In case you’re not aware of Matthew Vines and what he does, he’s the founder and Executive Director of The Reformation Project. The Reformation Project is an organization that tries to get Churches to collapse on homosexuality and accept the “LGBTQ community” and agenda.
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart Ehrman
A Review
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Bart Ehrman has another book out entitled: The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World. It’s essentially Bart Ehrman’s latest attack on the Christian faith. It’s a history of the early Church. More accurately, it’s a liberal history of the early Church.
Muslims on the Crucifixion – A New Argument
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0-7D75ftmk
Shabir Ally’s argument that Jesus was put on the cross but didn’t die doesn’t seem to be attracting many supporters. He seems to be the only Muslim apologist arguing like this these days. However, there are some new slick Muslim arguments against the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. For those Christians out there who don’t know, Muslims deny the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Even atheist, agnostic, and Jewish historians and scholars will say that Jesus died by crucifixion. Even better, we have the entire New Testament narrative from the first century which gives us a clear unambiguous testimony to the crucifixion of Jesus.
How to Defend Christianity against Islam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_TKTxDmuWA
Yesterday a friend of mine was over at my house. We were discussing how to engage Muslims in debate and about how to bring them into the Christian faith. She said something that I hear a lot of believers say. Something very unfortunate. She said that she would try to show them that Islam is incompatible with democracy. Sadly, about 80% of Christians in the West who engage Islam fall into this trap. I’ve even heard apologists like James White and David Wood make this mistake. Robert Spencer pretty much bases his entire anti-Islamic career on this error.
Muslims and God’s Law
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There is a recent tactic that I’ve noticed about Muslim apologists. They’re trying to make the Bible into a combination of Christianity mixed with Islam. This is done by saying Christianity is the religion of Paul while the religion of the Old Testament, Jesus, James and the other disciples is the religion of Islam. Of course, these Muslims rejects many things from the Old Testament, Jesus, and the Apostles and naturally if you show these verses to a Muslim they’re simply “corruptions” of the supposed “original message” of Jesus and other Biblical authors.
Bart Ehrman and the Temple of Allat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59txpioPYJI
Recently, I wrote about revisionist theories of Islamic origins. Ironically, this weekend I started to read Bart Ehrman’s new book. I’m about halfway done so expect a review soon. Ehrman’s book got me thinking more about Islamic revisionist history. Why is that? Doesn’t Ehrman only attack the Christian faith? In the intro of the book, Ehrman talks about how Christians in the late fourth Century destroyed the Temple of Allat in Palmyra, which is in modern day Syria.
Pedophilia for Best Picture?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ10d_nkr4Y
I have said more than once on this blog that the left is the biggest danger to the Christian faith. This year at the Oscars, there is a movie promoting pedophilia entitled Call Me By Your Name. In 2005 when homosexual “marriage” passed in my country. I wasn’t happy but I thought that at least this charade was over. Eventually this trans garbage come of the scene with Caitlyn Jenner. Do you think this will stop here? Not a chance. If you understand the left, Original Sin, and Divine Judgment, it all makes sense.
Who Was Caliph Abdul Malik?
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Possibly Caliph Abdul Malik depicted on a coin
In the last five to ten years, revisionist theories about Islamic origins have trickled down to the popular level. They’ve usually only been in academia but now their scholarship can easily be found in books published by mainline publishers and not only by a particular University Press. The reason that these theories exist, is because of the huge gap between the life of Muhammad and the first Islamic details about him. Ibn Ishaq’s biography of Muhammad dates back to Ibn Hisham’s redaction, two centuries after Muhammad’s death. The canonical Hadith collections take another half century before they are put into circulation. In other words, sources about Islam are 200-300 years after Muhammad lived. These are extremely late sources.
Jews For Judaism Needs to Shut Down
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As an apologist, one of my objectives is to deal with other apologists. I encounter the work of many people and groups. One group is a Jewish group called Jews for Judaism which is run by Rabbi Michael Skobac. They arose shortly after the founding of Jews for Jesus to counter their missionary efforts. At this point in time, I would say that their organization no longer serves a purpose.
Matthew Vines vs Sean McDowell
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Last night my city got 35 cm of snow on top of the large amount that we already had. That’s part of living in the Canadian prairies I guess. The bad part is that you have to spend hours shoveling snow. Luckily I had the audio of the Matthew Vines vs Sean McDowell debate on my iPod. I had always wanted James White to dialogue with Vines since he made a 5 hour podcast rebuttal when Matthew Vines put his initial video out but sadly White seams to have lost his debating savvy which is shown by his recent Muslim debates. However, Sean McDowell was perfect for this debate. I initially thought that he was too soft but then I realized that it was all part of his tactic. If he had been rock hard, Vines would have become rigid and not much dialogue would have gone on, only cheap point scoring tactics.