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Four popular claims tested in context
…rah and the Gospel possessed by Jews and Christians: "Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them" (Surah 7:157, Pickthall). That is not a minor claim. If Muhammad was…
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Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…hrough the declaration of the State of Israel. That event does not by itself settle every prophetic question. The modern state is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel described at the consummation of prophecy. It does force an important question: how should we read th…
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A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." —Matthew 24:29, 31 Few passages in prophetic Scripture generate more debate than Matthew 24. At the centre of that debate stands an apparently simple question: who are "the elect" whom Christ gathers after the Tribulation? Ma…
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Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…ory Paul did not invent inward circumcision to provide the Church with a new ethnic name. Moses had already commanded Israel: "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked." —Deuteronomy 10:16 The same book promises a future divine work in Israel: "…
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Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…. Islam does not merely criticise Christian revelation. It presents another book, another prophet and another account of Jesus, then demands that the earlier witness be reinterpreted wherever it disagrees. That claim must now enter the witness box. Why should anyone believe that…
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Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…njeel in the singular as a revelation bestowed 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…
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Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ed Jesus through the Gospels and asked whether He can be contained within the category of prophet. We have considered eternal love, the crucifixion, divine justice, forgiveness and assurance. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s m…
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