In the Jehovah's Witness brochure “Should You Believe in the Trinity?" there is a section on the Ante-Nicene Fathers in which the author appeals to the early church leader Tertullian as a voice supposedly against the Trinity. The paragraph reads: “Tertullian, who died...
The Inquisition is the institutional practice of specially appointed Roman Catholic priests charged with investigating and putting on trial individuals suspected of "heresy" (holding to beliefs and practices that were considered to be a threat to, or significantly out...
John the Baptist lived on a diet of locusts and wild honey, which was indicative of his wilderness ministry. In Matthew 3, it tells us twice that John was preaching "in the wilderness" (3:1, 3:3) and explains that "his food was locusts and wild honey." (3:4) Mark's...
Human sacrifice is different than the self-sacrifice of God. Jesus' voluntary sacrifice of His own life for the sins of His people is good, pleasing, and acceptable to God. He is the only one sufficiently pure (having no sin whatsoever, (1 Peter 2:21-25) and...
The Crusades are the wars that were fought between Roman Catholic Europe and the Muslim empires, as well as with other perceived enemies of European security or Roman Catholic orthodoxy, from the 11th to at least the 15th century. Before addressing the particular...
The first thing to be aware of is that Jehovah’s Witnesses have replaced the word “grace” with “undeserved kindness.” Their “Insight On The Scriptures” book (Volume 2, page 155)[fn]1988, Watchtower Bible And Tract Society of New York, Inc.; International Bible...