Guest Post by Lamia Harkati, student at Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan, USA Last weekend, hundreds of people gathered to attend the annual Arab festival in our city of Dearborn, Michigan. As a mixed environment of Muslims and Christians, the festival has become a platform for some […]
This article – which originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post – gives a fascinating insight into the Jewish rejection of idolatry which leads to a bar on entering a church but permits Jews to enter a mosque. In its advocacy for monotheism, the Torah warns of the spiritual perils of idolatry. The legal question of […]
Here we would like to ask Calvinists some questions. If any are reading, feel free to answer them. Question 1: How does God determine the elect? I understand that it is His sovereign will, but is it arbitrary? If not, then how and why not? Question 2: Isn’t it […]
I have just come across a fascinating account of Christians living in the third/ninth century Abbasid Baghdad to be found in the work of Muslim theologian Abu Uthman al-Jahiz (died 255/869) in a letter he wrote to some Muslim friends who had asked for his help against a […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUddkfi7xVk&feature=youtu.be The New Testament of the Bible repeatedly describes Jesus as essentially subordinate to God the Father. In a Speakers’ Corner discussion, Muslim speaker Hashim argues that Jesus cannot be God because he is subordinate to God since: “The head of Christ is God” (1 Corinthians 11:3) and […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 