theology
Doctrinal studies addressing key themes in Christian belief through Scripture and sound exegesis.
Revisiting the Issue of Allah’s Divine Corporation Paid Members Public
The Quran states that had Allah wanted, he could find a way of keeping himself entertained or passing the time from within himself: Had We intended to take a pastime (i.e. a wife or a son, etc.), We could surely have taken it from Us, if We were going
JESUS CHRIST – THE PROPHET LIKE MOSES Paid Members Public
God had promised the Israelites to raise up for them a prophet like Moses from among themselves: “Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you (miqqirbaka), of your brothers (me’aheka), like me. You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you
A MONK WONDERS: WHO DOES ALLAH PRAY TO? Paid Members Public
The following is a translation of a theological debate that took place between Ibrahim al-Tabarani and the prince Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Malik al-Hashimi in Bait al-Maqdis (Quds) around the year 820 AD (http://alkalema.net/gedal/gedal18.htm). B – The meaning of Christ’s prayer Al-Basri said: Tell me,
Evangelical Scholarship’s Struggle With OT Proofs For the Trinity Paid Members Public
In this post, I am going cite the textual notes of the New English Translation (NET) of the Holy Bible in relation to specific Old Testament (OT) references, where the scholars acknowledge that the Hebrew Bible employs plural pronouns, verbs, adjectives, participles, etc., for one true God. Yet instead of
NOTES FOR MORMON DEBATE Paid Members Public
GOD’S UNCREATED EXISTENCE “Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” Psalm 90:1-2 New American Standard Bible (NASB) “Before the mountains existed (pro
Allah’s Mutability and Imperfection Revisited Paid Members Public
In this post, I am going to provide further evidence that the Islamic sources depict Allah as an imperfect, mutable being bound to time and space (/2020/04/03/muhammad-bears-witness-allah-is-an-imperfect-and-mutable-deity/). 1. Allah ascends and descends. The Quran claims that Allah mounted the throne after creating the cosmos: Lo! your Lord
Yahweh Son of the Most High: Yahweh is the Most High! Paid Members Public
In the previous segments (/2018/09/28/yahweh-son-of-the-most-high-pt-2/), I showed how the liberal interpretation of Deuteronomy 32:8-9 comports with Trinitarian beliefs since it would affirm that the Most High is the Father and Yahweh is his eternal Son, namely, Jesus Christ in his prehuman existence. With that said, the
Uncovering Another Quranic Dilemma Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
In this series we will be revisiting (https://answeringislam.net/Quran/Contra/jesus_unlike_adam.html) the Quran’s assertion that Jesus is similar to Adam in the sight of the Muslim deity: Verily, in the sight of God, the nature of Jesus is as the nature of Adam, whom