon & stars. Christians do not have Christ in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-encyclopedia-pentecostal-preachers.htm | 63% Size: 247K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | Ancient Synagogue Literary Sources: Titus Flavius Josephus (Joseph ... ... B. SUMMARY LIST of Synagogue worship, function and architecture in Josephus: Jump to detailed Josephus quotes of Synagogue worship at the time of Jesus 1. Asylum ... Josephus, Antiquities 14.256-258: decree: c. 30 BC 4. Mikveh: Pool of Siloam: 3000 souls added to church in Baptism here! Acts 2:41 a. Josephus Wars of the Jews ... Josephus Antiquities 16.167-168 8. No pot lucks or common meals in the synagogue: Sacred Mazzot Passover meals only, "Social gospel" forbidden: a. Same in Christian Church: ... And I charge both parties to take very great care that no troubles may arise after the promulgation of this edict." (Josephus, Antiquities 19.281-285) b. Sardis 49 ... them in the [season of the] sun, because of the sun, or in the [season of the] rain, because of rain; and one may not conduct mourning in them for an individual. ... After Caligula, attempted to put a pagan statue in the Jerusalem Temple in 40-41 BC, Claudius issued a decree granting equal rights to the Jews as Roman citizens ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Ancient-Synagogue-Archeological-Literary-Sources-Bible-Jesus-Israel-Judea-diaspora-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Joseph-ben-Matthias-Titus-Flavius-Josephus-70ad.htm | 63% Size: 313K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Nimrod and the Archaeology of the Tower of Babel by Steven Rudd ... ... to the invention of writing in 2850 BC. 121 9. Nimrod and Enmerkar both built the First shrines at Eridu (Babel) and Eruk. 122 V. Mount Ararat ... A. HATING A GOD WHO JUDGES: Global Flood and Eternal Hell-Fire. 147 B. NIMROD IN EASTER: Nimrod's pagan fertility goddess Inana and Easter: 153 ... It also defines new standard archaeological ages in keeping with young earth creation. Although it is written for the average Christian, it is invaluable to professional archeologists. The high-quality graphics are intended to be used by church preachers ... of the underworld and Mars 11. Ninurta: god of Saturn 12. Shamash/Utu: Sun god Places: 1. Accad: Unknown southern city founded by Nimrod in 3200 BC ... who fabricated a new complex pantheon of pagan gods to worship like the supreme Anu who decreed the flood and his children Enlil, Enki and Inana. ... Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly" (Justin Martyr, Apology 67, 140 AD) 6. Water Baptism by full immersion is Christian's ... ... https://www.bible.ca/nimrod/welcome.htm | 63% Size: 1.4M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | Official creed of the Shakers: Compendium (1859) Mother Ann Lee ... she was known to possess supernatural powers; or that the Shakers think her to be something more than human - equal to Christ; or that they worship her, etc., etc. ... written by inspiration; as was also that of the lengthening of the day when the " sun stood still upon the mount Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of Ajalon." ... ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. 1. SHAKERISM is claimed, by its advocates, to be the ultimate, or second Christian church - the Millennium. 2. The inquiry naturally arises, What ... Speaking of these, Philo says: "In many parts of the earth, such a people exist; for it is fitting that both Greek and Barbarian share in the absolute good." Pliny ... the case with Peter and others. 21. The penal law was added because of transgression; the typical law, of baptism, circumcision, etc., to foreshadow things to come. ... not only against external enemies of the church and state, but as a means of conversion to Roman Catholic Christianity, and also turning the same sword against the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-shakers.htm | 63% Size: 203K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Trinity proof texts: John 1:1 Just as "man" can refer specifically to male to the exclusion of female, So also God can refer to the Father to the exclusion of the Son. However, just as "man" can include both male and female as a ... Pentecostal church International, UPCI), for they like we, do define God identically in its two occurrences in John 1:1. However, they define God as a personal proper noun/name for the same person, thus they want to read into the passage that Jesus is the same person as the Father. This does incredible damage to the distinction of God, so vividly seen in many passages like the baptism of Jesus. ... Several of these Greek authorities have written formal repudiations of how the Watchtower deceptively misquotes them. What reputable scholars say about the New World Translation of John 1:1: Barclay: ... There is no syntactical parallel to Acts 28:6 where there is a statement in indirect discourse; John 1:1 is direct....I am neither a Christian nor a Trinitarian." Kaufman: Dr. Paul L. Kaufman of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john1-1.htm | 63% Size: 76K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Trinity proof texts: John 8:58 ... Again He says, "I am the truth; " and surely none of us is so simple as to suppose that truth did not exist before the time when Christ appeared. We worship, therefore, the Father of truth, and ... I will gird you, though you have not known Me; That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, The One forming ... Several very knowledge JWs in Southern California have admitted privately to Robert Bowman and others that both the Watchtower and Nelson Herle were wrong on in claiming John 8:58 was a "historical present." ... Jehovah's Witnesses habitually quote faithless men like this to trash the trinity. ("The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, quoted in ... of the name "Yahweh" and the expression EHYEH ASHER EHYEH, it would seem that the Old Testament itself laid the foundation for the eventual obsolescence of the name "Yahweh" in Christian piety. