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19 results for “Bible corruption”
Clear searchHow an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
Can We Trust the Bible? How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination Christians sometimes hear a sweeping objection: the Bible may once have contained God's word,…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…en corrupted or misunderstood. That is a more serious position than merely shouting, "The Bible was changed." It recognises genuine Qur'anic texts and a real distinction between the Christian New Testament and the Islamic concept of a revelation given to Jesus. But it creates a h…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
Was Muhammad Foretold in the Bible? Four popular claims tested in context The Qur'an says that the coming of Muhammad was written in the Torah and the Gospel possessed by Jews and Christians: "Those who follow the messe…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…fixion, divine justice, forgiveness and assurance. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant line through Isaac, Daniel’s cut-off Messiah and the Qur’an’s relationship to the…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…d into deity. Paganism defeated biblical Christianity. The emperor chose the books of the Bible. Reincarnation was removed. Sunday worship was imposed. The bishops settled everything by imperial command—and perhaps discussed rosary beads or beards while they were there. These sto…
Read article →Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
…gh which to understand Ezekiel. God’s permission is judicial: He gives people over to the corruption they have chosen. He remains the judge, while their practices remain evil. E. W. Bullinger discusses this under a biblical idiom in which active language can describe permission.…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…ames in the Pentateuch betrayed different sources and an earlier history lying behind the Bible’s finished account. What was new was hearing the subject return through my son, not as an old forum argument but as something apparently too well established to require much defence. I…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…shared our sin. Hebrews expressly says that He was “without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Sin is a corruption of humanity, not an ingredient necessary to it. Jesus was not less human because He was holy; He was human life as it ought to be. The point is that He shared the human nature of…
Read article →What Christ’s promise establishes—and what claims about infallible teaching still need to prove
…— Isaiah 38:10 Here, gates belong to the imagery of entering the realm of death. The NET Bible’s note on Matthew 16:18 likewise recognises “the power of death” as a possible rendering of the expression.² This gives substantial grounds for understanding Jesus’ promise as an assur…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…the event is present One common objection says that the word rapture never appears in the Bible. The observation is true but proves nothing. The word Trinity does not appear in the text either; the doctrine is named from the biblical facts it organises. Paul says that living beli…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…religious solutions can recur independently when Christians confront evil, institutional corruption, the authority of Scripture, or the apparent conflict between spirit and flesh. The Waldensians are a useful contrast. The movement associated with Valdes began in the late twelft…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…evidence for divine revelation Christians are frequently placed on the defensive. Has the Bible been corrupted? Did Jesus really claim to be God? Was He actually crucified? Has the doctrine of the Trinity compromised monotheism? Those questions deserve answers, and the preceding…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…n the brothers. God blessed both. The second and third questions do require a choice. The Bible answers both explicitly: Isaac. The Qur'an honours both Isaac and Ishmael, but its sacrifice narrative does not name the son. Ishmael's identity must be inferred from the sequence and…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…A revelation delivered within history will naturally speak to people within history. The Bible itself uses human languages, recognisable literary forms and real historical settings. The question is more particular. Why do several distinctive Qur’anic narratives resemble post-bib…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ferences of the individual. I do not dream of Christianity as a solitary intellect with a Bible and no obligations to anyone else. The tragedy is not that I want nothing to do with the historic Church. The tragedy is that I could stand at her door, confessing my love for Jesus Ch…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…hecy after the crucifixion and insert it seamlessly into an otherwise unsuspecting Jewish Bible. The prophecy was already there. The disagreement concerns its interpretation, not a Christian invention of the passage. How did Jews read it before Christianity? No surviving pre-Chri…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…her passage is reducible to modern environmental categories. Both concern the much larger corruption produced by human rebellion. Yet neither permits us to separate man's wickedness from the ruin inflicted upon the world he inhabits. The law of restrained dominion The law of Mose…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…translation. Among them, Allah does not love or like: transgressors (Surahs 2:190; 5:87); corruption and those who spread it (2:205; 5:64; 28:77); every persistent unbelieving sinner and the disbelievers (2:276; 3:32); wrongdoers (3:57; 3:140); the arrogant and boastful (4:36; 31…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…et concern about one grave issue must not become permission to excuse every other kind of corruption, cruelty, dishonesty or incompetence. Biblical judgement is more serious than counting how many boxes each party ticks. We must ask what kind of issue is before us, how grave and…
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