Another brilliant offering from Yahya Snow exposing the duplicitous and shallow propaganda of American missionary Jay Smith. An example of New Testament teaching ignored/rejected by Jay Smith: Titus 2:9-10 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try… Read More ›
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Understanding the Qurʾan’s creative use of rhetorical strategies against orthodox Christianity and a refutation of ‘Do Christians Believe Allah is really Jesus?’ by Sam Shamoun
(Part 2) This article is the second of a series of articles (the first can be read here) that are in part a refutation of Christian polemics, and in part a discussion of recent academic articles by top experts in… Read More ›
Avoiding extremes concerning the corruption of the scriptures
The View of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 A.H.) Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: With regard to the Gospels that the Christians have, there are four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They are agreed that Luke and Mark did… Read More ›
Christians at the time of Papias believed the Paraclete to be a human being (a prophet) not the Holy Spirit – UPDATE!
Christians at the time of Papias believed the Paraclete to be a human being (a prophet) not the Holy Spirit: ‘Church Fathers like Papias heard of wandering prophets who drew crowds from Europe to Asia Minor, claiming to be the… Read More ›
DEBATE: THE BIBLE OR THE QUR’AN? – SADAT ANWAR VS DR TONY COSTA
Calling Christians: ‘One of favourite Muslim debaters, Br. Sadat Anwar (may Allah preserve him) recently debated Dr. Tony Costa. Today the debate video has been released and suffice it to say, Br. Sadat is simply mesmerizing. He’s previously debated Alex… Read More ›
Judaism and Christianity on Sin and Atonement: Why do We Differ? Rabbi Tovia Singer Explains
The foundation of the Church stands on its core doctrine that the blood sacrifice alone expiates iniquity and reconciles man with God. In this intriguing broadcast, Rabbi Tovia Singer illustrates that the doctrine of substitutionary atonement—the notion that only the… Read More ›
The Jesus Blog Interviews Donald Trump on the Synoptic Problem
Sensational Jesus Blog interview I am a strong believer that blog posts are great entry points into complex topics. To this end, the Jesus Blog will be conducting a series of short interviews on complex topics in biblical studies. We hope… Read More ›
Interesting
What does this tell us?
Jesus in the Quran: The Message Film
From the Famous Movie “The Message” – a must see Movie for everyone.
Does Islam Teach “Substitutionary Atonement”? – A Response to a Christian Apologist
Faiz S. is a regular commentator on Blogging Theology. His comments are always intelligent and erudite. He has just published this article in reply to the evangelical apologist and fellow commentator Ken Temple. It originally appeared on Faiz’s excellent website The Quran and the Bible: A… Read More ›
“Historians Have to Make Things Up” says Thucydides.
Why the four gospels and the accounts in Acts may not be quite what they seem. Peter Enns (American Evangelical biblical scholar and theologian) explains why: Over at Mere Student, John Oliff posted on the Greek historian Thucydides’s (c.460-c.395 BC)… Read More ›
Just delivered to my office. Very juicy.
This book was cited in the recent debate ‘What Does the Quran Teach About The Bible? David Wood vs Shabir Ally’. I am gorging myself on it now. Review to follow inshallah… Sidney H. Griffith is Professor in the Department of… Read More ›
Evidence That Islam Teaches That There Was Textual Corruption of The Christian and Jewish Scriptures
Article reposted from Call to Monotheism Evidence That Islam Teaches That There Was Textual Corruption of The Christian and Jewish Scriptures by Bassam Zawadi One of the most common arguments that Christian missionaries pose to the Muslims is that Islamic teachings… Read More ›
A Review of ‘Narratives of Tampering in the Earliest Commentaries on the Qurʾān’
Dr Walid Saleh specialises in the Qur’an, its history, redaction and manuscripts; the history of the reception of the Qur’an and its exegesis, at the University of Toronto, Canada. His book review below contains some startling revelations (to me anyway). For… Read More ›
Did Jesus Predict Muhammad? A Biblical Portal Between Christianity and Islam
reblogged from Huffpost Religion By Ian Mevorach Theologian, minister, ethicist, and activist; co-founder of Common Street Spiritual Center (www.commonstreet.org) Part 1: The time has come for Christians and Muslims to make peace between our communities. Christians and Muslims already make up… Read More ›
Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? A Christian view in 60 seconds.
For generations, theologians have debated this very complex and multifaceted issue. These guys, though, think they figured it out in a couple seconds. I have only one problem with their conclusion. 1 Timothy 6:16 sums it up perfectly for me: … Read More ›
The powerful Biblical case for Apartheid and slavery explored
Did you realise that the best Christian theologians in America in the nineteenth century argued that God instituted slavery and approved of it? Yes, the fact is that leading evangelical and Reformed theologians argued that slavery was instituted by God… Read More ›
How Jesus Became God – Parts 1,2 and 3
On three days in January 2016, Bart D. Ehrman gave three separate lectures to attendees, a series that highlighted his book, “How Jesus Became God.” Rev. Megan Smith opened each session for the local parishioners and pastoral staff at Coral… Read More ›
Biblical Offerings vs. Christian Doctrine
Reblogged from Judaism Resources Christianity contends that the crucifixion of Jesus represents the culmination of the offerings described in the Jewish Bible. It is claimed that Jesus is the “sacrifice to end all sacrifices”. Is there any truth to this… Read More ›
The church has for centuries, since post-biblical times, defined God as 3 Persons. Jesus defined God as 1 Person, the Father: John 17.3
John 17:3: And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
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