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Common 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-claimsGeneral 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 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 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 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 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-issuesTheological 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-issues