I’ve made up a list of seven questions for educated and well read Muslims. They’re based on my research over the last several years. I think these are strong points that relate to Islamic historical and theological claims.
Category Archives: Church History
Muslims, does this verse teach the Papacy?
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Sometimes I wish that I lived in London so I could go to Speakers’ Corner and field test my arguments against Muslims. I know what I’m about to tell you has worked against Jehovah’s Witness’ who used to camp outside my apartment building when I lived downtown.
I Read Some 14th Century Byzantine Literature
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I recently ordered and read Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite by Gregory Palamas. For those who don’t know, Gregory Palamas is saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and probably their greatest theologian since the 1054 AD schism.
Quarantine Apologetics
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Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.
– Job 1:21
Forget the Crusade Nonsense and Grow Up
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I really hate talking about issues like this because I expect better reasoning from Muslims and even from secularists. Muslims know that their religion spread by the sword and offensive conquests so they try and do one of two things. The first one is to say that it was defensive and the second one is moral equivalence. How are their expansions equivalent? Well, we have the crusades. If a Muslim ever brings this up again, here is how to answer him. I recently had to do this to some Muslim on Twitter who tried to justify Islamic conquests and say that Christians did similar things.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem and Sola Scriptura
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Many Protestant scholars such as James White and William Webster have tried to prove the doctrine of Sola Scriptura from the Church Fathers. I’m unimpressed with a lot of the quotes that they provide. The quotes stress the authority of Scripture. I certainly believe in the authority of Scripture, just not in the same way that they do. There are only a couple quotes from the Church Fathers that I believe can be used to support this doctrine. One of them(and the best one in my opinion) comes from the great fourth century father St. Cyril of Jerusalem.
Interview With Derya Little
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On Thursday I had an interview with ex-Muslim turned Catholic Derya Little. There are a few reasons why I wanted to interview Little. The first was that I really enjoyed her book From Islam to Christ. I reviewed the book some time ago on this website.
Female Deacons or Female Demons?
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In the last few years there has been a surge in the demand for female deacons(or deaconesses) and surprisingly not just in the Catholic Church. I’ve read articles about certain Eastern and Oriental Orthodox jurisdictions that are experimenting with it. Liberal Protestant movements have been doing this for a long time and it has yielded anything but positive results.
Mary: Theotokos or Mother of a Prophet
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The Holy Theotokos
After contrasting the views of Zechariah in Surah 19 and the Gospel of Luke, we will now discuss the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the Christian tradition, the Virgin Mary is given the title Theotokos which literally translates as God bearer. In Greece to this day the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Theotokos. Members of the Eastern Orthodox Church who speak English as a first language refer to the Virgin Mary as Theotokos. An Arab friend of mine who was raised in the Antiochian Orthodox Church told me that in the Arabic liturgy they transliterate the Greek word into the prayers. The Russian Church refers to her as Bogoroditsa and I assume the other slavic churches use that or something similar. I’m not sure if the Georgians have their own word or use Theotokos. Greek Catholics use the word, and I would imagine that at least some Oriental Orthodox do as well.
The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ by Andrew Klavan
Book Review
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I listen to Andrew Klavan occasionally on his podcast. He’s part of Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire crew. He’s written many books but this book is about his faith journey from being a secular Jew who came to believe in Jesus Christ and is now an Evangelical.