As an apologist who deals with Islam, I believe that we should be careful about the arguments that we use against them. They should be thought out and well researched. In terms of those blog posts on Surah 5, they actually came after carefully researching the passage through Islamic commentaries and the historical context and even field testing them against Muslims. A good example would be to look at Protestant arguments against Catholicism. Here’s an example:
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.
Earlier this year, the Turkish Islamic scholar Mustafa Akyol came out with the book The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims. The book is interesting, I’ll say that much. I had meant to read it earlier but other things got in the way. I picked it up yesterday and finished it today and am now going to share some of my thoughts on the book.
Arius of Alexandria
On October 31, 2017, Protestants will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the “reformation”. Truth be told, it’s only the anniversary of Martin Luther posting his complaints of the door of the Castle Church. This event happened on October 31, 1517. It should be fair to point out that when the citizens of Germany woke up on the morning of November 1, 1517, they weren’t debating whether they should go to a Protestant Church since they didn’t exist at the time. Regardless, the reformation is erroneously fixed to this date in 1517 AD just like the Catholic/Greek Schism is erroneously dated to 1054 AD.
My non-Catholic Russian Bible containing the book of Sirach
Matt Slick is an extremely anti-Catholic polemicist. He claims to know a lot but whenever he debates a Catholic apologist he comes up short. This was the case with Mark Bonocore and Robert Sungenis. He claims that he’s studied what Catholics believe for years but I just don’t see that with his knowledge of Catholic theology and Church history.
Martin Luther – Founder of Protestantism
The traditional Protestant belief is that man is justified by faith alone and that one cannot lose their salvation. The Catholic Church rejected this belief as they believed it was not found in scripture or tradition.