Christian; Afrikaner; Polyglot - Speak over 10 languages: Zulu... ; lover of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin; Theology; Philosophy; Theophobe; Indebted to the West.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Homily 54, Matthew:
"Καὶ ἐγώ σοι λέγω, σὺ εἶ Πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν· τουτέστι, τῇ πίστει τῆς ὁμολογίας." / "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; that is, on the faith of his confession."
@MimiSchizo If you want to KNOW that God loves you personally and that you are without a doubt saved and in a state if grace, read and believe Luther's Catechism.
"'Justification' means the remission of sins, reconciliation, or the acceptance of a person unto eternal life. ... Therefore Paul took the term 'justify' from the usage of the Hebrew word to indicate remission of sins, reconciliation, or acceptance." — St. Philip Melanchthon, Loci Communes (1535)
@QuoteNietzsche Of course yes, objective morality is real and it is summarized in the 10 commandments.
See Exodus chapter 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5 in Holy Scripture to read it.
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
There’s a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And here’s what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You don’t forge a document 70 times.
That’s just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
That’s when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…
he’s one step away from the cross.