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Clear searchTesting Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…eresting characteristic of the book? The distinction is elementary but essential. Perfect preservation does not prove inspiration. Literary beauty does not prove historical accuracy. A successful prediction does not automatically authenticate every theological statement made by t…
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…s also evidence that those changes did not successfully replace every other reading. What preservation does—and does not—require Scripture says: "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." —Isaiah 40:8 God's preservation of His word doe…
Read article →What Christ’s promise establishes—and what claims about infallible teaching still need to prove
…rity to fulfil His promise? This argument introduces a further premise: that the Church’s preservation requires the particular form of teaching protection being proposed. That premise needs to be demonstrated. It is not simply another way of repeating Jesus’ words. Christ’s prese…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…, His mercy, and His faithfulness. God's judgement proves that His warnings are true. His preservation of a remnant proves that rejection is not total. His future restoration of Israel will prove that rejection was never final. He remains faithful, and He will perform the good th…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…ly stresses the refusal of praise to idols. Its exposition of Isaiah 48:10–11 relates the preservation of Israel to the vindication of Jehovah’s name and saving power. Those contextual observations are sound.[^31] They also show why appealing to Isaiah against any glory bestowed…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…ifferent kind of promise addressed exclusively to the Church. Galatians itself emphasises preservation rather than cancellation: "The covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…ael must neither be severed absolutely nor identified simplistically. The Jewish people's preservation and return to the ancestral land are historically remarkable and may properly be considered in light of prophecy. But no government receives moral immunity from Scripture. Let m…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…us and Victorinus can sound like forms of midtribulational deliverance. Others emphasised preservation, heavenly ascent, or escape. Later amillennialism reorganised the field substantially. This diversity limits every appeal. Pretribulationists cannot claim an early consensus for…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…o distinguish persecution from His wrath, His children from the objects of judgement, and preservation through trial from removal before it. Pretribulationism should never promise Christians that they will avoid the hatred of the world. It claims that the Church is not appointed…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…one of David." —Isaiah 9:6–7 Isaiah's prophecy moves from an eighth-century threat to the preservation of David's house and the final rule of David's greater Son. The historical sign is real, but it belongs to a larger messianic movement. This is why “double fulfilment” can be he…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…n of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son, and a restored relationship with God. A strong supersessionist response does not simply deny those passages. It argues that…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…persessionist: Jewish unbelief and dispersion served the Church's apologetic purpose. Yet preservation placed a restraint upon exterminating logic. The Jews were not to disappear, because their continued existence functioned within providence. Augustine also expected a future Jew…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…, to try them that dwell upon the earth." —Revelation 3:10 Christ does not merely promise preservation from one harmful event. He promises to keep the faithful from an hour which comes upon the whole inhabited world for the testing of earth-dwellers. The object of deliverance is…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…ed historical order. The Qur’an arrives six centuries later and denies the central event. Preservation of the word “Messiah” cannot compensate for removal of the history which explains it. But does Islam formally accept Daniel? Daniel is not named in the Qur’an. It is therefore i…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…gardening techniques, soil, water, seasonal cultivation, local crafts, and the making and preservation of ordinary things. The impression is not chiefly of a political campaign. It is of habits formed through patience, responsibility, and respect for what has been received. The s…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…rth, and the spiritual renewal still to come Israel's history contains both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly persecuted. Yet they did not disappear into the nations among which th…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…s of corruptions, while every form of Qur’anic textual plurality is classified as perfect preservation, he has been taught two standards rather than one. Many of these young men had not been persuaded out of Christianity as it actually exists. They had been persuaded out of a car…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…sm is not the same as reversal. Twelve consistently recalls Israel's tribes. The repeated preservation of their names weighs against the claim that the tribal identity has no future significance once the Church is formed. Nor does our inability to trace every Israelite genealogy…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…l's final crisis and repentance, the witness and martyrdom of Tribulation saints, and the preservation of mortal believers who enter the kingdom. Those events do not independently prove that the interval is Daniel's final week. Daniel supplies its prophetic framework. They show w…
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