Another snippet from my marathon debate yesterday at Speakers’ Corner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsdxBxtQxpQ and before anyone complains (as they have done) that I’m preying on Christians who don’t know their faith, Josh is doing a PhD in Christian theology.
History
Questions on stoning and hand chopping in Islam?
A new MUST READ article by Jonathan Brown, an Associate Professor and Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University. Reblogged from the Yaqeen Institute Often the only things people in the West associate with Islam are stoning and hand chopping. These… Read More ›
Cairo Church Bombing in Perspective
Indeed, it is a tragedy whenever lives are lost. We all grieve when the lives of the innocent are taken. Unfortunately, there are people among us who thrive off of the deaths of others, who use the blood of the… Read More ›
WAS JESUS GOD OR PROPHET OF GOD? || Br. PAUL WILLIAMS LECTURE @ REGENTS PARK MOSQUE
Sadly due to a technical difficulty there is no actual video for this lecture. The cameraman took a picture instead. The audio quality is fine though. Recorded on Saturday 10th December at London Central Mosque (aka Regents Park Mosque)
A lecture on the authorship of the Pentateuch by Dr James F. McGrath of Butler University.
Discover the compelling historical and moral reasons why Moses did not write the first five books of Moses as we have them (also know as the Pentateuch and Torah). These factors have nothing to do with so-called anti-supernatural liberal scholarship…. Read More ›
Is the Bible perfect in all its historical details and ethical teaching?
This book is recommended by John J Collins, Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation at Yale University who has written the Forward (see extract below). It arrived at my office this afternoon. I immediately jumped to chapter 8 Jesus Was Wrong as… Read More ›
Theresa May: we can all be proud of our Christian heritage
The British PM is right to speak up for our Christian heritage which has come under relentless secular pressure for generations. Christianity is on its deathbed in the UK. Islam is the faith of the future, but I for one… Read More ›
Jesus remembered: ‘ideological tinkering must have gone on from the start’
Dale C. Allison Jr writes: ‘Some of my divinity students, who find themselves threatened by the discourse of the quest [for the historical Jesus], the chief categories of which derive not from Christian theology but from the modern study of… Read More ›
When men are called “God” in the Bible
Surprisingly, there are a number of places in the Jewish Scriptures (aka the Hebrew Bible & Old Testament) where beings other than Yahweh are called divine or “God”. I draw on the extensive discussion of key passages in King and Messiah as Son… Read More ›
A great Englishman and a Catholic saint
Cromwell: You don’t seem to appreciate the seriousness of your position. More (imprisoned in the Tower of London): I defy anyone to live in that cell for a year and not appreciate the seriousness of his position. Cromwell: Yet the… Read More ›
An opinion poll with some relevance to today
The United States, 20th January 1939: Should the US government permit 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children to come in from Germany?
The Crucifixion and the Qur’an
The Quran makes a very interesting claim: ‘God has sealed them [the Jews] in their disbelief, so they believe only a little – and because they disbelieved and uttered a terrible slander against Mary, and said, ‘We have killed the… Read More ›
The three Christs
Catholicism knows the Christ of faith. Protestantism knows the Christ of Paul. Islam knows the Christ of history.
The gospel truth is not what you might think
One of the world’s most distinguished biblical scholars from Oxford University uncovers the realities of the four gospels. Most Christians have no inkling of these historical facts.
Just arrived in my office..
This is a fascinating book by two world-class scholars at Yale University exploring the divinity of Jesus in the Bible. This work is highly acclaimed by other scholars in the field. I recommend it to Muslims doing Islamic apologetics and… Read More ›
‘A Challenge for Christians in the Face of Continued Decline’
White offers a superb defence of the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality. White effectively demolishes Tony Campolo’s revisionist pro-gay spin with accurate and objective exegesis of the key biblical passages. Sadly the orthodox Christian defence of marriage is loosing significant ground even in Evangelical… Read More ›
“A paradox of truly world historical dimensions”
Hans Küng is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author.
Rabbi Tovia Singer Explores the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity, the Church’s Self-inflicted Wound
Published on 26 Oct 2016 ‘Responding to a caller, Rabbi Tovia Singer explores how the thoroughly monotheistic Christian movement that first broke away from Judaism rapidly transformed itself into a religion that embraced the notion that God had a son… Read More ›
Islam is not the Cause of Honor Killings. It’s Part of the Solution
This part of the history of honor killings you’re unlikely to read or hear about. In 1947 in the British colony of Nigeria, English judges had to overturn what they viewed as the backwards ruling of a local Shariah court…. Read More ›
The History of the World: Every Year
Since 200,000 BCE, humanity has spread around globe and enacted huge change upon the planet. This video shows every year of that story, right from the beginning.
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