The Magisterial Protestant

Christians for 2000 years have been proclaiming that a Jewish man by the name Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah, well let's see if he fulfills the prophesies in the Jewish scriptures. According to the Gospels. Jesus was born in Bethlehem Matthew 2:1 , he claimed to be the son of man Matthew 26:64, he was born of a virgin Luke 1:34 , he claimed to be God John 10:33 , John 8:58 , he was pierced and died for the sins of others Matthew 27:32-56, he rose from the dead Matthew 28:6 , his kingdom and reign will never end Luke 1:33 and lastly he arrived and died before 70 AD. Now that sounds very compelling and given that there is no other human in recorded history who claimed to be Messiah before 70 AD, Jesus is the only option The connection We have already gone through the Prophetic expectations for the Messiah but lets completely seal the deal on Jesus not without a reasonable doubt but without a shadow of a reasonable doubt. Isaiah 40:  3    A voice cries:  “...

  Something incredibly strange occurred in the first century. A man was born who would end up being labeled by historians as the most influential man in human history and every religious system known to man mentions him to different degrees. From atheist to believers his name is known by every human being under the stars today? Who was he, why was he important? What if i told you that this man was not only the most influential but also the most anticipated man to ever live such that people before his birth expected him and those after his birth seek his return. I believe that the anticipation of this man is the greatest proof for the Christian claims such that in light of this evidence unbelievers are left without excuse. Unexplainable prophesy   I want us to know and understand that the existence of the Jewish community is independent of scriptural data, they are people who no one historically doubts their existence in the ancient world as they are attested by the record...

The Holy Eucharist or Holy communion is a Christian sacrament that was instituted by Christ before he was betrayed. Christ, in this very important moment says something very peculiar before partaking of the Passover, he blesses the bread and wine and says "Take eat, this is my body" and "this is my blood". Is it his body, is it his blood? Or is it mere bread and wine. There is not a single biblical precedent to believe that Christ in instituting the Supper is speaking purely symbolically here. in fact quite the opposite, we have numerous biblical passages that speak to the actual presence of Christs real body and blood in the reception of the holy Eucharist. Let's take a walk through John 6: John 6:47-51 [47] Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life. [48] I am the bread of life. [49] Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. [50] This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat from it and not di...

She is the world's oldest and most enduring institution. She has been alive for 2000 years. She is home to 1.378 billion people and makes up 50% of all Christians and by far the largest denomination of Christianity. She is the Roman Catholic church. You will recall if you have read my article on ecumenism that initially there was only one Christian church after the death of the apostles. This church was called the "Catholic church" which simply means the universal church, to be clear I want to distinguish between the Roman Catholic church from simply the Catholic church. When i refer to the Catholic church i will be referring to the original first Christian church founded by the apostles before any schisms (splits) and Rome to refer to the Roman Catholic church led by the Pope in Vatican city whose church (along with 3 others) has been on earth since the time of Christ. Peter and the Papacy The Papacy is the foundation of Roman Catholicism and what distinguishes them from...

Atheists believe that the universe was formed out of nothing, that there was once a non-living primordial soup on earth that would evolve into bacteria to fish to land animals and eventually after millions of years through completely unguided processes human beings evolve from African apes on a planet that was positioned at the perfect distance from a star that was also put there by sheer coincidence. Which sustains conditions on this planet such that it is the only planet among the planets surrounding this star that could sustain life. Christians believe in Genesis 1:1. Notice how I started with the word "believe" for both Christians and atheists, because as you might have noticed, atheism has its own Genesis 1:1. Essentially, atheism posits that life came from non-life, intelligence from non-intelligence order from chaos, everything from nothing. Have scientists ever seen the primordial soup in which all life on earth derived? We see that atheists do have faith to believe i...