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 cru…
Read article →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
…iastical, regional, and political commitments; he is not a detached modern historian. His miracle accounts, speeches, chronology, judgments, and treatment of Roman and Celtic practices all require historical evaluation. Read him to understand both the events he records and the wo…
View recommendation →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…llect remarkable accounts. Brooke examined the beliefs being carried back from the brink: claims about God, judgement, reincarnation, universal salvation, spirit guides and the meaning of death. That remains the right question. A testimony may be moving without being self-interpr…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…. The existence of an early denial does not make the evidence evenly balanced. Historical claims are not counted like votes. We must ask which account is earlier, better connected to the named people and places, multiply attested and capable of explaining the rise of the movement…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…dern Protestant invention devised to escape an otherwise obvious Roman reading. What Rome claims—and what this article does not claim Fairness requires an important distinction. Roman Catholic theology does not teach that the communicant tears pieces from Christ’s visible body as…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…oundary around that honour. Jesus is a messenger and servant of God, not God the Son. His miracles are signs granted by God, not evidence that He shares God's identity. He must not be worshipped, and the Christian confession of His deity is treated as a corruption of true monothe…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…into it and it is a bird, by Allah’s leave” (Surah 3:49, Pickthall). Surah 5 repeats the miracle: “And how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission” (Surah 5:110, Pickthall). The canoni…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…e. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant line through Isaac, Daniel’s cut-off Messiah and the Qur’an’s relationship to the religious stories of late antiquity. The individ…
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