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Clear searchChristianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
The Sum of These Things Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the h…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
The Daniel Dilemma The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell Islam calls Jesus the Messiah. It also denies that He was crucified. Centuries before Muhammad, however, the book of Daniel described an anointed figure who would be “cut off”, followed by t…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…dgement, mercy, faith, and obedience. The decisive difference is the cross. The scales in Islamic judgement The Qur'an repeatedly presents a weighing on the Day of Judgement. Surah 21:47 says that scales of justice will be established and not even the weight of a mustard seed ove…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…d Jesus Really Die? The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an Christianity and Islam cannot both be correct about the death of Jesus. The Gospel declares that Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate, died, was buried and rose bodily from the dead. His death is not a p…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…traces the promise through Jacob, Israel, Judah and David until it reaches Jesus Christ. Islam presents a different Abrahamic framework. The Qur'an associates Abraham and Ishmael with the House at Mecca, while later Muslim tradition predominantly identifies Ishmael as the son Ab…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
Not Just a Prophet The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels Islam honours Jesus in ways which Christians should acknowledge accurately. The Qur'an calls Him the Messiah, describes Him as a word from God, affirms His virgin birth and attributes extrao…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…aracter is revealed by what it does when the beloved is undeserving and the cost is real. Islam and Christianity both speak of divine mercy, forgiveness and love. A fair comparison cannot begin by pretending that the Qur'an presents Allah as merciless or that Muslims worship a de…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
Is the Qur'an a Miracle? Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation Christians are frequently placed on the defensive. Has the Bible been corrupted? Did Jesus really claim to be God? Was He actually crucified? Has the d…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…ing" and repeatedly speaks of those whom Allah loves (Surahs 11:90; 85:14; 2:195; 3:159). Islamic theology does not ordinarily teach that Allah was deficient before creation or that he needed creatures in order to acquire an attribute. A Muslim may argue that Allah's attributes a…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…Acts upon the clay figures ↓ The figures become living birds The story is much older than Islam. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is ordinarily assigned to the second century, although its manuscript history is complex. In 2024 scholars published a fourth- or fifth-century Greek papy…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
The Injeel Problem Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm? Islam says that Allah gave Jesus the Injeel. It was a true revelation from God. It contained guidance and light. The Qur'an claims to confirm it. The People of the Gospel are told to judge b…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…een reduced or removed. That matters because Surah 7:157 places a serious burden upon the Islamic claim. It does not merely say that some later reader might find suggestive resemblances. It says that the unlettered prophet is written in the Torah and Gospel which Jews and Christi…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
The biblical case for one God in three distinct Persons, with careful answers to common misunderstandings of the Trinity.
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…he eternal Word entered the material world and took a true human nature. Centuries later, Islam would reject this confession at precisely its most radical point. The Qur’an honours Jesus as Messiah and messenger while denying that God has a Son and warning Christians not to say “…
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
A clear introduction to the manuscript evidence, textual variants, and the claim that the Bible was corrupted beyond recovery.
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…s one setting in which Christians may encounter them, but the objections are not uniquely Islamic. Their force comes from making incarnation appear absurd by transferring every human experience directly to the divine nature. The Qur’an uses a more restrained form of the argument…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…ivine Son. See Qur’an 4:171 and 5:72–75. These statements should be allowed to define the Islamic position rather than treating Muslim reverence for Jesus as equivalent to Christian confession.
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…experiences are not confined to one religion. They appear in forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islamic mysticism, ancient paganism, occultism, New Age spirituality, and some movements carrying the Christian name. This should immediately make us cautious about the claim that the experi…
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