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The Theological message of Paul as it relates to the primitive Christology of Philippians 2:5-11 by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

In this study of Paul’s Christology I will research the essential Christological idea that Paul was affirming from the earliest Christian community. The foundational text for my study will be from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in chapter 2 verse 5-11(Bowman and Komoszewski 2007:166-167). I will show that Paul is quoting an early doxological hymn affirming a high Christological view of the pre-existing incarnate Lord of all Jesus Christ that was worshiped as God, and [...]

By |2021-08-15T00:26:24+02:00January 20th, 2018|Christology, New Testament Reliability, Paul of Tarsus|0 Comments
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A Critique of “Jesus & the Injeel” by John Fontain by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff.

John Fontain has written a little booklet scrutinizing various themes and making large claims concerning the Bible, Jesus, and the Christian understanding of the Gospel. I do not endeavor to look at everything Mr. Fontain mentioned in this evaluation. I have tried to keep it short and precise, assessing his claims from a Biblical Christian and Scholarly understanding. About the cover: Just an interesting observation about the cover of this little booklet. The quality of [...]

By |2025-12-18T17:25:46+02:00July 30th, 2016|Muslim Objections Answered, New Testament Reliability|1 Comment
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Gospel authors unknown? by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

Recently I spoke to some Muslim friends and they objected to the actual validity of the Gospels based on the assumption that we can really not trust the four Gospels purely because we do not know who wrote them? This allowed me to compose the following brief response. First of all externally we can be assured that these Gospel authors were the actual authors by looking at the following evidence. Plutarch, Lucian, Porphyry, Plato ect. [...]

By |2020-03-16T15:02:35+02:00February 6th, 2016|New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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The Gospel According to Jesus – Presuppositions by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

A "do it yourself" catalog firm received the following letter from one of its customers: "I built a birdhouse according to your stupid plans, and not only is it much too big, it keeps blowing out of the tree. Signed, Unhappy. The "do it yourself" catalog firm replied: "Dear Unhappy, We're sorry about the mix-up. We accidentally sent you a sailboat blueprint. But if you think you are unhappy, you should read the letter from [...]

By |2020-06-01T16:35:10+02:00December 2nd, 2015|Church History, New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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The nature of variants in the early New Testament manuscripts by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

The site “Islamic Awareness” suggests that “the production of New Testament manuscripts radically changed after the persecution under Diocletian (303-305 CE) and especially after Constantine declared Christianity to be the official religion of the empire.” [1]Another Muslim voice asserts “that the Christian Bible is swarming with errors and contradictions.”[2] Earlier I have written on the cogency of the New Testament Manuscripts as well as the quantity and quality of these variants[3] but here I would like to describe [...]

By |2020-03-16T15:58:54+02:00September 11th, 2015|New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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Biblical preservation in light of the Qur’an by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

"the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible like gold refined seven times". (Psalm 12:6). More and more these days I find Theistic friends that are not from a Christian orientation use the prevalent view from secular scholarship predicting that the Bible books were corrupted and partially lost. Now earlier I have written on the trustworthiness of the text "The bible: now vs then"  but in this article I would like [...]

By |2025-07-14T00:01:41+02:00August 31st, 2015|New Testament Reliability, Quran|0 Comments
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The Bible compared to other religious texts by Winfred Corduan.

Once again, I wish to underscore that a survey of all the writings for which inspiration has been claimed at one time or another is not possible. In the preceding argument, I tried to show that one is not necessary either. Further, one could even question that such a survey is desirable for reasons other than the quest for knowledge, once it has been established that there is one exclusively inspired Scripture. Still, we can [...]

By |2021-08-15T01:28:29+02:00July 31st, 2015|Buddhism, Holy Books, Islam, New Testament Reliability, Quran|2 Comments
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What the Bible does not say by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

Recently a visitor to the Church came to me and started speaking all spiritually about the things of God. I enjoy it when people speak up and elaborate on current issues. What really caught me was the enthusiasm and conviction this gentleman used to quote the following Scripture; “Yes Pastor; where does it say again in Scripture, “Life is a journey not a destination”? I paused for a moment and answered; “I think it’s a [...]

By |2020-03-16T23:24:51+02:00July 12th, 2014|New Testament Reliability, Thoughts|0 Comments
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Is the New Testament Historically Reliable? by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

An introductory study of Christian apologetics reveals that the claims of Christianity were presented by the early apostles/messengers as verifiable, objective truth. Whereas most other world religions/cults avoid empirical and historical investigations, Christianity is grounded on real events having taken place (I Cor. 15:17). In fact, Dr. Steven Collins goes so far as to point out "Christianity might be the only belief system in the world that rests its validity on the reality of certain [...]

By |2020-03-16T23:39:02+02:00July 12th, 2014|Church History, New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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Was the Bible corrupted? Muslim scholars agree it was not! by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

Interesting that some Muslim scholars agree that corruption of the text was rather the way the Christians interpreted the text rather than the text itself that was corrupted? They say: "the charge of corruption of the Biblical texts makes no sense at all. It would not have been possible for Jews and Christians everywhere to agree on changing the text. Even if those in Arabia had done it, the difference between their book and those [...]

By |2021-08-15T01:35:55+02:00July 12th, 2014|Islam, New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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