One of the earliest arguments of modern Islamic apologetics that I encountered is that the Quran talks about the development of the human embryo. It talks about the development of the embryo in detail and therefore only God could have authored the Quran. That’s the argument.
Category Archives: Apologetics
St. Cyprian and two kinds of Schism
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In my attempts to read the Church fathers and hunt for the mysterious Islamic Christians who don’t seem to exist, I’ve been reading the works of St. Cyprian of Carthage; a third century Church father who was martyred in 258 AD. He had to deal with the issue of the Novatian Schism.
The Mission of Pope Francis
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Pope Francis is an interesting character. He’s not a normal Pope. The Pope is the spiritual head of the Catholic Church but Pope Francis seems to assume another role. It took me a while to figure this out but I think I’ve finally found out where he’s coming from.
Islam vs. Baptism
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In November of last year I was honoured to be the best man at my former roommates’ wedding. Earlier this month, he and his wife welcomed their first child into this world. On Saturday the child was welcomed into God’s family through the sacrament of baptism. Baptism saves according to St. Peter and this child was saved when he was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. I was the godfather.
Muslim Apologists, Q, and the New Testament
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Here is a trend that I’ve noticed among Muslim apologists. They say that the New Testament is corrupted because it has late manuscripts, many variants, and other problems. Most can’t back this statement up. All Muslim apologists that I know who have gone the textual criticism route have abandoned it as they’ve realized it’s a dead end. Well, everyone except the infamous Ijaz Ahmad who was recently exposed for doxxing and using racial slurs against a Christian apologist. It should be noted that Ahmad has come out with material in regards to the crucifixion of Christ. I will be getting to that in my upcoming posts.
Muslims have to side with Paul over James in Acts 21
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As many of you know, I was privileged to be on a recent episode of Reason and Theology. What I discussed and refuted was the argument that the Church of Rome did not have a monarchial bishop until the mid-second century. I of course shredded the argument. In the weeks leading up to this episode I had written several articles refuting this dumb theory. I presented them on the show.
Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Terminology
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I recently read The Triads by Gregory Palamas. Gregory Palamas is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church who helped end a theological civil war in 14th century Byzantium. I sat down on Saturday and read the whole thing in the evening. It’s not that long but I was told by a fellow Catholic apologist that my version of the Triads was abridged.
King Philip IV of France was the founder of Protestantism
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When people talk about the reformation in the 16th century they’re eager to find photo-Protestants who lived in centuries prior who had similar ideas. The names that usually come up are Huss, Wycliffe, and Gottschalk. There have been attempts to make St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas into proto-Protestants but anyone familiar with their theology can debunk these claims in a second. So who was the true proto-Protestant?
I was on Reason and Theology
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On Saturday I made an appearance on the show Reason and Theology. They invited me on to talk about the early Roman episcopate. As some of you may know, there is a revisionist theory that there was no early monarchial bishop at the Church of Rome. I have written several articles in the last six weeks in support of this position. This was in preparation for the interview.
Babylon is Rome in 1 Peter 5
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There are those that try to deny that St. Peter was in Rome. They often point out that in St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans, dozens of names are mentioned but Peter isn’t. Now, the entire tradition of the Church has St. Peter in Rome. Is this a contradiction? Only if you want it to be. You can simply say that St. Peter wasn’t in the city of Rome when this was written.