Can Mohammed Hijab and Company Beat Matthew Vines?

Islamic apologist Mohammed Hijab

I’m currently reading through the book Our God is Triune.  It’s a collection of essays from a handful of Calvinist scholars who make a strong case for the deity of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity.  Expect a review of this book soon.  Reading this book gives me a suggestion for Muslim apologists.

Whenever Muslim apologists engage with Christians, they seem to quote the Bible.  Mohammed Hijab quoted the Bible to David Wood.  Zakir Hussain has tried to prove that Muhammad was foretold in the Bible through certain prophecies.  Adnan Rashid is quoting it more and more as well.  I must say that they’ve progressed beyond the rhetorical soundbite days of Ahmed Deedat.

Still, I’ve noticed something else.  In most or almost all of the debates with these three apologists,  there is no cross-examination.  Cross-examination is where you can see if your arguments will stand up to scrutiny.  In a debate where each side gets a finite amount of rebuttals, it’s easy to dodge issues.  Zakir Hussain and Mohammed Hijab both did this in their debates with David Wood.

Now, I want to give the Muslims a chance to see if their arguments can hold water.  Since they don’t seem to want to do cross-examination, I challenge them to write a book of the Biblical caliber of Our God is Triune.  If their arguments are truly Biblical, they’ll be able to go back to the original Greek and Hebrew, historical contexts, deal with traditional objections and many other things.

If these six scholars can produce a book like Out God is Triune, then certainly Muslims should at least be able to do this for the doctrine of Tawheed.  They could also do it for other things like Islamic theology, prophecies of Muhammad in the Bible, and what happened to Jesus Christ at the end of his ministry.

I received Our God is Triune a few days ago in the mail.  While I’m only about 100 pages in, my jaw is dropping at the impressive content.  It’s extremely in-depth.  It deals with the Old Testament in great detail in dealing with the doctrine of the Trinity.  This isn’t the kind of scholarship where you can just cite the shema and scream ‘one god’ over and over again while ignoring the brilliant arguments in favor of the Trinity.  This is what Jews for Judaism does and that is one of the many reasons why their organization is apologetically bankrupt and needs to shut down as I’ve stated in the past.

Most of Islamic apologetics seems to be oral.  It comes in debate format or dawah lectures.  There are very few full length books out there defending Islam.  There are a few booklets but in terms of books, there isn’t much.  Mustafa Akyol gave it his best shot when he wrote a book on the Muslim Jesus.  I know that mainline publishers likely won’t touch Muslim apologetics but there must be a dawah institute somewhere that’ll publish material.

Muslims need to put their exegesis and apologetics into book form.  Our God is Triune is an impressive piece of work.  Muslims, can you match it?

If Muslims need one more motivator, I can give one.  Homosexual apologists like Matthew Vines, Justin Lee, and James Brownson publish popular and scholarly books, supposedly defending their position from the Scriptures.  Muslims – you don’t want the homosexuals beating you on in terms of Biblical arguments and scholarly exegesis?  Do you?