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Clear searchConstantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
What Really Happened at Nicaea? Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die The Council of Nicaea has become a screen upon which almost every conspiracy about early Christianity is projected. Constantine invented the T…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…ammad can be made to resemble someone mentioned in Scripture. The question is whether the biblical author identifies a future figure by characteristics which Muhammad actually fulfils. Three standards will govern the examination: Immediate context: words receive their meaning fro…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…y” in Surah 4:157. Islam preserves the title but gives it little explanatory content. The biblical record supplies the history and theology from which the title comes. Jesus was cut off Jesus was publicly crucified under Pontius Pilate. This is established by the early New Testam…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…swers do not prove the whole system. They clear away five common criticisms so the actual biblical questions can be heard. Criticism 1: “Dispensationalism was invented by Darby” John Nelson Darby played a major role in systematising and spreading nineteenth-century dispensational…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…t calls him a prophet and places him among the righteous. Nor need a Muslim deny that the biblical covenant passed through Isaac in some historical sense. The broader Islamic claim is that Abraham's legacy was never confined to Israel. Ishmael was also a prophet, helped Abraham r…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ratives The Qur’an did not emerge in a cultural vacuum. It appeared in a world alive with biblical names, Jewish interpretation, Christian preaching, sectarian disagreement, devotional legend and stories carried across languages by travellers, merchants, clergy and ordinary belie…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…al fiction, not the Jesus presented across the Gospels. If he leaves because thousands of biblical manuscripts have been presented as thousands of corruptions, while every form of Qur’anic textual plurality is classified as perfect preservation, he has been taught two standards r…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…scourse is rooted in the land and institutions of Israel. Clue two: "elect" already has a biblical history The word "elect" does not arrive in Matthew without a history. In the Greek Old Testament and the KJV's rendering of Israel's Scriptures, election language can refer to the…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…wed upon Jesus, just as the Torah was given to Moses and the Qur'an to Muhammad. The four canonical Gospels, by contrast, are narratives about Jesus written by later authors. Paul's letters are later still and cannot simply be identified with a book given to Jesus. An informed Mu…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…verturned its apparent defeat through the resurrection. The four Gospel accounts All four canonical Gospels devote substantial attention to Jesus' arrest, condemnation, crucifixion, death and burial (Matthew 26-27; Mark 14-15; Luke 22-23; John 18-19). This should be stated carefu…
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