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MORE OF MUHAMMAD’S INCOHERENT BABBLE Sunni Islam not only teaches that the Quran is the uncreated speech of Allah ( kalam Allah ), but also claims that there is a pre-creation tablet in which the Quran and everything destined to take place has been written. Sunni tradition further teaches that Allah created a pen which was commanded to write down within this tablet everything that would take place, and the pen did so 50,000 years before the heavens and the earth were brought

In this post I will be quoting from an online Muslim Q&A site, which asserts that the Arabic Quran recited by Muslims and written down is created. These authors/scholars state that the Quran as the speech of Allah is not identical to that which is in the possession of the Muslims. They differentiate between the two in that they argue that Quran as Allah’s speech is uncreated, whereas that which the Muslim masses recite, read and write down is part of the creation.   Note the

The Quran affirms that Jesus is the Word of God and God’s Spirit that was sent down to Mary so as to become incarnate: O People of the Book! Go not beyond the limits in your way of life and say not about God but The Truth: That the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was  a Messenger of God and His Word that He CAST TO Mary and a Spirit FROM HIM . So believe in God and His Messengers. And say not: Three. To refrain yourselves from it   is  better for you. There is  only One God. Glor

In my previous post ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/quran-confirms-christ-s-prehuman-existence-incarnation ), I showed how the Islamic scripture testifies to Jesus being the divine preexistent Word of God that became flesh. Note, for instance, what the following passage states: O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah,  and His Word, which He best

In this post I am going to again highlight the traditional Sunni belief that the Quran is uncreated, having eternally existed with/in Allah, in order to draw out its implications on both the Islamic doctrine of monotheism known as Tauhid , and the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. The following renowned scholar of Islam sums up the Muslim view of the uncreatedness of the Quran, and some of the controversies that arose as a result of this position: The Quran believed to be etern

In a recent encounter that he had with Christian apologist Anthony Rogers one Message Foundation’s chief dawagandist Uthman ibn Farooq employed the same dishonest and deceitful tactics perfected by his god and “prophet”. When Rogers mentioned the hadith stating that the Quran will appear on the day of resurrection as a pale man to intercede for Muslims, Farooq deceptively argued that this narration was weak and therefore not authentic. Watch the following video for the detail

Since Muslims always bring up the issue of God dying as a way of showing Christians the absurdity of their believing that Christ is God who died https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/04/12/can-evangelical-apologists-answer-the-question-how-can-god-die/ , I have decided to turn the tables on them in order to give them a taste of their own medicine.   According to the Quran, every soul ( nafs ) shall necessarily taste death and shall be judged for what it has done: But how will it

I quote from Tertullian’s The Prescription Against Heretics , where he appealed to the Bishops taught and appointed by the holy Apostles to expose the heresies being spread by false teachers and so-called Christians. All emphasis will be mine. Chapter 31. Truth First, Falsehood Afterwards, as Its Perversion. Christ’s Parable Puts the Sowing of the Good Seed Before the Useless Tares. Let me return, however, from this digression to discuss the priority of  truth , and the compa

In this post I will share another one of those Christian fables and legends, which were widespread prior to the rise of Islam and which Muhammad, being an “ear”, heard and adapted in order pass off his lies as revelations from God. The work I will be citing is dated to the sixth century AD. Some date it to around the early part of the seventh century AD, around 630. Yet it is based on earlier traditions, which were already circulating among these Christian groups, and therefo

In this post I will cite select passages from the Aramaic paraphrases of the Torah done by Jews called the Targums ( Targumim ). I will be quoting places where the Jews identify the LORD God mentioned in the textas God’s Word (Aramaic – Memra ). These references establish the fact that non-Christian Jews themselves realized from their reading of the Hebrew Bible that there is another distinct divine Person named the Word who was sent forth to appear and speak to Israel. The N

