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Paul Says That Mark Is Futile : No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel

But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel accord­ing to Mark, appar­ent­ly did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very impor­tant point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were ini­tial­ly divorced from each oth­er and were writ­ten in dif­fer­ent local­i­ties for dif­fer­ent audiences.

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Ignored Teach­ings in the New Testament ?

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi While there are so many Old Tes­ta­ment laws which are ignored by Chris­tians, here are a num­ber of New Tes­ta­ment writings…

Bible Com­men­tary on John 10:36

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In John 10:36, we read the fol­low­ing words of Jesus : Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanc­ti­fied, and sent into…

Obser­va­tion of Answer­ing Islam’s Response to​“I AM WHATAM : A Bible Commentary”

Tera Tak Adamar & Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi The mis­sion­ary Sam Shamoun under the ban­ner of the infa­mous mis­sion­ary web­site, Answer­ing Islam, have claimed in…

John 8 and the Birth of Jesus

Fol­low­ing are some obser­va­tions on the curi­ous account of the birth of Jesus which a care­ful study of the Gospels reveal : In John 8:31 ff.,…

Luke 6:1 : Its Cor­rupt­ed & Actu­al Understanding

Asif Iqbal That the text of the New Tes­ta­ment, as we have it today, is loaded with tex­tu­al cor­rup­tions and mis­read­ings is an acknowl­edged fact…

Vain Rep­e­ti­tions” in Prayer ? Exe­ge­sis on Matthew 6:7

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi A Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary wrote that : Jesus said : And when you pray, do not use vain rep­e­ti­tions as the hea­then do. For they…

Ezekiel 23 And Its Dis­gust­ing Language

Does the Bible use lan­guage not fit­ting for God?” This was the ques­tion that a mis­sion­ary rhetor­i­cal­ly posed to his read­ers in an amus­ing but…

Sto­ry of Cre­ation in the Qur’an and Old Testament

The sto­ry of Cre­ation is locat­ed in the first Book of the Old Tes­ta­ment, i.e. in the ear­ly chap­ters of Gen­e­sis. The Old Testament…

Bible Com­men­tary on I Kings 8:27

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In I Kings 8:27, we read that : But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heav­en and heav­en of heavens…

The Inva­lid­i­ty of the Cru­ci­fix­ion of Jesus as an Atone­ment of Sin

Here is a par­tial list of rea­sons for why the death of Jesus on the cross could­n’t pos­si­bly have served as a valid sac­ri­fice — any one of these would ren­der a sac­ri­fice as unac­cept­able for the pur­pose of expi­a­tion of sins. Giv­en that, at the time of Jesus’ death, the Sec­ond Tem­ple was still stand­ing in Jerusalem and the Hebrew Bible was the Scrip­ture in force, here are some of the rea­sons why the death of Jesus on the cross can­not be a valid sac­ri­fi­cial offering.

I AM What I AM”: A Bible Commentary

We will put our expla­na­tion regard­ing the main issue (I AM) in steps so that it shall be eas­i­ly fol­lowed by those unfa­mil­iar with issues involved. The focus of the paper is to exam­ine whether the use of the word I am” in John 8:58 has some­thing to do with I AM” in Exo­dus 3:14. We will give the com­plete vers­es of John 8:58 and Exo­dus 3:14 lat­er on in this paper. First, we would like to intro­duce to the read­er the Sep­tu­agint, which shall be the main ref­er­ence in this dis­cus­sion oth­er than the Bible itself. Let us delve into the expla­na­tion about the Sep­tu­agint : The word Sep­tu­agint” is tak­en from the Latin word sep­tu­ag­in­ta which means 70”. There­fore, this book is also known as LXX”, which sim­ply means 70”.

Paul and The​‘Inspi­ra­tion’ of Scripture

In II Tim­o­thy 3:16, we read the claim of Paul :
All Scrip­ture is God-breathed and is use­ful for teach­ing, rebuk­ing, cor­rect­ing and train­ing in right­eous­ness.” (2 Tim­o­thy 3:16)
In the above verse, we clear­ly see that the entire Bible is sup­posed to be inspired from God Almighty. How­ev­er, there are few prob­lems with the claim.

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