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.
Calling All Muslim Apologists: Three Debates I’d Like to See
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After watching the debate between Shabir Ally and David Wood, I started thinking about what kind of debates I’d like to see Muslims engage in. The more debates that I thought of, the more I noticed something interesting. In these ideal debates, not one of them was with an apologist defending Christianity. The more I though about it, every Muslim debate that I’ve seen was with an apologist defending the Christian viewpoint. Here are the three debates that I’d like to see.
Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? David Wood vs. Shabir Ally
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYL5TZ9jJqg
On March 3, 2018, David Wood and Shabir Ally debated on the topic Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? For those who don’t know, Shabir Ally takes a very unorthodox position on this issue. It’s a very modern position not found in the classical Islamic period. While most Muslims would say that someone else was made to look like Jesus, Shabir Ally has another theory. Jesus was placed on the cross, left to die, taken down, received no medical attention, then is assumed into heaven from the tomb. Apologists such as Yusuf Ismail, Sami Zaatari, and Zakir Hussain have all debated this topic and do not accept this theory. Instead they go with a more traditional substitution theory.
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.
Paul Williams Refutes Himself
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgPBcJ0c4zQ
When someone like Paul Williams decides to believe in an ahistorical religion and then become an apologist for it, he runs into problems. I used to comment frequently on his blog but ceased doing so for several reasons. However, I do check it out on occasion and I recently found some interesting things.
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.