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Common Questions and Claims6,446 words32 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question/Claim: > Wives are included on a list of property with farm animals and houses in the…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsCommon Questions and Claims2,390 words12 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question: > God warns people in Psalm 146:3 from trusting in a son of man for help. According to…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsCommon Questions and Claims2,625 words13 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question: > Christians believe that God inspired the entire Bible, and yet Paul admitted that not…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsCommon Questions and Claims2,885 words14 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question: > The New Testament anticipates a Prophet to come, the one like Moses, along with the…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsCommon Questions and Claims7,932 words40 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question: > According to the Holy Bible John the Baptist announced the coming of One greater than…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsCommon Questions and Claims3,629 words18 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question: > Christians make a big deal over Jesus being called God in several NT passages (cf.…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsCommon Questions and Claims6,764 words34 min
A Series of Answers to Common Questions Sam Shamoun Question: > > > Why are Christians dishonest in the way they translate the Bible? For instance,…
Category: common-questions-and-claimsTheological Issues13,242 words66 min
Islam and Monotheism Reassessing Muslim Claims Regarding the Absolute Worship and Unity of Allah Sam Shamoun Muslims often boast that they have the…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues10,324 words52 min
The Muslim Criteria For God How the Lord Jesus passes and Allah fails the Islamic Test for Deity Sam Shamoun Introduction Muslims have produced a…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues5,588 words28 min
On Serving Others Besides Allah The Hypocrisy and Blasphemy of Islam Sam Shamoun Introduction The Quran makes several assertions concerning the…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues10,109 words51 min
On Serving Others Besides Allah The Hypocrisy and Blasphemy of Islam Sam Shamoun In this second section (cf. Part 1) we will examine specific reports…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues6,195 words31 min
On Serving Others Besides Allah The Hypocrisy and Blasphemy of Islam Sam Shamoun This is a continuation of our series (Part 1, Part 2) concerning the…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues7,862 words39 min
Allah's Guessing Game Is Allah an All-Knowing God? Sam Shamoun Muslims often criticize the biblical portrayal of God. For instance, Muslims take…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues2,015 words10 min
Allah's Imperfection and Mutability Sam Shamoun Perfection is a necessary attribute of God since it directly ties in with God being a self-sufficient…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues4,429 words22 min
Allah’s Omnipotence and the Incarnation Sam Shamoun The Quran repeatedly asserts that Allah is able to do everything and that he has power over all…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues9,948 words50 min
IS ALLAH THE GOD OF BIBLE? Sam Shamoun This study examines the crucial question that needs to be addressed which is whether the God presented in the…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues6,037 words30 min
Allah’s Oaths Sam Shamoun The following has been adapted, modified, and enlarged from some of my papers and responses, specifically from these two:…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues1,573 words8 min
Allah’s Pride Sam Shamoun One of the names given to Allah in the Quran is "the Most Proud": > He is the One GOD; there is no other god beside Him.…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues2,567 words13 min
Allah as a Deceiver Examining Satan’s Accusations Against the Integrity of Allah Sam Shamoun In several articles (1, 2, 3, 4) we have made mention…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues3,947 words20 min
Allah – The Greatest Deceiver of them All Sam Shamoun The Quran describes Allah as the best deceiver there is, a liar who is not above using the same…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues1,581 words8 min
The (In)Justice of Allah Examined Sam Shamoun The Quran says that Allah will judge everyone righteously, that no soul will ever be dealt with in an…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues7,512 words38 min
ALLAH - AN IMMATERIAL ENTITY OR AN INVISIBLE MAN? Sam Shamoun A common point of disagreement between Muslims and Christians is the Christian belief…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues2,125 words11 min
Allah: An Exalted Woman? Examining the Issue of Allah’s Veil Sam Shamoun In some of our previous articles (1; 2; 3; see also this article) we looked…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues1,067 words5 min
The Annihilation of Allah A Question and Challenge to Salafi Anthropomorphists Sam Shamoun In many places the Quran ascribes certain physical…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues3,890 words19 min
