Hi there Saul, How did 2000 years treat you? Regards from your religion, she is today the world’s greatest religion, (long story how that came to be). While you were absent she spawned way out of control; I doubt you’d recognize her. She… Read More ›
“Where is the Injeel?”: a christian asks. Answered by Ibn Issam: “The four Gospels and Christian scriptures are clearly not the injeel. They make numerous unhistorical claims about Jesus which cannot possibly be true. The injeel is a revelation given… Read More ›
Shalom, Salam This post is a continuation of my previous post where I said I was going to explain why according to the Jewish scriptures, Jesus does not meet the qualifications for being the long promised Messiah.
In response to our dear friend Abdullah, shalom/salam. Throughout Jewish history we’ve been fighting for our right to not believe in Jesus as God. We were persecuted, exiled, tortured, killed and sometimes forcefully converted, but as a nation and a… Read More ›
Fascinating new lecture by Professor Bart D. Ehrman. Professor Bart Ehrman was the Keynote speaker at the Department of Near Eastern Studies presented a Mendenhall Symposium at the University of Michigan – Law, Society, and Religion on October 6, 2016,… Read More ›
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? These are supposedly the last words famously attributed to Jesus on the cross which is found only in Matthew and Mark gospels. I normally see this passage a highly problematic in relation to… Read More ›
First of all, as a muslim, I have to re-state again to the reader that I respect and venerate Isa Al Masih (or the anglo saxonised Jesus the Christ) as one of God’s greatest messenger with good character as example for humankind. But I am… Read More ›
To my knowledge there is no academic studies of what the messiahship of Jesus means in the Qur’an in comparison with the messiahship in Judaism and Christianity. This book: The Mystery of the Messiah: The Messiahship of Jesus in the Qur’an, New Testament,… Read More ›
Author Dr. Louay Fatoohi, has recently announced that his book Jesus the Muslim Prophet: History Speaks of a Human Messiah Not a Divine is now permanently available online for free and easy access. The book is a detailed comparative study of the… Read More ›
I came across a very interesting book, during my on going investigation into early christian devotion to Jesus (p) by author David M. Lita, titled “Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God”. After checking the author credentials… Read More ›
“Jesus is a Jew teaching Judaism to other Jews..”
(Reza Aslan)
One of the most fascinating gospel passage to me is where Jesus cried for God’s help on the cross. It was supposedly Jesus’s last utterance and amazingly it is still preserved in his native tongue of Aramaic: ܐܰܠܳܗܝ ܐܰܠܳܗܝ ܠܡܳܢܳܐ ܫܒ݂ܰܩܬ݁ܳܢܝ ؟ Elāhi… Read More ›
Idolatry, one of the worst biblical sins: We read in Exodus 20:4 ;לֹֽ֣א תַֽעֲשֶׂ֨ה־לְךָ֥֣ פֶ֣֙סֶל֙ ׀ וְכָל־תְּמוּנָ֡֔ה אֲשֶׁ֤֣רבַּשָּׁמַ֣֙יִם֙ ׀ מִמַּ֡֔עַלוַֽאֲשֶׁ֥ר֩ בָּאָ֖֨רֶץ מִתַָּ֑֜חַתוַאֲשֶׁ֥֣ר בַּמַּ֖֣יִם ׀ מִתַּ֥֣חַתלָאָֽ֗רֶץ Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the… Read More ›
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