In a recent debate with David Wood in London Islamic apologist Adnan Rashid made some pretty outlandish claims regarding the New Testament. Here is my analysis and rebuttal.
Here is a small video version of my opening statement. By using the pause button you should be able to follow my opening statement pretty easily. I hope this is useful to those listening live (or, I would guess, for those who listen later as well!).
Started off with a discussion from the London Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 14, on “Saving Faith,” and then moved to a review of two Islamic videos, one critiquing Dr. David Wood, and the other a lecture from Dr. Ali Ataie. A fair amount of discussion of soteriology early on, and trinitarian and incarnational theology toward the latter portions of
I hurry to finish my response to the article published by Dr. Shabir Ally shortly after our debate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in early October. This is the fourth, and thankfully, final portion of my response. Dr. Ally continued: James was clearly in a bind. He could not answer my points, and I had answered all
We hope to get our own version of this posted eventually, but here’s the MDI version for your enjoyment and encouragement. Note to Ergun Caner: see? When you debate in a mosque, it really is not that difficult to get video recordings! (For those who don’t get that, go back two years on the blog and you’ll find all you
Following the debate in Seattle I invested some time in responding to some post-debate “chatter,” you might call it, in the form of comments from Shabir Ally regarding the topics we discussed during the debate (which is now available in mp3 format, and Lord willing, in DVD format very soon). In any case, I have not been able to do
Our brothers and sisters, so often persecuted in Islamic lands, are supposed to be protected by Islamic authorities due to their status as dhimmis. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2003), Dhimmi Non-Musilm under the protection of Muslim law. A covenant of protection was made with conquered “Peoples of the Book,” which included Jews, Christians, Sabaeans, and sometimes Zoroastrians
Somone referred me to a feud between popular TV eschatologist Hal Lindsey (yes, I remember taking a standardized achievement test in my senior year in High School long ago and reading his Late Great Planet Earth between segments of the test) and TBN’s Jan and Paul Crouch. Here’s a letter from Lindsey to TBN, here’s another story on it. Seems
The next variant noted by Bentley in reference to Codex Sinaiticus (a) is that found in Luke 24:51. The original reading of a does not have the phrase “and was carried up into heaven.” D likewise omits the phrase, as does a wide spectrum of Latin sources and the Sinaitic Syriac. The 25th ed. of the Nestle-Aland did not place
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