Can Allah be seen and did Muhammad see his Lord? Sam Shamoun The Quran suggests that Muhammad saw Allah, that he had a vision in which Allah appeared…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues2,582 words13 min
The Uncreatedness of the Quran and the Unity of Allah: A Brief Critique of Islamic Monotheism Sam Shamoun In two earlier articles (1, 2) we already…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues9,937 words50 min
The Quran’s many Gods and Lords An Analysis of the Worship given to And Deification of Creatures within the Islamic Text Sam Shamoun Introduction…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues6,629 words33 min
Does Yahweh Really Deceive? Sam Shamoun The Quran clearly teaches, both implicitly and explicitly, that Allah is a deceiver, and even brags that he…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues1,085 words5 min
Allah as the Inheritor of Creation More Problems with Islamic Monotheism Sam Shamoun One of the main criticisms which Muslims raise against the Deity…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues4,895 words24 min
Plurality in the Old Testament An Examination of God’s Uniplurality in light the Hebrew Bible’s Use of Plurals Sam Shamoun In several articles and…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues9,078 words45 min
Plurality in the Old Testament Sam Shamoun We now move into the second part of our discussion where we take a look at specific texts which refer to…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues5,094 words25 min
A Look at Isaiah 6 and its Trinitarian Implications Sam Shamoun Isaiah chapter 6 is a passage packed with rich theological truths, providing clear…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues7,331 words37 min
The Aaronic Priestly Blessing – A Trinitarian Invocation Sam Shamoun The readers of A-I may well know that we have written many articles seeking to…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues9,858 words49 min
The Heavenly Tabernacle: The Dwelling Place of the Triune God Sam Shamoun We read in the Hebrew Scriptures that God commissioned Moses to design a…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues3,294 words16 min
Eusebius and the Trinitarian Baptismal Formula Exposing Jamal Badawi’s Desperate Tirade Against the Trinity Sam Shamoun In two previous articles (1,…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues9,295 words46 min
The Quran, Allah and Plurality Issues Sam Shamoun The Quran, much like the Holy Bible, uses plural pronouns for God even more so than what we find in…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues3,904 words20 min
Quran’s Incoherence and Unintelligibility The Issue of the Quran’s Teaching on Islamic Monotheism Sam Shamoun Surah 112 is one of the most important…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues3,848 words19 min
Is Allah really one or only "one of"? Monotheism vs. Eloquence of the Quran Sam Shamoun We read in the Quran regarding Allah’s unity: > Say: 'He is…
Category: theological-issuesTheological Issues6,923 words35 min
Is the Quran An Implicit Endorsement and Continuation of Arab Paganism? Sam Shamoun Historical and cultural Background The Holy Bible clearly…
Category: theological-issuesChristological Issues13,912 words70 min
Jesus Christ in The Bible Sam Shamoun Throughout the centuries, the person of Christ has been one of the most widely debated issues among scholars…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues9,742 words49 min
The New Testament on the Worship given to Jesus Its Significance and Implications for the Deity of Christ Sam Shamoun The Holy Scriptures…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues2,225 words11 min
"All the Nations will serve Him" An Examination of the Worship Given to the Messiah in the Old Testament Sam Shamoun In the following articles: >…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues6,347 words32 min
Jesus And Latreuo Examining The New Testament On Christ Receiving Sacred Service Sam Shamoun Note: This paper is intended to supplement my article on…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues5,837 words29 min
Is the Prophet Daniel Worshiped as God? Sam Shamoun In order to undermine the explicit New Testament teaching that Jesus Christ is worshiped as God,…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues5,694 words28 min
Jesus As The Way, The Truth, And The Life: An Examination of John 14:6 In Light Of Muslim Claims Sam Shamoun It is not uncommon to find Muslims…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues5,694 words28 min
The Sonship of Christ: Eternal or Temporal? Examining Some Key Specific Texts Regarding Jesus’ Relationship to the Father Sam Shamoun The historical…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues7,185 words36 min
The Eternal Generation of the Son A Biblical Perspective Sam Shamoun The following article is an extension of our answers to common question series,…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues3,280 words16 min
The Lord Jesus: God’s Son and Heir of All Creation Sam Shamoun The Holy Bible teaches that the Father gave the Son all things: > "_All things have…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues5,624 words28 min
Lukan Christological Preexistence More Evidence for the Deity of Christ from the Third Gospel Sam Shamoun The purpose of this article is to…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues8,678 words43 min
Christological Preexistence Analyzing Jesus’ Prehuman Existence in light of the Synoptic Gospels Sam Shamoun Introduction It is a commonly held…
Category: christological-issues