1. Starting Point: Salt’s Meaning Arises from Its Practical Function The symbolic meanings—covenant, permanence, wisdom—derive from salt’s primary observable property in the ancient world: Salt...
Most readers approach Matthew 5:27–30 with a fixation on sexual ethics. This is not invalid—but it is secondary, not primary. The far more consistent, pervasive, and structurally dominant theme in...
1. The Pharisees’ Problem Is Not That Jesus Breaks Rules, but That Jesus Breaks the Imagination If Jesus were merely a rule-breaker, He could be ignored as a fringe type. If Jesus were merely a...
“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” (Matt 8:20) The scene recorded in Matthew 8:18–22 is often read too lightly, as if it were merely a...
Matthew 5:22 is one of the most often quoted but least deeply understood verses in the Sermon on the Mount. People usually read Jesus’ words as a simple escalation: anger is wrong, certain insults are...
Introduction The Lord’s Prayer, taught by Jesus as the model and substance of Christian prayer, is often treated as an independent unit—an isolated catechetical formula. Yet the Gospels themselves do...
When people speak about John the Baptist today, they often imagine him as a wild ascetic by the river, dipping people into water as a kind of ritual cleansing. This picture has persisted for centuries...
1. FORM — Full Immersion and Its Original Meaning A. Full immersion as the ancient norm John’s baptism was unquestionably a full-body immersion. The linguistic force of βαπτίζω (“to plunge, sink...
Brothers and sisters, today we come to a verse in the Gospel that, at first hearing, can sound frightening. It is Matthew 18:6, where Jesus speaks of a millstone tied around a person’s neck and being...
Beloved brothers and sisters, today I want to speak to you about something that lies at the very heart of the Scriptures—God’s voice. We hear the words: “Worship Me! Obey Me! I am the only God!” And...
1. The Father Is Truly One Because His Oneness Is Unassailable This point overturns the entire “Trinitarian anxiety” that historically drove so many dogmatic formulations. I'm saying this: The Father...
INTRODUCTION The question “Is the Logos—Word, Son, Jesus Christ—God?” has perplexed religious traditions for millennia. The difficulty does not arise from ambiguity in revelation, but from a...
1. “But Jesus clearly enjoyed the people praising Him.” Rebuttal: “If He enjoyed it, why does He start weeping immediately afterward? Joy and grief don’t sit side-by-side like that unless the praise...
Brothers and sisters, today we look at a moment in the Gospel that many of us think we understand—the moment Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, while the crowds wave palm branches and shout,...
Most readers assume these two insults represent different levels of verbal contempt. But linguistically they do not differ in moral weight or seriousness.
Humanity has always stood before God under the same overarching revelation: “God is One.” This is the unbroken monotheistic call that stretches across Torah, Gospel, and Qur’ān — what could rightly be...
1. What is the mainstream reading? The dominant, popular Christian reading is: The crowds are rightly praising Jesus as the Messianic King. The Pharisees want Jesus to silence this inappropriate...
Part I. The Qur’ān’s Silence on the Trinity: A Reassessment of Its Polemical Target Many people—Muslims, Christians, and secular observers alike—assume that the Qur’ān directly attacks the Christian...
Opponent: Jesus is clearly threatening offenders with drowning. Me: Not possible — Isaiah 42:2–3 says the Messiah never shouts or breaks people. So whatever Jesus is doing here, it’s not violent...
PART II. 1. Resurrection (Relocation) is Not Time-Bound The duration of death is irrelevant. Resurrection is not constrained by: decay, the age of the corpse, the amount of time passed, the...
I. My Core Doctrine of Equality: “Decretive Equality” vs “Ontological Distinction” I'm talking about a double truth: 1. Ontologically, the Father and Son are not identical. The Father is the source...
1. “Same Jesus at 12 and 30.” The Gospels show continuity: the same insight, same authority, same unique voice. Only context—not content—changed. 2. “Jesus didn’t learn His teachings.” He astonished...
1. Rome didn’t crucify petty thieves. Crucifixion was for political threats—rebels, insurgents, bandits, and dissidents. So the “thieves” were almost certainly anti-Roman fighters, not pickpockets. 2...
I never thought my end would come like this. When I first picked up the dagger, when I first slipped into the hills with men who whispered of freedom, I thought myself righteous. We fought for Israel...
The Mockery of the Two Thieves: Not Humor but Dismay—Re-reading Oneidízō at Golgotha The Greek verb ὀνειδίζω ( oneidízō ) is often rendered blandly as “to insult,” “to mock,” or “to revile.” But this...
