Abd Al-Jabbar
What does 21st century Islamic apologetics look like? It’s essentially just quoting liberals. There’s nothing Islamic about it. Now, what did Islamic apologetics look like in the 11th century? What type of apologetics would St. Peter Damian or St. Anselm of Canterbury have to deal with? The answer might surprise you.
Critique of Christian Origins by Abd Al-Jabbar
I’ve got to give credit to Brigham Young University. They have a good Arabic program and from this program they have something called the Islamic Translation Series. Medieval Islamic Arabic works are translated into English. The publication produces a parallel Arabic text and much commentary. It’s actually a very well done set of books. I certainly plan on buying more though they’re not the cheapest books around.
Believe it or not, I actually enjoy studying the life of Martin Luther. I’m big into Church history and obviously he’s one of the most influential people in Church history whether you think he was right or wrong.
I saw about two dozen of these
Great Falls Montana is only a short drive from my city in Canada. I can be there in a few hours. I drove down there the morning of the fourth and happened to see more fireworks than I have in my life a hundred times over. I was thoroughly impressed. American patriotism is something that I’ve never seen rivaled.
After Mecca had fallen to the Muslims, Allah “revealed” Surah 9:29 to Muhammad. What does Muhammad do at this point? He rallies 30,000 men and marches them north of Medina to Tabuk in an attempt to engage the Romans. The Romans didn’t send an army to engage Muhammad. According to Ibn Kathir, they stayed there 20 days then went back to Medina. Ibn Kathir actually has a good summary of his events in his section on Surah 9:29.
From about 2008 to 2014 I was the ultimate Dennis Prager fan. I had read his first five books and listened to all three hours of his radio show every day for years. A while ago I posted a video by Theodore Shoebat where he compiles a bunch of pro-homosexuality statements by Prager while he was being interviewed by homosexual Dave Rubin.
The vast majority of Jews today support the state of Israel. However, the reasons differ quite a bit. The movement that made the modern state of Israel was 19th century secular nationalism. To this day, Jews that are secular support it as a safe place for Jews to live. There are some ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose the state of Israel since they claim that a Jewish state can only be established as a Torah based theocracy. There are some religious Jews who support the state of Israel but think its not part of the Messianic puzzle. That’s the view of Rabbi Asher Meza.
This weekend I was doing a lot of reading and I realized something discouraging. It’s not enough to make me give up, if anything I’m going to try that much harder. Any Christian apologist who deals with Islam knows that Islamic apologetics is essentially using double standards which include quoting liberals ad nauseam. The Gospel of John becomes either super useful or super corrupted depending on what topic you’re trying to argue.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Like the rest of the Bible, Muslims have a rocky relationship with the Gospel of John. If a verse from John supports a Christian doctrine, it’s worthless. If it supports an Islamic teaching, then it becomes super reliable. Imagine going up to someone saying that half the Bible supports my religion.
I don’t want both
How true is the Bible according to Islam? Islam has always had a love-hate relationship with the Bible. However if I had to but the Islamic view of the Bible into one sentence I would simply say this: The Bible is as true as Islam allows it to be.