November 2025 Open Forum Discussion

William Finck
CHR20251128-Open Forum.mp3

What follows is a brief list of some of the topics discussed in the Forum:

  • An experience for an Identity Christian marrying into a Catholic family.

  • Necromancy, Saul and Samuel, was it really Samuel?

  • Artaxerxes, Cambyses and Cyrus and the use or appearance of these names in Ezra and Nehemiah.

  • Los Lunas Inscription – Is it real?

  • Born again and the Catholic Vulgate.

  • Marcion and Ebionites rejecting portions of Scripture.

  • Kings mentioned in Daniel and chapters apparently out of order.

  • Necromancy – the dynamic is different after Christ than it had been before Christ.

  • Jephtha’s daughter dedicated to tabernacle in wilderness, not slain.

  • Missing data in books of Kings and Chronicles?

  • Strabo and White Syrians, Neo-pagan attitudes towards the Classics.

  • Strabo, Idumaeans and Nabataeans.

  • Dan, Danaans, Cyrus Gordon, Jewish attitudes towards archaeological truths.

  • Jewish media dehumanization of Christians, just as they dehumanized Nazis.

  • Schindler’s List is a fictional work.

  • Orthodox Jews and welfare fraud.

  • White altruism coupled with Jewish gaslighting prevents Whites from seeing Jewish evil.

  • Chemtrails were patented to inhibit “global warming” by Hughes Aircraft Co. in 1990.

  • Christianity, Goths and Alans.

  • Are Jews behind the rise in “antisemitism” in ways that are not obvious?

  • Christianity and the Crusades as a weak and late response to Islamic conquest.

  • Diminishing beef supply in United States

  • Treaty of Arbroath, Remonstrance of the Irish Kings, Milesians from Phoenicia

  • Arabs in Siciliy and Italy early 9th century, but in Greece too?

  • Descriptions of yellow-haired Greeks, Phoenicians in Classical and Hellenistic literature.

  • If Jesus was a Jew, Jews would worship Jesus…

And more!

Challenging Orthodoxy: Further Scriptural Witnesses Against the Trinity Doctrine

William Finck
CHR20251121-AgainstOrthodoxy02.mp3

Challenging Orthodoxy: Further Scriptural Witnesses Against the Trinity Doctrine

Ever since I began the commentary on the Gospel of John back in 2018, which was an endeavor that took me nearly two full years to complete, I have wanted to do certain topical programs which condensed particular subjects that are prominent in the Gospel of John into single topical presentations. In my estimation, the Gospel of John was the last one written, and was purposely written in a way which sets it apart from the synoptic Gospels. The apostle John illustrated teachings both about Christ and from Christ which the synoptic Gospels only represent superficially, or had excluded entirely. So I view John as a retrospective account of the Gospel, as John seems to have read the others, and chose to fill in many of the gaps from the substance and ministry of Christ which were left unrecorded in the synoptic gospels. One of those subjects is the nature of Christ Himself, so that John provides much of the evidence against the later so-called trinity doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. But for some time I procrastinated, having been busy with other projects, so it has been seven years, at least, since I first realized a need to do this, and when I finally began to prepare for this discussion, I honestly thought it would only be a single presentation. However doing that first presentation, I had to stop at about eleven thousand words, because I ran out of writing time, and that left several thousand words of notes for Scriptures that were left without mention. Therefore, here we are with a second discussion challenging the trinity doctrine, and I shall try not to repeat much of what I had said in the first discussion.

