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Are the "Shia suras" al-Nurain and al-Wilaya genuine? Paid Members Public
(Despite his personal attacks it contains) M.S.M. Saifullah from Cambridge University has posted to the newsgroup soc.religion.islam a valuable piece of investiagation into the authenticity of the suras al-Nurain and al-Wilaya which sometimes are claimed to be suras that can be found in some Shia editions
Jalal Abualrub on the Genealogy of the Son of God [Part 2] Paid Members Public
A Rebuttal to Jalal Abualrub's Polemic against the Genealogy of Jesus Part 2 Sam Shamoun [Begin with Part 1.] Abularub has some more stuff to say about Jesus genealogies: Two Possibilities Yet, even if the two genealogies of Jesus as recorded by Matthew and Luke were perfectly identical,
Jalal Abualrub on the Genealogy of the Son of God [Part 1] Paid Members Public
A Rebuttal to Jalal Abualrub's Polemic against the Genealogy of Jesus Part 1 Sam Shamoun Jalal Abualrub sent me an article attacking the genealogies of the Lord Jesus, calling into question the integrity of the Canonical Gospels. Anticipating that this article will appear on his website, we have
Rebuttals to Answering Christianity Paid Members Public
Responses to Answering Christianity Allegation of Allah not being able to decide as to who Muslims could have as friends. I am not sure of the question that Mr Ali is attempting to answer in this section. The Qur'an is very clear that Muslims cannot be friends with
Rebuttal to Shabir Ally : Evidence from the Fourth Gospel Paid Members Public
Evidence from the Fourth Gospel Sam Shamoun Shabir : The Gospel of John was completed to its present form some seventy years after Jesus was raised up to heaven. This Gospel in its final form says one more thing about Jesus that was unknown from the previous three Gospels that Jesus
Explaining Away a Quranic Oversight Paid Members Public
A Response to Jalal Abualrub's ‘Exegesis’ of Surah 52:21 Sam Shamoun Abualrub tries to briefly address (that article is now also defunct) Jochen Katz’s paper regarding Allah forgetting the wives of believers (*). As has been his habit in all of his papers, Abualrub fails to provide
Rebuttal to Osama Abdallah: How can Jesus not be GOD Almighty Paid Members Public
How can Jesus not be GOD Almighty When he demands that His Father Forgives Sinners? Being A Response to Osamas Gross Misunderstandings of Trinitarianism To begin with, Osamas title heading in this article is quite misleading: How can Jesus be GOD Almighty when he asked for GOD's Forgiveness?
Rebuttal to Shibli Zaman: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ... Paid Members Public
Responses to Shibli Zaman Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ... Shibli Zaman has tried to interact with my response to Osama Abdallah regarding the Lord Jesus’ prayer in Luke 23:34. Seemingly not satisfied with his studies of the Semitic languages, Zaman has ventured into tackling issues related