Sam Shamoun

Veteran Christian apologist specializing in Islamic studies and interfaith dialogue. Author of hundreds of articles on answeringislam.info, with decades of experience in Muslim-Christian engagement.

Sam Shamoun

Articles (778)

If Jesus is God, how can God die?

If Jesus is God, was he praying to himself?

Since Jesus has a God, how can he be God himself?

Is Jesus God because he did Miracles?

Jesus says that the Father is greater than he is, proving that he is not God.

Jesus says that the Father is greater than he is, proving that he is not God.

How can Jesus be God, when he calls the Father the only true God?

If Yahweh alone is the Creator, and Jesus a servant sent by him, how can Jesus be God?

How can Jesus be God when he will be in eternal subjection?

How can Jesus be God when he denies being all-powerful?

Jesus wept, slept, was hungry and thirsty, but God does not sleep, thirst or hunger.

Did Jesus become the Son of God only through his virgin birth?

If Jesus is God, how can God die?

If Jesus really is God how could Satan tempt him?

Jesus says that the Father is greater than he is, proving that he is not God.

Whoever is good is God?

How can Jesus be God when the Hebrew Bible says God is not a man?

God has many sons who are not divine. Why then would Jesus be?

Since God cannot change, but Jesus did, how he can he be God?

If God so loved the world, why did he not come himself to die for us?

An Objection to Jesus being God based on his claim to pre-existence

God spoke through his Son only "in these last days",

Jesus allegedly emptied himself of Deity, which is impossible for God to do

What does it mean that Jesus was made Lord?

How can Jesus be God if he is given the name Lord only at his exaltation?

Does being called "Kyrios" really imply Deity?

Is the Savior necessarily God?

Doesn't Jesus' calling "belief that God is One" the greatest command disprove

Doesn't the Bible present Melchizedek as possessing divine attributes?

Paul says there is only one God and that is the Father ...

Since the Bible states that God has never been seen, Jesus cannot be God [Part 1]

Since the Bible states that God has never been seen, Jesus cannot be God [Part 2]

Does the Apostles' ability to forgive sins imply their deity, too?

Did God want Christ's followers to be called Christians?

Why did Jesus curse the fig tree for not bearing fruit, although it was not even fig season?

Did Jesus deny the ascension of Elijah and Enoch?

Did the Jews Misunderstand Jesus?

Jesus' Authority To Forgive Sins

Does the Apostles' ability to forgive sin imply their deity, too?

Since Baptism is "for the forgiveness of sins", does that not imply that Jesus was a sinner?

What about God commanding the annihilation of the Amalekites?

Why did Matthew not record even a single one of Jesus' "I AM" Sayings found in John's Gospel?

Why did Jesus never say, "I am God, and there is none else"?

Does Proverbs 8:22 show that Jesus is a created being after all?

Questions regarding the authenticity and implications of the baptismal formula in Matthew 28:19

A Misquotation of the Old Testament in the New Testament?

Did Paul slander the Law?

Did Jesus claim that salvation comes from observing the Law?

Doesn't Ezekiel 18 show that God does not require perfect obedience but expects us to sin?

God's Promise to Abraham's Offspring: Singular or Plural?

Doesn't the Bible degrade women, placing them on the level of animals and possessions?

Should or should we not trust a/the son of man?

How can the Bible be inspired if it contains passages that are merely Paul's personal opinion?

Isn't Muhammad "that prophet" awaited by the Jews?

Wasn't Muhammad announced by John the Baptist?

If being called God proves that Jesus is the Almighty wouldn't the same hold for Moses?

The meaning of 2 Corinthians 4:4

Biblical Consummation versus Islamic Abrogation [Part 1]

Biblical Consummation versus Islamic Abrogation [Part 2]

A Christian Defense of the Gospel to the Muslims

Christian Answers to Muslim Charges

The New Testament Documents and the Historicity of the Resurrection

Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 1

Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 2

Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 3

Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 4

Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 5

Jamal Badawi's Misinformation and Misquotations - Part 6

A Million Dollars for "Holy War": The Quran, Holy War & Jamal Badawi

Dr. Jamal Badawi and Shirk

Women in Islam [Part 1]

Women in Islam [Part 2]

Women in Islam [Part 3]

Women in Islam [Part 4]

The Biblical and Islamic View of Women

Women in Islam [Part 2]

The Old Testament and Rape : Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Jesus' Divine Claims and Islam: An Examination of Biblical Christology

Examining Psalm 110:1 A look at Its Implications on God being a Multi-Personal Being and upon the Deity of Christ