When I look at Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I do not first see a “religious founder,” nor a philosopher, nor even the heroic figure that so many believers try to make Him into. Rather, I see a Child...
There are many stories about resurrection, but most of them imagine something too small. They imagine a corpse, stiff and cold, suddenly jolted awake—as if God were a physician reviving a patient...
Resurrection Timing considerations 1. Resurrection (Relocation) is Not Time-Bound This is what I'm affirming: The duration of death is irrelevant. Resurrection is not constrained by: decay, the age of...
1. “Jesus forbids saying ‘fool.’” He says it Himself (Matt 23), so the word isn’t the sin—the intention is. 2. “Ῥακά and μωρέ have different severity.” They mean the same thing; one is Aramaic, the...
There is a strange and unsettling truth woven quietly through the pages of the Gospels—so quiet that centuries of commentators have spoken around it without ever daring to name it: Jesus did not share...
1. “You are denying a bodily resurrection” (Common to both Protestant & Catholic critics) The criticism: “If you say Jesus was relocated rather than raised in the same tomb, you’re sneaking in...
Basic Principles about Devil I. First Principle: If the devil is “the father of lies,” then everything humans commonly say about him is his own propaganda. This principle is crucial. If he is: the...
OBJECTION 1: “John’s baptism was just ritual Jewish cleansing.” REBUTTAL: No, ritual cleansing in Judaism was self-administered, repeated, and tied to impurity laws. John’s baptism was administered by...
When Jesus declared to His disciples, “You are the salt of the earth,” He spoke a line that is both familiar and mysterious. Salt was one of the most ordinary substances in the ancient world, yet...
Matthew 5:27–30 (ESV) 27 “You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery...
From the beginning, Christian eschatology has carried a tension that appears almost irreconcilable. On one side stand the sayings of Jesus and His apostles that the Son of Man will come “as a thief in...
Counterarguments to the ‘Purely Physical Healing’ View of John 9 1. Instantaneous Perceptual Mastery The man not only receives eyesight; he instantly understands visual reality. A person who has never...
1. The Scene of the Miracle In the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus encounters a man blind from birth. He spits on the ground, makes clay with His saliva, spreads it on the man’s eyes, and...
Very simple: he did not get past them because He was no longer there in the tomb. Sounds strange? Well, let’s unravel it. Gospels are notorious for presenting different versions (how many Marys? how...
1. The Paradox of Place In every miracle of Jesus, there is not only the act of healing but also the mystery of where it happens. If divine healing is a causal relocation—a movement of a person into a...
Among all post-resurrection encounters, none has been as persistently misread as the story of Thomas the Apostle. He is remembered as “Doubting Thomas,” the skeptic who demanded physical evidence of...
When Jesus asked his disciples at Caesarea Philippi, “Who do you say that I am?” and Peter suddenly declared, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God,” the scene has often been explained as a...
Absolutely not. Such a power does not exist as going to Hell is uniquely the privilege of the person concerned. It is a privilege, not even a right! Nobody can force another to go to Hell if he does...
Jesus left the beloved disciple with his mother Mary for a very practical and far reaching outcome. Thus the beloved disciple and by extension other disciples (both male and female) finally became...
The answer is actually very simple. Your body depends on location. If you are on Earth you have the kind of body we’re accustomed to see here. If you are in Heavens the body is much different...
You will see this issue clearer if you understand how the resurrection truly works. It is not done by reanimating (forget zombies) but by relocation. Jesus explained it by telling that: “… whoever...
At the table of the Last Supper, Jesus said something that has puzzled readers ever since “Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one." Why would the Prince of Peace ask for swords? Why end the meal that way, when only a few hours later He would forbid their use?
The question of what truly happened to Jesus of Nazareth at the time of the crucifixion has haunted both Christian and Muslim theology for centuries. On one hand, Christians insist that Jesus was...
It's not hard to see why some people today think the resurrection of Jesus could be explained as a kind of grief hallucination. The Gospel narratives — taken on their surface — do present a strange...
When Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven, His words consistently broke the logic of adult reason. The rules of this Kingdom seem to contradict what we consider mature, rational, or even realistic...
Here is a reconstruction of the Good Samaritan Story that actually restores the moral tension and historical realism that many modern readers miss when they flatten the parable into a generic “be kind...
When Jesus told His listeners not to store up treasures on earth, “where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal,” He was not giving an abstract moral maxim. He was speaking to...
The Gospels give us only one explicit charge against Judas Iscariot before his betrayal — that “he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to take what was put into it” (John 12:6). This line...
