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KJV-Only Pastor Engages In Intensive Word Study In Original English
NEWPORT NEWS, VA—Citing a desire to preach the Word faithfully, local pastor Willy Caldwell spent most of last week in his home office and local library, engaging in intensive word studies of a passage from the Gospel of John in its… Read More ›
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Christian double standards exposed by an honest Christian scholar
This extract from The Human Faces of God accurately describes the double standards Christian apologists always use when they criticise Muhammad: they basically have to throw the Bible under the bus ( polemicists such as Jay Smith do this as… Read More ›
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This will only get worse under Trump
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Lift up thine eyes
I have just discovered the art of Norman Rockwell an American artist who died in 1978. I like this one (amongst many others)
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Today’s world
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Islam With The Heart
Dr Jonathan AC Brown – IIITMedia Summer Scholars’ Program | Islam With The Heart Jonathan A.C. Brown is an American scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has been associate professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign… Read More ›
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Islam
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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 ›
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Was Jesus Yahweh?
Bart Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar, currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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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 ›
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Missionary Mishap: Seeing Jesus Challenge
Originally posted on Calling Christians:
On January 8th (2017), Neil Littlejohn, or as he is fondly called by his friends and family, Colin made it known that he had a vision of Jesus: He challenged anyone, quite literally, anyone to… -
Re: “The Evidential Value of Messianic Prophecy” – Does Matthew’s Use of Hosea 11 Open the Way for Muslim Apologists?
Jonathan McLatchie makes a noteworthy admission and argument which Muslims who argue for Prophet Muhammad being in the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible/Tanakh) will be interested in. Jonathan acknowledges the Messianic prophecy claims conservative Christians preach are not direct prophecies but what he… Read More ›
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Before Him
A must read..
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Islamic sentiments from a Christian professor
“I consider the secular a myth. I consider it a metaphysical impossibility. The notion of the secular assumes that there is an area of life from which God is absent. And since I don’t actually believe that, the secular seems… Read More ›
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“Moderate Islam” & Muslim American Leadership: Reflections Before the Deluge
by Jonathan Brown who is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Is it just me, or is being a Muslim in the US a rollercoaster ride? There’s so much… Read More ›
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A hadith
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Islam and homosexuality lecture
Sheikh Kazi Luthfur Rahman has kindly invited me to give a lecture on Islam and Homosexuality on Sunday 5th February at 7pm, under the auspices of the Alignment Dawah Project. More details to follow. And yes, it will be filmed inshallah…. Read More ›
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Pretty much…
Izzy claims ‘It’s a parody of what some fundamentalist Christians think about atheists.’ But I just don’t see any parody.
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“Systemic Cursing” of Jews and Muslims in Galatians 1 “Disconcerts” Pastor Tony Costa?
Right, let’s swiftly put this this polemic to bed and highlight gross inconsistency and intellectual dishonesty/negligence on the part of the polemicists. Evangelical Christian Polemicists like Jay Smith and Pastor Tony Costa claim Surah Al Fatiha (the first chapter in… Read More ›
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God’s Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad (by Richard A. Gabriel)
I recently purchased this book in the airport on my way back from holiday. The title looks interesting and the author is a Royal Military College of Canada professor. As opposed to standard islamophobia narrative that only Islam and Prophet Muhammad is… Read More ›
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Beware Pseudo-Scholars & Half-Baked Knowledge!
(reblogged from The Humble “I”) The best proverbs manage to capture important ideas in just a few words. One well-worn Arab proverb has it that: nisf al-‘ilm akhtaru min al-jahl – ‘Half-baked knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.’ ‘The greatest enemy of… Read More ›
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Never too cold for prayer.
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Revisiting ‘I Have Been Commanded To Fight…’ Hadith
Kaleef K. Karim This is a part two on this Hadith report (below) which is often quoted out of its historical context. In the previous piece, which can be seen here: “The Hadith ‘…Fight Until They Say There Is No… Read More ›
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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 ›
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Visions of Jesus? Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
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Ex-Muslim Neil Littlejohn now claims “Jesus” visited him..
Ex Muslim, Neil Littlejohn (formerly known as Ismaeel Abu Adam), is now claiming to have had a vision of Jesus. He even wants to take a polygraph test (a lie detector test). Look, somebody claiming to have seen Jesus is… Read More ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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