Is Muhammad mentioned in the Bible?
Is Muhammad mentioned in the Bible? The Qur’an’s claim, the name Ahmad, and the passages Muslims read: Deuteronomy 18, the Paraclete and Isaiah 42.
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Theology
Beliefs about God, revelation and salvation across the traditions.
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Deuteronomy 18:18: the prophet like Moses
Deuteronomy 18:18 promises a prophet like Moses from among Israel’s brethren. How Christians and Muslims read it, and why Muslims see in it the…
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Gog and Magog, the Antichrist and the Dajjal
Gog and Magog in Ezekiel, Revelation and the Qur’an, and the deceiver of the last days: the Antichrist of the New Testament and the…
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What does ‘begotten’ mean? John 3:16 and the Qur’an
What does ‘only begotten Son’ mean in John 3:16? The Greek word, the creed of Nicaea, and the Qur’an’s answer that God neither begets…
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Can a Muslim marry a Christian? Interfaith marriage
Can a Muslim marry a Christian or a Jew? The Qur’an’s rule, the rights Islamic law gave the wife, and how Jewish and Christian…
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What the Qur’an says about the Torah, Psalms and Gospel
The Tawrah, the Zabur and the Injil: how the Qur’an honours the scriptures given to Moses, David and Jesus, and how it stands as…
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Is Allah the God of the Bible?
Is Allah the same God as the God of the Bible? The Arabic word, the Arabic Bible, and the Qur’an’s declaration that the God…
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The Messiah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
What does Messiah mean? Mashiach, Christos and al-Masīḥ: the anointed one in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the Qur’an’s account of Jesus as Messiah.
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Religious law in the Abrahamic traditions: halakhah, canon law and the sharīʿah
Jewish halakhah, Christian canon law, the Islamic sharīʿah and the Mandaean rules of purity: what each is, where it comes from, and what the…
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The Islamic Dilemma: the argument and the answer
If the Gospel is the word of God, Islam is false; if it is not, Islam is still false. The Islamic Dilemma at its…
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The Islamic Dilemma: answers for Reddit readers
Short, sourced answers to the questions people search for about the Islamic Dilemma: Surah 5:46, 5:47, 10:94, and whether the Qur’an or the Bible…
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Nicaea, 325: the council, the creed and the church beneath the lake
Archaeologists at Iznik have found the earlier church beneath the lakeside basilica. What the Council of Nicaea decided there, how it ranked the great…