Gideon With His Soldiers
This post is a response to an online atheist blogger named Melissa. She posted a video about American Christians supporting the war in Iraq and how since Iraqi’s aren’t Christian, going over and killing them will rob them of any chance of salvation.
Peter the Venerable – Twelfth Century Christian Scholar of Islam
With over a billion muslims in the world today, it is not uncommon to come across muslims to dialogue with. I have been to two muslim countries as well as muslim majority regions of other countries. Islamic apologetics is a big field but one does not need to study it in any great depth to know the most important issue in talking with them. In fact, most professional apologists don’t know this trick.
When one looks at the two largest religions in the world, we see that one is historical and one is not. What do I mean by that? Both can easily be traced from their origins in history but what I refer to is the scripture.
The Bible is a historical document. It starts with the Creation, goes through early civilization, the history of Abraham and the descendants of his Covenant. The Life of Moses is covered in detail as the Israelites leave Egypt and go into the Promised Land. After the conquest of the Holy Land, the Kingdom of Israel is set up and the Temple is built. More Prophets come until the time of Christ. One cannot deny that it is a historical book.
St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt
Over the last 24 hours, we have heard endless talk of the Paris attacks. Many in the West ask themselves and their fellow countrymen what the future holds for their nation. They see Islam as an invading force imposing itself on the modern secular democratic western culture. Deep down, they know that a weak secular West won’t win against Islam. They are correct. It won’t.
St. John of Damascus – The saint who wrote the first Christian treatise against Islam.
Ahmed Deedat is certainly the most influential muslim apologist in the last century. That doesn’t mean he’s the best as he certainly was not, but he’s the most influential and most popular. He talks in sound bites and relies on presentation as opposed to substance.
Deedat was born in 1918 in India, which was under British control at that time. He was an apologist for most of his life until he suffered a stroke in the 1990’s and was unable to continue in this profession. He died in 2005.