There was a recent debate between Adnan Rashid and Samuel Green on salvation in Christianity and Islam. Samuel Green was technically representing the Christian side, though Green isn’t a Catholic so his theology is somewhat off though obviously closer to my position than the position of Adnan Rashid.
Category Archives: Church History
Surah 2:79 and Bible Corruption
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Sacred Scripture
If you’ve ever had dialogue with a Muslim on religion, you’ll find out very quickly that he believes that the previous Scriptures are corrupted and unreliable. Sometime before the Quran was revealed the Scriptures got corrupted. Where and when did they get corrupted? If you ask five different Muslims, you’re likely to get five different answers, unless they tell you that they don’t know. The interesting thing is to look in the holy book and see what it says.
Why is Steve Ray Talking About Islam?
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I’m a huge fan of Steve Ray. He’s a very good apologist, especially when it comes to the early Church fathers. I’ve read several of his books including his book on his conversion story and his evaluation of the Papacy. Here he is at Franciscan University of Steubenville talking about Islam. For those who don’t know FUS is one of the biggest Catholic education centres in America so this isn’t some minor audience. It’s a group of University students at a Catholic University. The talk is also recorded and put on the Steubenville YouTube channel so it’s a huge Catholic audience.
Jesus the Nazarene – Fake Prophecy or Beautiful Connection Between Testaments?
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Nazareth
And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.
– Matthew 2:23
Did Jesus Claim to be the Prophet from Deuteronomy 18?
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Christ the King
When reading the Gospels, we see that Jesus Christ made great claims about himself. He referred to himself as many things but the question is, did he claim to be the Prophet like Moses in Deuteronomy 18? Muslims like to point to Muhammad and say that he is the Prophet of Deuteronomy 18. The truth is, when we look at the words of Christ and His apostles, there is no way that this passage could refer to Muhammad, Joseph Smith, or Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. If anyone professes to believe in Christ, you have to follow what He says; so what does He say about this issue?
The Greek Literate Tradition in East and West Contra Islam
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My Icon of St. Clement of Rome purchased at Kiev Perchersk Lavra
In my last post I talked about how Christianity was born in the Greek literate tradition and was able to record the beliefs of the earliest Christians in their sacred texts known as the New Testament. At the same time I contrasted this with Islam which with minimal exceptions has no documents until the 9th century. At this point the Muslims probably realized that they couldn’t compete with a literate tradition in the long run. Either that or some of the literate tradition of the areas that they conquered started to rub off on them. After all, just because they didn’t accept the Christian religion in areas they were occupying, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t accept other cultural practices and customs and wouldn’t contradict Islam.
How a Muslim Helped Christianity But Not Islam
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Dhul Qarnayn – Alexander the Great
When one studies ancient history, we see that the Greeks and the Persians were always at war, similar to how the English and French were always at war during the Middle Ages. This happened from about 500 BC to the the Arab Conquest of Persia in the 7th Century.
Refuting Gary Matson on Joseph of Arimathea
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There’s a fellow named Gary Matson who runs a website. I’ve been reading this website for a while but have refrained from referencing it by name. He’s an ex-Lutheran turned agnostic who now possesses extreme hostility to the Christian faith. In a previous post, he said the following:
What Muslims and Christine Blasey Ford Can Learn From Archbishop Vigano
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As everyone knows the Kavanaugh hearings are all over the news. The big controversy is that three women have accused Kavanaugh of illegal sexual acts. The most prominent of these is Christine Blasey Ford who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault. She said the following:
China Defeats the Pope! Imagine if Henry IV Were Alive Today!
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October 9, 1958 was a very sad day for the Catholic Church. It was the day that Pope Pius XII died. Toward the end of October 1958, Pope John XXIII was elected and things have only gone downhill from there in terms of the Papacy. Whoever thought that communism ended in 1991 wasn’t paying attention as over a billion Chinese citizens are still subject to it.