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An Absolute Must Read
01/31/2005 - James White
This article from the New York Sun reminds us of how much we take the freedom to speak the truth about Islam for granted, and how these Muslims hate the gospel of Jesus Christ with a passion most do not begin to understand. The image to the right is part of one of the banners on this website. Note the x'd out cross. Take the time to go back and listen to the Dividing Line we did with "Peter," a former Muslim who came to know the true Jesus. Here's the archived show.UPDATE: According to Jihad Watch, the sheep in the banner picture is having its throat slit, and the Arabic inscription has the sheep saying, "Don't I have seven lives?"
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Islamic Apologetics and New Testament Transmission (#12)
01/29/2005 - James White
We continue with out response to Saifullah and Azmy on the subject of the transmission of the New Testament. It has been a while (15 days to be exact, my apologies) since our last installment. In case you have forgotten where we were, here is the last portion. Our Islamic authors are providing a massive string of quotations from James Bentley's 1986 work, Secrets of Mount Sinai: The Story of Finding the World's Oldest Bible--Codex Sinaiticus (Doubleday). Their purpose, as we noted, is to note the existence of textual variation in hand-written documents, and thereby prove the Bible has been corrupted in its transmission (in contrast with the Qur'an). The next section they cite from Bentley is in reference to John 21:25, which Tischendorf felt had been added by a later hand in Codex Sinaiticus (a). Bentley wrote: ...[Click Here to Continue Reading]
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This One Hits Close To Home
01/16/2005 - James White
And yet another reason to avoid PalTalk like the plague.13:35:33 - Category: Islam - Link to this article -
Islamic Apologetics and New Testament Transmission (#11)
01/13/2005 - James White
We noted in our last installment the presentation of twenty some odd pages of citation regarding the textual integrity of a (Codex Sinaiticus) by our Islamic authors. They tip their hand (as if we were any longer wondering about their bias) when they introduce this material, taken from James Bentley's Secrets of Mount Sinai: The Story of Codex Sinaiticus, by saying, "The proof of the lack of textual integrity of the Gospels themselves get more tangible and touchable if one reads" Bentley's book. I.e., once again, "textual variation in hand written manuscripts means there is no textual integrity in the Gospels." We have noted the less-than-robust form of argumentation underlying our authors' presentation in previous portions of this series. But we turn now to offering some comments on Bentley's material. Given the context provided by our authors themselves, we will assume that they would find any discussion of textual variation, etc., to be supportive of their views. ...[Click Here to Continue Reading]
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Islamic Apologetics and New Testament Transmission (#10)
01/03/2005 - James White
For the past few weeks we have been examining an article posted early in December embodying an Islamic attack upon the Christian Scriptures (and, by so doing, a defense of the Qur'an), co-authored by Saifullah & Azmy. One of the reasons I took up the challenge of the article was that the article includes twenty-two pages of a book on the subject of Codex Sinaiticus (a). The obvious intent of the authors is to present this information as an objection against the transmission of the biblical text over time. As we have noted, the means of transmission of the text of the Bible reflects a completely different methodology than that centralized, and in fact, militaristic origins of the Qur'an. Rather than a single, powerful organization overseeing the text (and hence becoming the ultimate authority in transmission: the text can carry only that amount of certainty as one gives to that controlling organization), the text of the Bible, and most especially, the New Testament, was promulgated far and wide due to the fact that the Christian faith spread through the preaching of its message, not through the power of army and sword.
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