Bible
The Christian leader who inspired the Protestant Reformation: his views on polygyny
Martin Luther (Not MLK) on polygyny: “I confess that I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man wishes to marry more than one wife he should be asked whether… Read More ›
John 5:2 and the Date of the Fourth Gospel: A Response to a Christian Apologist
John 5:2 and the Date of the Fourth Gospel: A Response to a Christian Apologist Originally Posted on the “Quran and Bible Blog“ بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم “This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them… Read More ›
‘Extreme teaching! Lamin & Paul Vs Christian Speaker’s corner Hyde park’
Last week at Speakers’ Corner
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. . . . You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.”
by J. R. Daniel Kirk These famous words by C. S. Lewis beautifully encapsulate the Christianity of my childhood. They underscore how central Jesus’s divinity has been to the church’s confession of faith for the past sixteen hundred years. And they… Read More ›
What do the experts say the Qur’an teaches concerning the previous Scriptures?
I wrote this article 2 years ago. I wanted to do some research to discover how top Western scholarship understands what the Qur’an teaches about the scriptures of the People of the Book (the Jews and Christians). This question is… Read More ›
When men are called “God” in the Bible
Perhaps surprisingly, there are a number of places in the Jewish Scriptures where beings other than Yahweh are called divine or “God”. I draw on the extensive discussion of key passages in King and Messiah as Son of God Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in… Read More ›