2022
2022 articles
How Reliable were the Early Church’s Oral Traditions? Paid Members Public
Gregory Boyd November 3, 2021 How reliable were the early church’s oral traditions? In terms of assessing the reliability of the Gospels, this is an extremely important question. First century Jewish culture was what scholars today would call an “orally dominated culture.” While a certain percentage of people could
MORE OF MUHAMMAD’S BLASPHEMOUS FAIRYTALES EXPOSED Paid Members Public
In this post I will share another of Islam’s fairytales, one that focuses on Muhammad’s alleged night journey where he was taken by night from the Kabah to the Temple in Jerusalem, and from there throughout the seven heavens where he supposedly met his lord. The fable will
JUSTIN MARTYR ON THE JEWISH CORRUPTION OF THE SCRIPTURES Paid Members Public
2nd century Church apologist and holy martyr Justin Martyr states that the Jews of his day not only rejected the Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Septuagint [LXX]), but that they also removed clear prophecies of Jesus’ Deity, crucifixion and resurrection from their own copies of the
IS ALLAH IN HEAVEN OR ABOVE IT? Paid Members Public
Certain Muslims, particularly those who identify as Salafis, claim that their god is above his throne which is above the seven heavens in a manner that befits his majesty. These Islamic anthropomorphists deny that Allah is in any of the seven heavens, even though they believe that he does descend
ALLAH’S NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES Paid Members Public
In this post I will highlight some of the negative descriptions of Allah, or names which depict the Muslim deity and an evil, capricious, arrogant and heartless tyrant who does not resemble the true God revealed in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. For the most part, I shall
Ibrahim and the Wives of the Prophet Paid Members Public
The Life of Muhammad by Muhammad Husayn Haykal Translated by Isma’il Razi A. al-Faruqi Effect of the Conquest of Makkah upon the Peninsula Muhammad returned to Madinah after his conquest of Makkah, his victory at Hunayn, and his siege of al Ta‘if. He had convinced all that no
THE BURNING OF APOSTATES AND HOMOSEXUALS Paid Members Public
According to the so-called authentic sources of Sunni Islam, Muhammad’s first cousin, son-in-law and the fourth caliph, Ali ibn Abu Talib would burn apostates alive. Ibn Abbas, who happened to be the cousin of both Muhammad and Ali, objected claiming that killing apostates is the punishment prescribed by Allah,
THE NOT SO MIRACULOUS AND PERFECTLY PRESERVED QURAN Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from Qadi ‘Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi’s Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa (Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One), translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley (Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K.; third reprint 1991, paperback), PART THREE. On what is