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.
Category Archives: Islam
Karacay Again; More Didache
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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:
Haqiqatjou, Karacay, and the Didache
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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.
Nabeel Qureshi vs. Paul Williams 15 years later
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Back in 2006, Nabeel Qureshi debated Paul Williams in a “converts debate”. Nabeel was the former Muslim and Williams the former Christian. At one point in the debate Williams stated that he was a former Christian apologist. That gave me a good chuckle; talk about a failed apologist. For those who don’t know, Williams is someone who has fallen in love with modern liberal Biblical scholarship.
Attention Muslims: James Endorses Paul
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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, Geography and Islam
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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.
Another Fourth Crusade Blunder
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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.
St. Robert Bellarmine, Peter Vermigli, and Muhammad
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I’ve been reading a lot of St. Robert Bellarmine lately thanks to the brilliant translating done by Ryan Grant at Mediatrix Press. I’ve been reading his book on Purgatory and think that it tells some pretty interesting things about Church history. I want to comment on one thing that he said and draw some other historical conclusions with other examples.
Peter’s Three Cities and Islam
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When you study the early Church, you find that Peter is affiliated with three cities. Ironically these three cities became the three early Patriarchates of the Church. These are Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria. Peter had a hand in the early stages of each Church.
All Muslims Should be Pro-Life
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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.