QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: PROTESTANTS REJECT ABOUT THE DIVINE INSPIRATION OF THE BOOK OF TOBIT

Protestants reject the book of Tobit as divinely inspired. They state six reasons why they consider him to be among the apocryphals: 1) The angel Raphael hides his true identity from old Tobi, lying to him and presenting himself as Azariah son of Hananiah and grandson of Nathan (Tobit 5:13-14). 2) Old Tobit regains hisContinua a leggere “QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: PROTESTANTS REJECT ABOUT THE DIVINE INSPIRATION OF THE BOOK OF TOBIT”

I TRE ARCANGELI

A cura di Giuseppe Monno Nella Sacra Scrittura il titolo di Arcangelo è attribuito esplicitamente solo a Michele (Giuda 9). Tuttavia, la Tradizione della Chiesa, fondata anche su fonti deuterocanoniche e apocrife, riconosce come arcangeli anche Gabriele e Raffaele, venerati con solennità dalla Chiesa cattolica e da quelle ortodosse. Il termine Arcangelo deriva dal grecoContinua a leggere “I TRE ARCANGELI”

YEHOWAH IS NOT THE NAME OF GOD

YeHoWaH is not the real name of God, but it was coined by Raimondo Martini for a misreading of the Masoretic Hebrew text. Due to the prohibition in Judaism to pronounce God’s name (Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11), the Jews read הַשֵּׁם (transliterated: haShem) which means “the Name”, or אֲדֹנָי (transliterated: Ădōnāy) which means “Lord,” theContinua a leggere “YEHOWAH IS NOT THE NAME OF GOD”

THE HELL

The hell is essentially the condition of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and with the blessed. The term “hell” is the translation of the Latin “infernus”, which corresponds to the Greek ᾅδης (transliterated: “hades”) and the Hebrew שָׁאוּל (transliterated: “sheol”), and means “that lies below”. It therefore indicates the stay of the dead, thatContinua a leggere “THE HELL”

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON LUCA 23:43: TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE

Luke 23:43Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” If Jesus rose on the third day, and ascended to the Father after forty days, how could he keep that promise? Jesus is a Person of the divine Trinity, therefore one God with the Father (John 10:30; 16:15) andContinua a leggere “QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON LUCA 23:43: TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE”

JESUS WAS NOT HANGED ON A POLE, BUT HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS

According to the doctrine of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christ was hung on a stake, not a cross. Already in the Greek koinè (the biblical one) the Greek word “σταυρός” (transliterated: “stauròs”) translates as “pole”, but also “cross”. The Gospels provide us with some elements that exclude that Christ was hung on a pole rather than aContinua a leggere “JESUS WAS NOT HANGED ON A POLE, BUT HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS”

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