The Earliest Biography of Muhammad
In this day and age, books are readily available to us. We can go online and see what we need to read on a certain subject then go to Amazon, purchase the book, and it’ll be delivered to our front door. Pretty good deal, isn’t it?
A modern Passover Seder without the lamb – See Exodus 12
What was the religion of Jesus Christ? Most Christians will give one or two answers. Those answers are Judaism or Second Temple Judaism. The Muslim will say that Jesus practiced Islam. I believe that all three of these answers are incorrect. I won’t be dealing with the argument that Jesus was a Muslim but I will dispute the fact that Jesus practiced Judaism or Second Temple Judaism.
The IHOP in my city
On Sunday I slept in so I couldn’t go to the 7:15 am Low Mass at my Church. Instead I went to the 12:30 High Mass. It’s nice going to a High Mass every now and then. It’s nice hearing the choir, smelling incense and seeing people that don’t go to the Low Mass.
On November 24, 2016 I published a post called “The Extraordinary Adventures of Kristen Scharold” which was a response to an article that Kristen Scharold had written in the New York Times about how she had been a devout Evangelical all of her life and is now in a homosexual relationship with another woman. Both of these women claim to be Christian. The post received no comments. It didn’t stand out in terms of the amount of views it got either. That is, until recently.
The Muqaddimah
One of my hobbies is reading what classical Islamic scholars said about Christianity. Recently I’ve been reading Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah which is a famous work that one could probably pick up a local bookstore; if not it can easily be ordered online. What I read is quite shocking. A while back, I wrote a few posts on how the Quran gets the Trinity wrong. Although that error is a big deal, it’s bush league compared to what Khaldun writes about Christianity, Judaism and the Bible.
Women from Jerusalem
In the past, I’ve written several posts on the theory that Muhammad is predicted in the Song of Solomon. I did a post about the context of the book and how it promotes the drinking of wine in a positive way. I looked at the word that is supposedly Muhammad’s name and showed that those who know Hebrew don’t spell Muhammad’s name that way. That includes Muslims and Quran translations into Hebrew.
A passage that most of my readers are probably familiar with is Deuteronomy 18 which gives a prophecy of a Prophet like Moses to come. In the past, I’ve written about the Muslim interpretation of this passage and talked about why it can’t be Muhammad. Here’s that post:
On the morning of February 11, 2013 I was pulling into the parkade where I worked at the time. I had just received a text message from my mother telling me of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Before I got out of my car to go to work, I immediately looked up the age of Cardinal Walter Kasper on my iPhone. His 80th birthday was three weeks away and he’d be 80 before the conclave started. I felt a huge sigh of relief come over me. Did the Pope wait this long intentionally so that Kasper could not have been eligible? In his last book he talks about how he had decided to resign in the summer. Did he wait until February to announce this so that Kasper would not become Pope? We can only speculate.
On Saturday I was at my old roommates place and we decided to watch a pilot of a Netflix original program. We decided on Jessica Jones. It only took 20 minutes for the homosexual propaganda to come full force. There were these two homosexual women who were together. One was a lawyer named Jeri and she and her secretary named Pam show a homosexual “love” interest in each other.
Mecca – The city where Tawheed was invented
In debating with Protestants, a doctrine that usually comes up is Sola Scriptura, aka Scripture alone. In debating with Muslims the concept of Tawheed vs Trinitarianism comes up. For those who don’t know, Tawheed is the word for Islamic Unitarianism. As a Catholic, I believe both Sola Scriptura and Tawheed to be false doctrines and ironically their apologists make the same logical flaw in defending them.