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john8-58.htm | 63% Size: 210K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Why I left the Roman Catholic church! (personal testimony) of some evil that I had done or that was done to me. I left the Catholic Church because I came to believe that it was contrary to the Bible. ... They won't allow their members to hear both sides of an issue, and especially they don't want them to examine opposing arguments. Hopefully, ... The book, "The Faith of Millions" was given to me before my conversion by my older brother Norman who was at the time a student at St. Meinrad ... The Faith of Millions, on pages 153-154 says, "The Bible does not contain all the teaching of the Christian religion, nor does it formulate ... all its members profess the same faith, have the same worship and Sacraments, and are united under the one and same visible head, the Pope." ... beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection." ... Out Of Paganism Grew The Papacy The empire of pagan Rome, like unto a cruel beast, truly wore the name of blasphemy. It was called the Holy ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-why-I-left.htm | 63% Size: 114K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | Ancient Synagogue Literary Sources: Jews persecuting Christians ... ... D. After conversion, Apostle Paul was beaten and stoned by the Jews in 40 AD: 1. "Are they [Jews] Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they ... Father is.'6 For we see that the Almighty God is kind and merciful, causing His sun to rise on the unthankful and on the righteous, and sending rain on the holy and ... Theophanes the Confessor was an historical who wrote a yearly chronicle and diary of world events in the Byzantine empire including both the Persian (614 AD) and ... Advocating the early Christian tradition of using religious art to ornament worship, Theophanes, at the second general Council of Nicaea (787), argued for its continued practice in the Eastern Church. He ridiculed Iconoclastic Byzantine emperors. After being imprisoned in Constantinople (814-815) by Emperor Leo V, he was banished to ... Be immersed in a Mikveh (baptism) one last time to achieve eternal ritual purity that never needs to be redone, except through repentance to Christ for any future ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Ancient-Synagogue-Archeological-Literary-Sources-Bible-Jesus-Israel-Judea-diaspora-first-century-oldest-pre70A-Justin-Martyr-patristic-apostolic-church-father-150ad.htm | 62% Size: 138K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Messianic Sermon Topics In Synagogues: How Christians used the ... ... teaching." (1 Timothy 4:13) 2. When the Jewish converts began to worship as Christians, they continued with their synagogue tradition and ... exactly what kind of sermons topics you would expect to find in a Christian church: a. "Accordingly, on the seventh day there are spread ... to prove Jesus was the Christ. 8. Sermons in the first century church would follow this identical pattern of historical survey, except ... DREAM DREAMS; EVEN ON MY BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT And they shall prophesy. 'AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE. 'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE ... the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. ... for ... preaching style the Jews used in their synagogues before their conversion to faith in Jesus as the risen Messiah, would continue after they ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Sermon-Topics-ancient-Synagogue-Messianic-prophecy-Rabbinical-approach-how-to-convert-a-Jew-first-century-church-New-Testament-prototype-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm | 62% Size: 94K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | Textual Variants Daniel's 70 weeks, Susanna, Prayer of Hananiah ... The alternate text of Daniel 9:24-27 of the messianic prophecy of the 70 weeks. 3. These additions, however, were read by the early church and included in the first ... But since, as already shown above, Theodotion-Daniel was produced in Asia Minor or Palestine (or possibly Syria-Mesopotamia) in pre-Christian times, and since both the LXX and ... time it takes the earth to orbit the Sun. d. Today we use the Julian Calendar which requires leap years to keep it is in sync with God's solar calendar. The 490 years of Daniel's 70 weeks is exactly 490 solar years to the very day. 3. Hebrew, Julian, Gregorian conversion equivalents: Daniel 9 computes 490 ... In this interpretation, sacrifice does stop at the exact middle of the last week corresponding to the Baptism of Jesus. "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls ... But Daniel prayed to the Lord. And the king said to Daniel, "Why do you not worship Bel?" And Daniel replied to the king, "I worship no one except the Lord God, who ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Daniel-Bible-Textual-Variants-Old-Testament-Tanakh-70-weeks-Daniel9.24-Messiah-490-years-458BC-33AD-resurrection-Codex-Vaticanus-Susanna-Prayer-Hananiah-Bel-dragon.htm | 62% Size: 163K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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