I like Bishop Robert Barron – he is a good example of the virtuous, sane, and intelligent Christian. It is probably no accident that he is Roman Catholic too. Catholics tend to be far less extreme and hateful than their evangelical co-religionists…. Read More ›
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Paul – faithful follower of Jesus or inventor of a new religion?
This is an excellent article just published on Many Prophets, One Message – A Call to The Truth The Old Testament is filled with numerous commandments (‘mitzvot’ in Hebrew), 613 in total to be precise, and in Judaism one’s standing as… Read More ›
A Muslim Approach to the Gospels
Dr Shabir Ally outlines a helpful Muslim approach to understanding the four gospels in the New Testament. He outlines how the gospel writers modified earlier teaching about Jesus to heighten the status of Jesus, making him greater and more divine. Shabir’s analysis… Read More ›
P1 – Obey the law! Paul (Muslim) vs Richard (Christian) | Speakers corner | Hyde Park
Filmed yesterday at Speakers Corner. Indepth discussion on the Jewish Law (Torah) of Jesus pbuh and how it was really interpreted. Richard is a writer on Blogging Theology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtQ3fS03jE
This is what happens when Christians don’t believe that there will be sex in Heaven
Watch till the end for hilarious comment by Dr Shabir Ally. Even Sam Shamoun laughs.
Three popular proofs that Jesus was God
Jesus is God because he did amazing miracles! Jesus is God because he forgave sins! Jesus is God because people bowed down and worshiped him!
Just delivered: a must read for Muslims and Christians
‘In A Man Attested by God Professor J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels is best interpreted as an idealised human figure rather than divine. Counterbalancing the recent trend toward early… Read More ›
La Mort de l’avare – Death and the Usurer
Entitled Death and the Usurer (painted at a time when Christians agreed with Muslims that usury is a sin), this extraordinary Christian composition is by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch around 1500-1510. The work is the right panel of a triptych, now… Read More ›
How Many Wills Does Jesus Have? Jonathan McLatchie vs Tony Costa
More Christian confusion! In terms of orthodox Christian theology what Jonathan McLatchie believes is a heresy. It is lucky for him he did not live in Calvin’s Geneva – he would literally have been burnt alive at the stake.
“Modern democracy is the tyranny of secular values”
Revd Peter Mullen is a British clergyman ordained in the Church of England. This is an extract from his hard-hitting article in The Salisbury Review. What he says applies with equal force to Muslims and traditional Jews of course. Democracy has no… Read More ›
Lizzie Schofield asks Muslim man “Do you have more than one wife?” – Shocking Pfander Films Polemic
Lizzie Schofield randomly and inexplicably asks a Muslim she is debating with whether he has more than one wife. Lizzie knows this is considered rude – I doubt she would randomly ask such a random question to her African male… Read More ›
Muslims call it ‘Qadr’
Stonewall Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. For more information on Qadr ‘The Patriarchy is a traditionalist (Catholic) periodical which caters to gentlemen and ladies grown weary of modernist culture.’… Read More ›
I’m not sure Jesus had this in mind when he said “Suffer little children to come unto me” (KJV)
New parents in Tbilisi, Georgia queued up to have their children “blessed” at the Trinity Cathedral in celebration of the Epiphany on January 19. The mass baptism was an invention of Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II, seen to be… Read More ›
Brother Paul’s story – Path to Truth | Speakers Corner | Hyde Park
There was much more I could have said, especially about the huge impact the Holy Qur’an played in my conversion to Islam. Filmed yesterday at Hyde Park in London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgrIjIDfMqs
Jesus the avatar ? – a short muslim critique about God incarnate
The trinitarian belief system which holds that Jesus was the real God Almighty who incarnated into a human body and thus taking on 100% human nature while retaining 100% divine substance, was and always the most notorious point at issue between Christianity and Islam. Amazing… Read More ›
I Planned to Destroy Islam, I Became Muslim
Shariffa Carlos amazing Journey to Islam The story of how I reverted to Islam is a story of plans. I made plans; the group I was with made plans, and Allah made plans. And Allah is the Best of Planners…. Read More ›
Yale: “The Synoptic Gospels do not portray Jesus as preexistent”
This will come as a shock to most people to learn that New Testament scholarship is broadly in agreement that the gospels of Matthew and Luke do not portray Jesus as preexistent and have no awareness of the notion of the… Read More ›
Blessed are the peacemakers
It’s good to know that not all Christians are extremists like Sam Shamoun, David Wood and Neil Littlejohn. Some like Daniel Kirk here, a Christian professor of the Bible, are peacemakers and reach out to the ‘other’ in compassion. They will get… Read More ›
Missionary Fail! Nazam & Paul vs Christian Missionary
Missionary tries to tell Muslims that lying is acceptable in Islam but when the tables are turned and lying is pointed out in the Bible, things get a bit awkward for him. 2 Thessalonians 2:11: “For this reason God sends… Read More ›
If God does not exist, is everything permitted?
There’s a famous passage from “The Grand Inquisitor” section of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in which Ivan Karamazov claims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. If there is no God, then there are no rules to… Read More ›
Translations of the Jewish Scriptures especially toxic to Christians, Rabbi Tovia Singer explains
Responding to caller, Rabbi Tovia Singer illustrates how Christian Bibles deliberately manipulated Jewish text and wove numerous Christologies into their “translations” of the Jewish Scriptures. Moreover, Rabbi Singer explains, Christian children are not trained in the Hebrew language. This renders… Read More ›
Polygamy anyone?
The background to this tweet concerns ongoing arguments in the Roman Catholic church about Pope Francis seeming to allow remarried Catholics to receive holy communion (which is contrary to traditional church teaching). Why not polygamists? These marriages were acceptable in the Bible… Read More ›
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