On Saturday I did a show with fellow Catholic apologist Elijah Yasi. He specializes in a book called the Relatio by Bishop Gasser. I had known about this document for years but hadn’t read it until the last few months. It was part of Erick Ybarra’s top 10 books on the papacy that he recommends.
We Christians always accuse Muslims of double standards. Applying one set of standards to our faith while applying a different set to theirs. Well, I’ve been listening to some old stuff and of course arguing with people online and it just came to me. They have absolutely zero standards. It’s not just a lesser standard. There are no standards whatsoever.
As we Christian apologists know, Muslim apologists blame St. Paul for making Christianity the way it is today. St. Paul is responsible for promoting the death, resurrection, and deity of Christ. It’s actually quite amazing when you think about it. A Jew, probably educated similarly to a modern rabbi today is able to subvert the whole movement from Tawheed to Trinitarianism, escape from death to death and resurrection and the destruction of the true Injeel.
I hope that all my readers had a great Easter weekend. I had a great Easter vigil celebrating the resurrection of our Lord. It brought me a lot of peace in this time of chaos. I also want to congratulate all of those who entered the Church. I’m honoured to have you as brothers and sisters in Christ.
I was recently on John Fisher 2.0’s channel to debunk a common myth about the crusades. That is, when the Crusaders entered the city of Jerusalem they butchered every Muslim in the city. This myth is thrown around and is accepted uncritically.
In my last post I talked about the sloppy research of one Burhan Karacay. He said that the Trinitarian formula had been inserted into the Didache. Naturally no evidence was provided but I’m going to give reasons as to why it is genuine. Here is the passage in question from the Didache:
It really bothers Muslims that they can’t prove that Christ, his disciples, or his blessed mother were Muslims. Of course they claim that they were but there is no proof. There also isn’t proof of an early Islamic Christian community in the first century. While we know of many heretical groups in existence in the first couple centuries of the Church, there is no community that is Islamic.
Modern Muslim apologists are eager to point out the connection with Islam and Jewish Christianity which died out. What they don’t do is actually look at how these early Jewish Christians lived, practiced their faith and what they believed. The big portion of Scripture is Acts 21. It’s the big encounter between their “buddy” James and their “enemy” Paul.
St. Paul The Apostle
As we know, Muslims like to blame St. Paul for Christianity turning out how it did. In other words, if the documents that tell us about Jesus Christ and the early Church tell us something different than what a 7th century illiterate Arab from the Hijaz tells us, St. Paul is the culprit. This wasn’t always the case. Early Muslims didn’t talk negatively about St. Paul. It took a few centuries to put this narrative in place.
The fourth crusade is the crusade where the crusaders sacked Constantinople and end up occupying it for half a century. It’s a very low point in relations with the Greek Church and only added fuel to the fire of the Humbert vs. Cerularius episode in 1054. I’ve been reading primary sources on this crusade and it turns out there is another blunder that the crusaders made.