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General Issues6,088 words30 min
Biblical Consummation versus Islamic Abrogation A Comparative Look at Two Different Interpretive Approaches Part 1 [Part 2] Sam Shamoun Some Muslims,…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues5,363 words27 min
Biblical Consummation versus Islamic Abrogation A Comparative Look at Two Different Interpretive Approaches [Part 1] Part 2 Sam Shamoun We anticipate…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues22,115 words111 min
A Christian Defense of the Gospel to the Muslims Sam Shamoun Throughout the course of this study, the object will be to give a rational and loving…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues12,930 words65 min
Christian Answers to Muslim Charges Sam Shamoun In this study, it will be our express purpose to examine some of the many Islamic arguments that are…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues11,882 words59 min
The New Testament Documents and the Historicity of the Resurrection Sam Shamoun The historicity of the resurrection is firmly rooted in the…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues11,675 words58 min
Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 1 [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ] Sam…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues15,064 words75 min
Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 2 [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ] Sam…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues15,667 words78 min
Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 3 [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ] Sam…
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Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 4 [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ] Sam…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues10,703 words54 min
Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 5 [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ] Sam…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues8,603 words43 min
Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 6 [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ] Sam…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues2,089 words10 min
A Million Dollars for "Holy War" Our Counter Challenge to Jamal Badawi Sam Shamoun Muslim speaker and polemicist, Dr. Jamal Badawi, has been making…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues4,886 words24 min
Answering Dr. Jamal Badawi: Dr. Jamal Badawi and Shirk Sam Shamoun Most people, even Muslims, are unaware that Dr. Jamal Badawi has violated the…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues14,880 words74 min
Women in Islam Part 1 [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] Sam Shamoun It is obvious that many Muslim apologists are really not interested in seriously…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues9,097 words45 min
Women in Islam [Part 1] Part 2 [Part 3] [Part 4] Sam Shamoun __Women are Men’s Property__ Since the Quran assumes that women are not equal to men in…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues9,804 words49 min
Women in Islam [Part 1] [Part 2] Part 3 [Part 4] Sam Shamoun __Islam Condones Adultery, Rape and Pedophilia__ Islam not only condoned a form of…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues2,131 words11 min
Women in Islam [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Part 4 Appendix: Supplementary Material Sam Shamoun The purpose of this short article is to provide some…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues12,937 words65 min
The Biblical View of Women Part 1 [Part 2] Sam Shamoun Having examined the role of women in Islam, it is now time to focus our attention on the…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues15,949 words80 min
Women in the Bible [Part 1] Part 2 Some Objections Considered Sam Shamoun We resume our discussion and analysis of women in the Holy Bible by…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues5,008 words25 min
The Old Testament and Rape Sam Shamoun Some Muslims claim that the following passage from the Holy Bible condones rape: > "If a man happens to meet a…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues3,492 words17 min
The Holy Bible on the Age of Marriage Sam Shamoun Visitors to our site may be aware that the Quran permits Muslim men to marry prepubescent girls.…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues7,556 words38 min
The Historicity of Jonah Examined Sam Shamoun The following is my response to some charges presented against the historical accuracy of the book of…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues2,873 words14 min
The Challenge Did Paul distort the Torah? As we were perusing the web we discovered a website run by a Muslim named Illias Suttar…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues1,554 words8 min
Open Challenge to All Muslims Sam Shamoun Muslims typically challenge Christians to produce verses from the Holy Bible where Jesus is reported to…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues3,823 words19 min
Some More Open Challenges For Muslims Sam Shamoun Muslims challenge believers in Christ to produce a verse in the New Testament, specifically the…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues3,793 words19 min