But when I finally resolved to discuss this subject of the so-called trinity here three weeks ago, it had been precipitated by a certain presumed friend who has continually accosted me, attempting to correct me for what he perceives to be my shortcomings. While we have been acquainted in social media for many years, he even joined the Christogenea Chat back in August, just to argue with me about his trinity doctrine, which he holds precious, and now he has once again badgered me in social media. But he also continually and rather consistently misrepresents me and my positions on the issue, probably because he has not actually read my papers. However, certain people seem to have a difficult time reading and grasping things which they find disagreeable, and now after several long back-and-forth discussions with this individual, I am convinced that he is one of them. He claims to admire my work, but he really only admires it to the point where he agrees, and then he thinks he has some divine commission to demand that I change where he does not agree. While I continue to disagree, in essence, his attitude is that he knows everything, and he can correct me because I don’t know what I am talking about. It is actually arrogant for such a man to keep confronting me when I refuse his correction.

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 50: A Place of Their Own

William Finck
Isaiah 49:17-26
CHR20251114-Isaiah50.mp3

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 50: A Place of Their Own

In the first portion of Isaiah chapter 49 we discussed The Light of the Nations in relation to both the Gospel of Christ, and those for whom the Gospel had been intended, who are the children of Israel and Judah who were in captivity in the islands and coastlands of the West. It is they who were explicitly addressed in the opening verses of the chapter. Then in the course of that discussion, we also hope to have demonstrated the fact that Paul of Tarsus had received a notable commission from Christ Himself to bring the Gospel to those nations, who were the greater number of the scattered children of Israel, not only from the Assyrian captivity, but from as early as the captivity of Egypt, and all of the people who had left by sea to settle abroad during the intervening periods of the Judges and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. 

In the 8th century BC, western Europe as well as the rivers and seas to the north, were an object of exploration for both Greeks and Phoenicians, but the Phoenicians had already dominated the western Mediterranean, so the Greeks were constrained from that area and from safely reaching the Ocean. The Romans were not yet sailors, as the Roman historian Titus Livius explained in his History of Rome, that they learned ship-building and sailing rather late, in the 3rd century BC, so that they could fight a war against the Carthaginians. So in the later portion of the 7th century BC the Greeks founded a colony at Cyrene, on the coast of Egypt near the Nile Delta, and then at Marseilles, on the Mediterranean coast of France. At Marseilles, there is evidence of an earlier Phoenician presence. In that same century, Greeks had also founded colonies on the coast of the Black Sea both in the Crimea and at the mouth of the Danube River.

Documenting Jewish Cooperation with Muslims During the Islamic Conquests of Europe and the Near and Middle East

This article offers an excerpt from the book: The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic by Stanford J. Shaw. This book was published by New York University Press in 1991, and it is now evidently out of print. It must be noted, that Wikipedia acknowledges that Shaw himself has Jewish heritage, although he was born and raised in St. Paul Minnesota.

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 49: The Light of the Nations

William Finck
Isaiah 49:1-16
CHR20251107-Isaiah49.mp3

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 49: The Light of the Nations

Discussing the last six chapters of Isaiah, from the middle of chapter 43, Babylon and its fall to the Persians, as well as the related issue of the Persian policy which had paved the way for the rebuilding of Jerusalem, is the significant theme throughout all of them. The fall of ancient Babylon is certainly the central event in the near-vision fulfillment of this prophecy since Cyrus, the then-future king of Persia, was explicitly named and his role in its fall was described. But as we have also explained, those events did not fulfill all of the descriptions found concerning the fall of Babylon in these prophecies of Isaiah. Therefore, as we had further explained, it is evident that these prophesies of Isaiah have a greater purpose than the end of the relatively short-lived Neo-Babylonian empire, and for that, much of the language concerning Babylon here is repeated in reference to the fall of the entity which is called Mystery Babylon in the Revelation of Yahshua Christ.

So in that manner, Babylon becomes more than the name of the ancient city, as it is often used as an allegory representing the captivity of Israel as well as the series of world empires which would rule over the children of Israel in their time of punishment, a time which would last for many centuries. For that reason, at a time when the children of Judah were in captivity in Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had a dream where he had seen a fearsome vision of a beast made of four different metals. So the prophet Daniel had described and interpreted that vision for Nebuchadnezzar, where we read in part, from Daniel chapter 2:

36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. 37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. 39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.