A Response to Abdullah from the UK: Part I

I know, I know, I started this in December of 2004. I continue with my response to Saifullah & Azmy’s article on the transmission of the text of the New Testament, focusing upon their almost plagiaristically long citation of Bentley’s work on Sinaiticus (see the 23 previous installments for background details). Bentley writes, It must not be supposed from these

   I continue with my review of, and response to, Ali Ataie’s article, Can Paul Be Trusted? Mr. Ataie continues:    Not unlike the Christian missionaries of today who travel into Muslim lands dressed in Muslim garb, Paul admits that he employs the use of deception to catch fish for Christ–becoming a Jew for Jews and a Gentile for Gentiles, that he

   On Thursday’s Dividing Line, Dr. White made an important point that I would like to briefly underscore. He mentioned the fact that there are those who might fear witnessing to Muslims because they seem so set in their religion, and often appear to be very militant about their views. Islam is often portrayed as a “hard” religion to evangelize, and

The answer, of course, is “no.” But how would you respond to the bright-eyed, confident, convinced Islamic college student who told you that surely Muhammad’s name does appear in the Bible, and the renowned Bible scholar Ahmed Deedat had proven it to be so? Dr. Bassim Gorial gave me permission to post material from my last appearance in the Jesus

It is truly hard not to laugh out loud at this one. Someone on Twitter sent me this link this morning. I have become accustomed to the “we can’t argue with you, we are clueless about history and logic, but we can make outrageous claims and get our fellow jihadis to think we are brave” attitude of certain Muslims on

The earliest Muslims such as Ibn Abbas used the sources at their disposal. They looked at the literal text of a part of that verse, but only a part, and concluded that two things were being denied: first, that Jesus was killed by his enemies; and second, that he was hung on a cross.    We can see that Shabir’s position