Dr. James R. White of Alpha and Omega Ministries just gave two excellent lectures in Texas. The first addresses the topic of the former dean of Liberty Seminary (and current professor at Arlington Baptist College) Ergun Caner, who billed himself as a former jihadist who was born in Turkey, when in actuality, he was born…
Dr. James R. White has posted an interesting video concerning the textual transmission (and textual revisions) of the Qur’an. This is a very helpful and enlightening video that includes, if I was listening well, information that sheds light on the fact that the Qur’an was not fully written in Arabic. This is interesting to say…
In part 4 of this series, I mentioned the Islamic teaching of “tanzih” or rather, Allah’s “ultra-transcendence” whereby NOTHING in our human experience can explain him. In mentioning this, I stated that if this were true, then the Qur’an cannot be what it claims to be, a positive revelation of Allah and hence, it is self…
Keith Thompson from Answering Islam has put together a nice little piece titled; “Bart Ehrman: A Hero for Islam?” In this article, Thompson addresses the Islamic use of Bart Ehrman (the Muslims will often use Ehrman’s books as a source to claim New Testament manuscript corruption), and then turns the tables and uses Bart Ehrman…
When those of the Islamic faith attack the Tri-unity of the Christian God-head, in essence, he or she attacks the whole of human experience. This many seem at first like a nonsensical and unfounded claim, but, it is worthy to consider nonetheless. The argument is as follows: the Christian Triune God of the Scriptures is…
One of the most often used arguments against the Christian position by those of the Islamic faith is found in the New Testament documents themselves. The lynch-pin of the Islamic argument is that Jesus is not God or the God-man, the second person of the Trinity. Rather, Islam declares that Jesus was simply a prophet of…
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