2023

2023 articles

NOTES FOR THE ANTHONY ROGERS’ REBUTTAL Members Public

DID MARY HAVE BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN? In their zeal against and hatred of Mary’s perpetual virginity, rabid anti-Catholic calvinists such as Anthony Rogers will cite Psalm 69:8 to prove that the blessed Mother of our Lord (Cf. Luke 1:43) had biological children after giving birth to Christ. This

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JESUS AND MUHAMMAD CONTRASTED Members Public

In the following chart I show how both God’s Word, the Holy Bible, and Islamic tradition confirm that Jesus is superior and infinitely better Muhammad, whom the Muslim sources depict as an imperfect, inconsistent, immoral, sinful, doubting hypocrite whose deity often threatened to humiliate and murder if he didn’

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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THE PAGAN GODS ALLAH AND AHAD Members Public

MORE PROOF OF ISLAM’S PAGAN ROOTS The following references are all taken from Ahmad Al-Jallad’s book, The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions, published by Brill, Leiden/New York, 2022. All emphasis will be mine.    RODAW: ALLAH THE

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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AHAD: A PRE-ISLAMIC PAGAN DEITY? Members Public

In this post I will be citing snippets from the fabulous work of epigrapher Ahmad Al-Jallad in respect to some of the pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions he and his colleagues have discovered, which prove quite devastating to the traditional Muslim narrative. Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language.

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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ISLAMIC SADISM: PUNISHMENT OF THE GRAVE Members Public

According to the hadiths Muhammad believed that unbelievers are tormented in their graves. Believers, however, are given respite: Narrated Masruq: ‘Aisha said that a Jewess came to her and mentioned the punishment in the grave, saying to her, “May Allah protect you from the punishment of the grave.” ‘Aisha then

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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FRANCIS TURRETIN ON THE PERPETUAL VIRGINITY OF MARY Members Public

This post is courtesy of Perry Robinson of energetic procession: https://energeticprocession.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/sometimes-you-feel-like-a-nut-francis-turretin-on-the-perpetual-virginity-of-mary/. The perpetual virginity of Mary often comes up in Protestant and Catholic arguments. When I was Reformed, I didn’t think much of it. I didn’t think it ought to be

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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THE PROMISED SEED WHO BLESSES THE WORLD Members Public

In this post I will set out to prove that God’s promise to send forth a Seed to both crush the head of the enemy and to bless the nations is none other than Jesus Christ our Lord. THE SEED OF THE WOMAN After the serpent tempted Adam and

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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JESUS AS GOD’S SON: THE BIBLICAL DATA Members Public

In this post I will be listing all of the verses where Jesus is described as the Son of God. The purpose isn’t to exegete the meaning of the texts, but to simply provide a handy list of all the pertinent references to Christ being identified as God’s

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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