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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 messenger, the Prophet who can neither rea…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
Secret Rapture—or Biblical Distinction? Why a loaded label does not settle the question “The secret rapture is unbiblical.” The phrase is repeated so often that it can sound like an argument. It is not. Pretr…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…m is a way of reading the Bible that gives sustained weight to grammatical and historical context, progressive revelation, the distinct identities named in the text, and the unconditional promises God made to Israel. It affirms one way of salvation by grace through faith, centred…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…solves the issue. It is the more usual word for virgin, but Hebrew usage still depends on context. Joel 1:8, for example, speaks of a betulah mourning for “the husband of her youth,” a phrase whose interpretation is debated. Lexical choices are not algebraic codes. The careful co…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…o avoid Jesus. He is a historically recognisable candidate arising from the Second Temple context. The question is whether he exhausts the prophecy. Antiochus desecrated and plundered the Temple, but the sanctuary survived and was rededicated. Daniel 9:26 describes the city and s…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…century polemicist Ibn Hazm becoming an especially forceful defender of corruption in the biblical text itself. Earlier Muslim views were not uniform. We should neither pretend that textual corruption was wholly invented by Ibn Hazm nor read the most developed later theory automa…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…ich God never placed in the text. Why does Paul say every promise is "yea"? The immediate context is not a debate about Israel and the Church. Paul is defending his integrity after changing his travel plans. Some in Corinth apparently accused him of vacillation, as though his int…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…why should anyone place the rapture before it? The objection deserves an answer from the context, not the slogan that Matthew concerns Jews while Paul concerns Christians. The contextual differences must be demonstrated, and the similarities must not be denied. The Olivet Discou…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…e circumcised in the flesh while remaining uncircumcised in heart (Jeremiah 9:25-26). The biblical contrast therefore existed within Israel long before the Church. A person could bear Abraham's physical sign and remain inwardly rebellious. The answer was not to deny that he was e…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…t the Church appears detached from Israel's Scriptures, Messiah, covenants, and hope. The biblical answer requires both unity and distinction, each defined by the texts which teach it. The Church is one new man in Christ Gentiles were once "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…to the warrior descent of Revelation 19. Those questions must be answered from the wider context of prophecy. This limitation cuts both ways. The passage alone does not prove a seven-year heavenly interval. It also does not narrate an immediate return to the earth. Any interpret…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…s quoted as though Tertullian himself taught the recovery of the Jewish homeland. Read in context, it establishes the opposite. Tertullian is answering Marcion's claim that the Creator's Christ promised the Jews restoration to their country. After voicing that position, Tertullia…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…th, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ." —1 Thessalonians 5:9 The immediate context concerns the Day of the Lord arriving as a thief upon those who say "Peace and safety". Believers are children of light who should remain awake and sober. Paul does not merely promis…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…e Gentiles, and the Church. That question matters because it touches three foundations of biblical faith: how we read Scripture, how we understand the character of God, and how we relate to the Jewish people. The words of a promise matter God called Abram from his country and pro…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…tance. These truths are not concessions made reluctantly. They are essential parts of the biblical case. But they do not answer the decisive question: does fulfilment in Christ confirm the promises God made, or permit their stated recipients and particulars to be permanently exch…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ratives The Qur’an did not emerge in a cultural vacuum. It appeared in a world alive with biblical names, Jewish interpretation, Christian preaching, sectarian disagreement, devotional legend and stories carried across languages by travellers, merchants, clergy and ordinary belie…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…al fiction, not the Jesus presented across the Gospels. If he leaves because thousands of biblical manuscripts have been presented as thousands of corruptions, while every form of Qur’anic textual plurality is classified as perfect preservation, he has been taught two standards r…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…scourse is rooted in the land and institutions of Israel. Clue two: "elect" already has a biblical history The word "elect" does not arrive in Matthew without a history. In the Greek Old Testament and the KJV's rendering of Israel's Scriptures, election language can refer to the…
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