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Did Messiah Come Only for the Lost Sheep of Israel? (Lost Sheep Series)

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Who Then is This Jesus?

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Why Don't Christians Follow Jewish Dietary Laws?

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Was Jesus Spared from Death, as Muslims Claim?

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The Alexamenos Graffito

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Why So Many Bible Versions?

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Those Naughty Saudis!

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Face Off: King Jesus versus Allah (Surah 1)

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Where Does Jesus Say "I Am God" in the Aramaic Bible?

It has been pointed out in previous posts that Muslims seem enamored with the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic, primarily because they believe it proves that He worshiped their god, Allah. But the similarities between Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic are only proof that they have the same Semitic roots and not much more. But Muslims have not stopped claiming that Jesus never said He was God in the Bible, a fact which has been proven on this blog a (growing) number of times, and so this post is being written. In it we will combine Jesus' pronouncements of His deity with the Muslim love of Aramaic, albeit translated into easily comprehensible English. We will do this simply by quoting the verses in which Jesus unabashedly proclaims that He is God using the translation known as the Aramaic Bible in Plain English. Let's begin with the Gospel of Matthew: But Yeshua immediately spoke with them a...

Why Do Some Muslims Claim That Jesus is Not Good?

Muslims continue to use heretical Jehovah's Witness arguments even though they should know better by now. For instance, the JW misinterpretation of Luke 18:19. Like JWs, Muslims will take this one verse and wrench it out of its Biblical context to try to reject Jesus' claim of deity in the passage. (the original slide is from the slideshow titled "Counterfeit Christs" which may be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/schumacr/counterfeit-christs-cults ) When Muslims cite this verse to try and support their claim that Jesus is not God, they forget that first, by quoting Him, they are admitting that the Lord Jesus did, in fact, speak these words in the Bible. And second, that they are claiming that Jesus, who calls Himself the Good Shepherd in John 10, is somehow saying here that He is not good. This is contrary even to Islamic teaching that, just like the Jesus of the Bible, Muhammad's "Isa" was sinless and righteous. If Muslim...

Why Did the First Muslims Pray Towards Petra?

In his excellent and thought-provoking presentation titled "An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings," Jay Smith points out an intriguing fact... By 624 AD, all mosques were supposed to be facing Mecca. And yet, it took 200 years for Islam to finally get their "unity of direction of prayer" right and point all their mosques towards Mecca. 200 years! Something is obviously wrong here. The historical facts are not tying up with the Islamic sources. That is the reason scholars are now investigating why that is. The Qibla literally means "direction," and in Islam refers to the direction in which a Muslim must pray. Classic Islamic history tells us that Muhammad first taught Muslims to pray towards Jerusalem, but then supposedly received a revelation from Allah changing the direction of prayer to Mecca instead. This change was made in 624 AD. All slides and maps in th...

Messiah, King of the Jews and Gentiles? (Lost Sheep Series)

While Muslims claim that Muhammad followed on the heels of the Biblical prophets, his message was very different from that of the true prophets of God. For instance, Islam claims that the message of Yeshua the Messiah was intended only for the Jews and that He was never sent to minister to the Gentile world, which is known in the Tanakh (Old Testament) as "the nations." The Scriptures as taught by the prophets and encapsulated here in the writings of Islam's arch-enemy, the Apostle Paul, are quite clear on the issue. For example, Paul writes this to the believers in Rome who were comprised of both Jews and Gentiles: 7 Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God. 8 For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers, 9 and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: Therefore I wi...

Where Does Jesus Say, "I Am Not God. Stop Worshiping Me?"

The Bible is so straightforward about the Deity of Christ that those who choose to deny it can only do so by utterly rejecting the Word of God. No one with an objective mind can read the text of the New Testament and come away with any other conclusion than that the Christ that it speaks of is divine. A typical challenge from Muslims to Christians is to produce a verse in which Jesus categorically states, "I am God. Worship Me." We have already covered some of the places where Jesus says He is God in previous articles so, in this one, we will take a look at the many places in the Scriptures where Jesus is worshiped as God. But first let us look at two reactions to worship as exhibited in the New Testament. Luke relates what the Apostle Peter encountered when he visited the home of a Gentile: Acts 10 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him. 26 But Peter helped him ...

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