Judas Maccabeus
Many people say that Hanukkah is the Jewish Christmas. I suppose for secular Jews it essentially has become that but for religious Jews it has a deeper meaning. What is that deeper meaning? Tomorrow Jews around the world will begin celebrating this holiday. What is it about and where did it come from?
It’s been about a month since the shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue. After that happened a friend of mine on social media wrote a post and said that the biggest antisemitism is saying that we shouldn’t preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jews. She said it in a very respectful way but that didn’t matter. Many Jews swarmed her page. The word antisemitic was thrown around multiple times. This one Jewess was viciously attacking me. Her arguments were so ridiculous that I just started calling her an antisemite because I simply stopped caring at that point.
In the early 1990’s Dr. Michael Brown and Rabbi Tovia Singer debated on the radio. The debate didn’t end well for Rabbi Singer and therefore he never mentions it. You can’t find it anywhere on his website. Now, Dr. Brown makes the debate available on his website. This is a clear testimony to who won the debate. Why would you try to hide it if you had won? Rabbi Singer makes all of his other debates available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-z4iEkSn0
I was recently watching a YouTube video. It was an apologetics lecture given by a prominent Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. In the question and answer period someone in the audience asked if they should accept support from Evangelicals who are hardcore Zionists. A legitimate question for the Jewish community I suppose. He said to accept their support but don’t go to events put on by CUFI and similar groups. He said that the state of Israel is there because God wants it to be there. I can only laugh at some statements.
I’ve been talking about Mohammed Hijab and Islam quite a bit lately so I thought I’d change it up and share some thoughts on some key issues. On Saturday I was at a function in my city. Most people at the function were from Eastern Europe, specifically Ukraine or Russia. It was quite an event. I had a good long discussion with an Orthodox priest that I knew. He knows that I’m Catholic and he told me that Catholics were hard to convert. He mentioned that it was easier to convert Episcopalians or another mainline Protestants. He mentioned that he’s only converted one Catholic in his whole life, and he’s not a young priest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BseoeKreBKc
I’ve been talking about the Wood vs. Hijab debate for quite a while. The debate is certainly leaving its mark on social media. Basically everyone is talking about how Mohammed Hijab engaged in the straw man Olympics and was disrespectful to David Wood. Hijab was very open about this. He said that he was showing no respect to Wood because of the disrespect that Wood has shown to Islam.
St. Athanasius – Defender Of The Incarnation
I’ve noticed a new trend in Islamic apologetics. It’s clever, I’ll admit that. I believe it started with Adnan Rashid in a debate that he had with James White a few years ago. I could be wrong about that but regardless of the origins, it’s the argument that matters. This is applied to both the Scripture and the Church fathers. I want to deal with the Church fathers specifically.
In my previous two posts on Mohammed Hijab, I marveled in his impressive speaking skill. He’s one of the best speakers that I’ve ever seen. If I were to look at all of the Christian and Muslim apologists on the planet and find the best speaker among all of them, I would give it to Mohammed Hijab. This is what makes him dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvB8alwJdYc
Trinity or Tawheed? A very important question. Recently David Wood and Mohammed Hijab debated this topic. In my last post, I briefly dealt with one of the key arguments of Mohammed Hijab. In this post, I will discuss the entire debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNMc0VTDUA&t=4579s
I recently watched the debate between David Wood and Mohammed Hijab about Trinity vs. Tawheed. A lot of arguments were raised by both sides but I want to deal with an argument that Mohammed Hijab presented. He presented a good argument and I believe it was a valid argument. Wood answered this but I don’t think his answer quite did the argument justice.