Most people read this verse as a literal description of movement — that since Jesus was seen going up, He will one day come down through the sky. But the angel’s words actually speak about manner, not...
This is the Christic paradox at the heart of this. Just like the seed must fall to the ground and die to produce life (John 12:24), Jesus must fully enter into death to reach the place where death never happened.
Porphyry base his claim on false premise that Jesus' resurrection was a zombie-like re-agitation where he continue on after being crucified, dead and partly bodily disintegrated. If re-livened, he is...
What if Jesus have already come many times and found no one with faith on Earth? What if he did not delay his coming but without the proper reception has been left unnoticed? 1. The premise of...
The month of Ramadan is far more than a ritual of abstinence; it is a reenactment of the living days of Jesus Christ, the very rhythm of His open ministry upon the earth. It is the sacred pattern of...
I have long wondered why the Qur’an was assembled in the particular order that it now bears — an order not by chronology, nor by topic, nor by the flow of story, but rather by size: the longer...
The supposed cruelty of God is often raised as the number one argument against His existence. Atheists and skeptics point to the Scriptures where God is said to damn the unbelievers, to cast them into...
The Damascus vision is one of the most profound moments in sacred history. In it, Jesus speaks from the glory of heaven to a man who believes himself to be defending the honor of God. “Saul, Saul, why...
I. Introduction The episode of Jesus’ rejection in Nazareth (Luke 4:16-30; Mark 6:1-6; Matthew 13:53-58) has long been read as an example of stubborn unbelief. Yet, upon closer reading, the text...
There is a mystery in those words: “Of that day and hour no one knows — not the angels, nor the Son, but only the Father.” How can the Eternal Word not know? How can Light itself be unaware of its own...
1. The Paradox of the Unseen Presence The question, “What if Jesus has already come many times and found no one with faith?”, does not challenge the promise of His return; it deepens it. It suggests...
1. The Voice at Sinai I believe that the voice which spoke from Sinai—thundering, commanding, demanding reverence—was none other than the Logos, the Son of God, speaking in the authority of the divine...
When Scripture speaks of the “voice of God,” it is easy to imagine the transcendent Father Himself calling down from the clouds. Yet, when one looks closely, that voice often bears the tone of a...
There are several authentic ḥadīth in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim where the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ spoke about the descent of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam (Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him) near the end of...
Evil is not an independent substance; it is a condition of lack. It arises where abundance is withdrawn, where the fullness of being becomes constricted into limitation. The Greeks called darkness...
You know, the overall understanding of the religious rules might be misunderstood. I mean, the traditional approach is that Jesus brought amendments to the existing comandments. When he says: "You...
Mainstream Claim : “Jesus says lust = adultery.” Response: No. Adultery destroys families; a glance doesn’t. Jesus isn’t equating sins—He’s exposing self-righteousness. Mainstream Claim: “Jesus is...
18 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. 19 And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 20 And Jesus said to him,...
The Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ foretold that when Jesus, son of Mary, returns at the end of time, “he will break the cross, kill the swine, abolish the jizyah, and wealth will pour forth until no one accepts...
Two thousand years ago, the Jews had the Scriptures. They knew the promises. They longed for Messiah. And yet when he came, most missed him. Why? Because he did not look like the Messiah they expected...
John the Baptist, while imprisoned, sends messengers to Jesus to ask if he really is the Messiah. This episode appears in two Gospels: Matthew 11:2–6 (NRSV) When John heard in prison what the Messiah...
The Passage (John 3:1–8, emphasis added) There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come...
Let’s talk about the mystery of Jesus’ death and resurrection — and why Christians and Muslims seem to disagree, yet may both be holding pieces of the same truth. Christians say: Jesus was crucified...
Let's talk about the incident where a certain girl has died and later Jesus resurrected her. In the material reality the girl has truly died and all the people saw it. Why then Jesus says this...
This it the correct way to read the Kingdom of Heaven sayings — through the eyes of childhood as the key to its logic. Indeed, Jesus Himself gave a direct interpretive key when He said: “Truly I tell...
When Jesus sent out His disciples, He gave strange instructions: “Take nothing for your journey — no bag, no bread, no money, not even a second tunic. Stay in one house. If you are rejected, shake the dust from your feet.” At first, this sounds like a test of radical trust in God. But then the Gospels don’t even agree — Matthew says “no staff,” Mark says “take only a...
The body was buried unclothed—washed and wrapped only in linen. The Mishnah (Moed Katan 27b) even insists that the wealthy should not be buried in expensive garments, so as not to shame the poor...