Streams Of Truth

Some skeptics and contradictors of Christianity claim that the Deity of Christ was an invention of people, something that progressively developed years after the time of Jesus on earth. I would like to provide evidence that this is not the case, and that in fact, the belief that Messiah is God pre-dated the incarnation of Jesus.   My argument in this article is based on the Book of Isaiah, a prophetic book which clearly speaks about the Son Of God, as I have documented in this other article. However, this time I'd like to present what the believers before the time of Jesus understood this prophetical book spoke about.   It’s important to highlight that the view of Rabbinical Jews today about Isaiah, and in specific of Isaiah 53 is not aligned with the view of Orthodox Judaism, especially in the first century BCE. To demonstrate this, I'd like to review what the Targums, and in specific to the Targum Johnathan say.   Targu...

A study of the Muslim apologetic claim that the Pharaoh's body discovery is fulfillment of Surah 10:90-92 indicates that the claim is flawd. The following issues are found: 1. The alleged prophecy is not absolutely clear: The mummy was not found on the Red Sea Shores and there is still division among scholars about identifying who the Exodus' Pharaoh was. 2. The salt crystals in the mummy does not indicate the Pharaoh died from drowning. 3. The contents of Surah 10:90-92 does not document previously hidden knowledge. Furthermore, Surah 10:90-92 is not the earliest historical writing claiming that the Pharaoh of Exodus drowned and later on was recovered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was sharing the other day with my muslim friend several passages within the Torah referring  the person of Jesus. My Muslim friend argued that the prophecies that I was referring to were not very clear, and could correspond of a conspi...

Summary This article presents a Study of Hebrews 1, and highlights the portions which support the view of the divinity of Jesus. When looking the context and contents of Hebrew 1 it's found that: What God says about the Son, God hasn't told to anyone else. God says that the Son is God God says that He Annointed God. The context of the verse indicates that The Father is who anointed the Son, and both the Father and the Son are presented as God. God says to the Son that in the beginning The Son created it all, The Son is creator, hence he cannot be created. The Son exist from the beginning and He will not perish. That means God is saying that The Son is eternal. -------------------------------- In a forum a while ago, I engaged on a discusion about Unitarianism vs Trinitarianism. The acquantance I was interacting with brought forward this argument: If jesus is God then he played the fool because God didn't say he was God and God is talking about how he can do...

Summary Skeptics believe that the Bible is not trustworthy. The concept of Original Sin is used by skeptic apologists to discredit the reliability of the Bible and its message. Several times Original Sin is misrepresented of misunderstood. An evaluation weighing in the balance all of the contents of the Bible allows having clarity of why people in the past came with this concept. Common misunderstandings or misrepresentations related to original sin are: Original Sin teaches that all humans are seen by God as sinners as a consequence of Adam's sin. And this is unfair. Skeptics contend the fact that if God had made us sinners it would be also unfair for Him to expect us to be non-sinners. Some skeptics point to apparent contradictions with the definition of Original Sin and other verses in the Bible to discredit the reliability of the Bible. In this article I hope presenting a Biblical view on the subject, and through it: 1.       Show that...

This is the last of a series of 3 articles in response to challenges brought forward during the debate between Dr. Shabir Ally and Mr Nabeel Qureshi on Tawhid and Trinity, organized by RZIM. I had stated via tweeter that there were some interesting arguments that unfortunately had not been answered during the debate. As you would expect, some people challenged my opinion saying that all what Mr Ally had said is true. Even, someone challenged any christian scholar to refute the challenges made by Mr Ally. This statement was done by the administrator of the youtube channel Muslim By Choice. I must say in all fairness that the answer to my tweet is appropriate. Hence I decided promising to post in the youtube channel Muslim by Choice my answers to 3 challenges: Why not worshiping the Torah, if the Torah is eternal? (answer found  here ) Jesus can't be God and Man because that would mean He was both perfect and imperfect (answer found  here ) How do we know there are ...