Noted 2nd -3 rd century AD African writer and apologist Tertullian had much to say in respect to Christ being the God-Man, plainly teaching that there is one divine Person who took on flesh and became Man. He was also a passionate opponent of the heresy of modalism, which taught that the three divine Persons of the Trinity are actually one and the same Person, namely, the Father, who manifested himself in these different modes or ways. In his refutation to one such heretic, T

Some anti-Trinitarians and/or subordinationists like to use St. Irenaeus’ statements in his refutation to the Gnostics where he states that not even the Son knew the hour to prove that this holy bishop did not affirm the Trinity. They argue that his words show that he was at the very least a subordinationist who did not hold to the full divinity of the Son, or his essential coequality with the Father.   However, when we read what Irenaeus wrote in context a whole different pi

The following is taken from the late Dr. Robert A. Morey’s book,  The Trinity: Evidence & Issues , Part II: The Old Testament Evidence, Chapter Eleven. God the Son [Christian Scholar’s Press, Las Vegas, Nevada], pp. 174-187. Chapter Eleven God The Son The next Person in the doctrine of the Trinity is God the Son. Just as we found references in the Old Testament to the Father which revealed that He is a Person and is God, it will not surprise us if we find the same things true

In this short post I will be citing two sources to affirm that words such as  Elohim  (“God”) and  echad  (“one”) were even understood by Jewish authorities as pointing to a plurality within the Godhead, that the one God exists as a plurality of divine powers and manifestations.   Elohim and God’s Uni-plurality I begin by looking at what the rabbis had to say concerning the term Elohim. The following somewhat lengthy quote is taken from the late Rev. Sam Stern who wrote that:

The following verse functions as the creed, or confession of faith, which the Israelites were to live by: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God  is  one ( echad ) Lord:” Deuteronomy 6:4 Oftentimes, anti-Trinitarians will cite this text as proof that God is a singular Person , not just a singular Being , in order to show that Trinitarianism is incompatible with the biblical revelation, particularly with the [O]ld [T]estament’s proclamation of Jehovah being one eternal divine Perso

A particular Muslim polemicist raised the following objection in response to the Christian understanding that the Hebrew word echad , which Deuteronomy 6:4 uses to describe the oneness of God, actually points to God being a complex or compound unity, as opposed to existing as a singular or absolute one: “Both yachid and echad can both be used in the absolute sense and in the compound sense. Just like the word ONE in English. When the Hebrew says Abraham was one (echad) person

In this post ( God in the Garden of Eden Pt. 1 ) , I am going to show from the context of Genesis 3 itself that the LORD God who appeared to Adam and Eve was the prehuman Lord Christ. Here is the relevant part of Genesis 3: “ They HEARD Yahweh God’s VOICE (qol YHWH Elohim) WALKING in the garden in the cool of the day , and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where ar

The following article focuses on establishing the Deity of the Holy Spirit from the King James Version of the Holy Bible (KJV), also known as the Authorized Version (AV). I pray that this will bless Christians in their efforts to evangelize the lost, as they try to convince people to believe in Jesus Christ as their risen Lord and divine Savior. JEHOVAH GOD  The Holy Bible identifies the Holy Spirit as Jehovah God, while also referring to him as the Spirit of Jehovah. For ins

More Evidence for God’s Uni-Plurality from the Hebrew Scriptures In this post I am going to provide further proofs from the Old Testament that the prophets knew and spoke of the one true God existing as a plurality of divine Persons, as opposed to being a uni-personal monad. My evidence comes from the following texts from Genesis: “For God ( Elohim ) knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God (kelohim), knowing good and evil .” Genesis 3:

Another OT Appearance of the Prehuman Christ As promised ( Trinity in Genesis 3:5 & 22 ), in this post I am going to show that the Lord God who appeared to Adam and Eve in the garden was actually the preincarnate Christ. According to the NT writings, the Lord Jesus is the eternal Word of God who makes God known to mankind. The God-breathed Scriptures are equally clear that no person can know God apart from the revelation of the Son, i.e., God’s Son must reveal God to man othe