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Apologetic articles addressing common Muslim objections, challenges, and misunderstandings about the Bible, Christian doctrine, and the Christian response to Islamic claims.

Rebuttals to Jamal Badawi's "Radio Al-Islam Channel RA 200" [Spread of Islam] Members Public

Responses to Jamal Badawi's "Radio Al-Islam Channel RA 200" "Spread of Islam" Introduction In this segment, Dr. Badawi attempts to dispel the notion that Islam was ever spread by the sword. He selectively provides us with one passage from the Qur'an while

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Sam Shamoun
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Revisiting the Quran’s affirmation of Jesus’ Eternal Existence Pt. 5 Members Public

Sam Shamoun We proceed from where we previously left off. Jalal Abualrub may object to my exegesis of the Quran by arguing that the reason why Christ is called Allah’s Word is because he is like Adam in that Allah brought Jesus into existence by his creative command or

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Sam Shamoun
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Revisiting the Quran’s affirmation of Jesus’ Eternal Existence Pt. 4 Members Public

Sam Shamoun We continue with our discussion. Jesus Christ – The Divine Spirit from Allah Calling Jesus a Spirit that proceeded from Allah further confirms Christ’s divine prehuman existence, since this phrase suggests that Jesus was dwelling alongside Allah as a Spirit Being long before he was sent to be

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Sam Shamoun
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Revisiting the Quran’s affirmation of Jesus’ Eternal Existence Pt. 3 Members Public

Sam Shamoun We resume from where we left off by summarizing Abualrub’s claims for the Quran. A brief summation of Sunni Islam’s view of the Quran Here is a run down of what Sunni theology in general, and Jalal Abualrub in particular, believes about the nature of the

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Sam Shamoun
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Revisiting the Quran’s affirmation of Jesus’ Eternal Existence Pt. 2 Members Public

Sam Shamoun We continue our response to Jalal Abualrub’s claims regarding the Islamic scripture being the uncreated speech of Allah and how this ends up proving that Christ must also be eternal according to the Quran. Here is what one of the booklets published by Abualrub states in regards

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Sam Shamoun
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Revisiting the Quran’s affirmation of Jesus’ Eternal Existence Pt. 1 Members Public

Sam Shamoun In this response we are going to look at what Muslim apologist Jalal Abualrub has to say about his religious text, and use that to prove that Jesus Christ is the uncreated Word of God according to the Quran itself. Here is Abualrub’s reply to an unnamed

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Sam Shamoun
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Was Jesus’ Mission Universal in Scope? Members Public

Sam Shamoun Muslims are fond of citing the following Biblical texts to prove that Jesus wasn’t sent for the entire world, or to every creature, but rather only to the nation of Israel: “These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: ‘Do not go among the Gentiles or

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Sam Shamoun
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Is The Holy Spirit Jesus’ God As Well? Members Public

Sam Shamoun Question: In one of your articles you stated that the Father became Jesus’ God due to his incarnation. You argued that by becoming flesh Christ acquired a nature that was created, which therefore made him part of creation. As a result of this, Christ began submitting to the

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Sam Shamoun
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