Challenging Muslims regarding the Quran’s teaching on the Trinity Sam Shamoun This is the third article in our series of challenges to Muslims (1, 2)…
Category: general-issuesGeneral Issues5,084 words25 min
Open Challenge to Muslims Jesus in Islamic Theology Sam Shamoun In the tradition of keeping Muslim dawagandists honest and consistent we issue some…
Category: general-issuesChristological Issues3,297 words16 min
JESUS IN THE RABBINIC TRADITIONS Sam Shamoun The following article will briefly examine some of the Jewish rabbinic references on the person and work…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues5,780 words29 min
The Messiah in the Jewish Traditions Pt. 1 Sam Shamoun Introduction Here we begin a series of articles where we will be looking to specific OT…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues6,831 words34 min
The Messiah in the Jewish Traditions Pt. 2 Sam Shamoun New Testament application of OT texts In this particular section of our series we will be…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues9,754 words49 min
The Messiah in the Jewish Traditions Pt. 3 The Witness of the Old Greek Version of the Hebrew Bible Sam Shamoun We resume our examination of some of…
Category: christological-issuesChristological Issues3,879 words19 min
Appendix The Witness of Christian Apologist Justin Martyr [AD 100-165] Sam Shamoun Justin Martyr was an influential 2nd Christian apologist who wrote…
Category: christological-issuesPolemical Issues7,519 words38 min
_ Abraham and the Child of Sacrifice - Isaac or Ishmael? _ Sam Shamoun Jews, Christians and Muslims agree; Abraham, the friend of God, is an example…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues11,419 words57 min
Did the Meccans Worship Yahweh God? Revisiting the Issue of the Ishmaelites and the worship of the true God Sam Shamoun It is asserted by Muslims…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues13,307 words67 min
Is "the Holy Spirit" Only Another Name for the Angel Gabriel? Sam Shamoun It is a common Muslim belief that "the Holy Spirit" is just another name…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues8,500 words43 min
The Apostles of Christ: Messengers of God or Mere Disciples? Sam Shamoun According to certain Muslim expositors, there is a story in the Quran that…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues3,637 words18 min
The Quran Affirms: Paul Passed On The True Gospel of Christ Sam Shamoun It may come as a surprise to some to hear that the Quran implicitly affirms…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues7,217 words36 min
Meeting the Quranic Challenge How Muhammad’s Sunna Trumps Allah’s Book Sam Shamoun According to Sunni Muslims (as well as the Shiites) Muhammad’s…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues6,285 words31 min
Islam and the Sins of the Prophets Sam Shamoun Muslims often attack the Holy Bible due to its negative portrayal of the prophets. Muslims claim that…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues2,927 words15 min
Adam and Eve: The First of the Polytheists and Associators? Sam Shamoun In a previous article (Islam and the Sins of the Prophets) we set out to show…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues2,098 words10 min
Sunni Islam’s Real Shahadah Sam Shamoun One of the essential pillars of Sunni Islam is the _Shahadah_ (Testimony, Witness), otherwise known as the…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues2,586 words13 min
Islam’s Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement And the Ransoming of Sinners Sam Shamoun The heart and soul of Christianity is the death and…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues1,607 words8 min
Islam and The Nursing of Adults Sam Shamoun The ahadith record how Muhammad permitted a rather shameful practice. Muhammad permitted women to nurse…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues2,815 words14 min
Cross Dressing and Islam: An examination of Muhammad’s Dress Code Dimitrius & Sam Shamoun The Holy Bible clearly condemns cross-dressing, i.e. man…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues7,337 words37 min
Exposing Some More of the Moral Problems of Islam: The Quran’s Confused Stance on Sexual Ethics Sam Shamoun Some Muslims have attacked the Bible with…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues5,300 words27 min
Islam And Wine Consumption Examining Muslim Arguments against The Bible in light of Islam’s Gradual Prohibition of Wine Consumption Sam Shamoun…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues3,111 words16 min
The Quran’s Use of Filial Terms A Critique of Muslim Arguments against Jesus being the Son of God Sam Shamoun & Jochen Katz The Holy Bible often…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues1,491 words7 min
Jewish and Christian Converts to Islam Some Questions for Muslims to Ponder Sam Shamoun Christians are often asked why do they not observe specific…
Category: polemical-issuesPolemical Issues3,651 words18 min
Allah and Nudity Addressing a Typical Muslim Polemic Sam Shamoun Muslims like to bring up passages from the Holy Bible which they feel are indecent…
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