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Clear searchEitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…istians often answer without sufficient knowledge of their Jewish setting. His command of Hebrew, familiarity with Israeli life, and experience discussing Yeshua with Jewish people bring valuable context to questions about messianic prophecy, the New Testament, and rabbinic inter…
View recommendation →Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…ent: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” — Hebrews 11:1, KJV There is something profound here. Things still hoped for have a present substance. Things still unseen carry conviction. Faith enables a person to live now in the assurance…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…n high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens” (Hebrews 8:1). The evidence has been heard. We have examined what Christians mean when they say that God is one. We have followed Jesus through the Gospels and asked whether He can be contain…
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 →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…ing for a divine occupant. Primary passages: Matthew 26:38–39; Luke 2:40, 52; Luke 22:42; Hebrews 2:14–18; Hebrews 5:7–9; Hebrews 10:5–10 --- “A body hast thou prepared me.” Those words from Hebrews 10:5 may be among the first that come to mind when we ask how the Son became man.…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…raw what it once supplied. Christ promises: "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." —Hebrews 13:5 Not as the world gives, gives He unto us. Peace does not mean a life without trouble Later that same evening Jesus told His disciples: "In the world ye shall have tribulation: b…
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 →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…here is no God; I know not any.” — Isaiah 44:8 The second “God” in the KJV represents the Hebrew ṣûr, “Rock”: the image of a dependable divine refuge. The point is not that YHWH has conducted an incomplete search. It is that there is no other Rock for Israel to discover.[^2] Nor…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ave believers without an authority. Scripture does not ask us to believe every spirit The Bible is not embarrassed by spiritual reality. It teaches that human beings survive bodily death, that angels exist, that spiritual evil is real, and that God has sometimes given visions. Ye…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…freedom from dependence upon circumstances. (See Note 2.) Then the shortest verse in the Bible quietly overturned the table: “Jesus wept.” — John 11:35 Christ’s tears were not a failure of reason. His grief was neither sinful nor disordered. Perfect humanity did not require emot…
Read article →A quiet invitation to draw near to Christ
…become comfortable with delay. We mean to pray when things settle down. We will open the Bible when we feel less tired. We know there is something to confess, but we leave it for another day. The One we love receives what is left of our attention. This is not a reason to interpr…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…e all, tested against Scripture. At its centre, dispensationalism 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.…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…: John 1:1–3, 14; Luke 2:40, 52; Matthew 26:38–39; Colossians 1:15–17; Philippians 2:5–8; Hebrews 1:1–3; 2:14–18 --- The incarnation is often explained through pictures. God put on humanity as we put on a garment. God entered a body as a driver enters a vehicle. God filled a huma…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…Primary passages: John 1:1–3; John 5:17–23; John 8:54–59; John 17:5; Colossians 1:15–17; Hebrews 1:1–12; Isaiah 44:6, 24 --- In the previous study, we considered Ambrose’s wonderfully direct answer to those who claimed that the Son had once not existed. John did not write, “In t…
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 →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…prayed and was tempted. “In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren” (Hebrews 2:17), yet always “without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). His deity remained complete: “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). His humanity was also complete.…
Read article →Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
…structive judgement provides that justification. Bullinger, Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, “Idioma”. An explanation shared by Jewish and Christian interpreters This understanding is not a recent apologetic invention. Rashi, following Targum Jonathan, understands verse 25 as…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." —Galatians 3:16 The Hebrew and Greek words translated seed can function as collective nouns, referring to many descendants while remaining grammatically singular. Paul plainly knows this because he will call th…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…al invented to make a prophetic chart work. That criticism begins at the wrong end of the Bible. The case does not start by counting backwards from Revelation. It starts with a measured programme in Daniel concerning Israel and Jerusalem. Jesus takes Daniel's abomination of desol…
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 →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ul Christian seeks an increasingly mature understanding of that publicly revealed gospel. Hebrews rebukes believers who still need milk. Paul speaks wisdom among the mature. The Lord opened the disciples' understanding of the Scriptures. None of this creates a spiritual species w…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…eing who eternally exists as three distinct Persons. Christianity begins with one God The Bible's starting point is uncompromising monotheism: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD." —Deuteronomy 6:4 God says through Isaiah, “I am the LORD, and there is none else, there i…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…Daniel is not named in the Qur’an. No surviving Dead Sea Scroll contains Daniel 9:26. The Hebrew word translated “Messiah” can describe more than one kind of anointed person, and responsible Jewish interpreters have proposed alternatives to Jesus. Those qualifications matter. The…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. (Habakkuk 2:17) The Hebrew wording of part of the verse is difficult, and translations differ over whether it is the destruction or plunder of beasts which causes terror. The central judgement is nevertheless p…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…be counted for a forest.” — Isaiah 32:15 “Until” marks a boundary to the devastation. The Hebrew ʿad, “until,” does not supply a date or specify the length of the intervening period. It does identify the event that changes the situation: the outpouring from above. Recovery depend…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ary. A people dispersed for centuries retained a national and religious identity, revived Hebrew as a language of daily public life, returned from numerous countries, and re-established sovereignty in the land from which its ancestors had been exiled. The careful claim is not tha…
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