Red Sky at Morning
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Truth has nothing to fear from cross examination, and I have enjoyed the robust debates and the research it led me to on some of the critiques of the Bible text that have been brought up.
Obviously these are emotive topics that bring up defensiveness and sadly rudeness and lack of respect from all participants in such discussions. The truth movement contains many people with big mouths and sometimes small hearts. When it comes to matters that are sacred to people and on which their lives are based, "sharing truth in love" has never been more important.
The threads that came from my conversations with Muslims over the text and historical reliability of the Bible are here:-
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/deceit-the-jesuits-and-an-ancient-codex.393/
And later:
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/the-critical-text-criticized.3461/
For more than 150 years, scholars who have questioned the Bible's dating, historical accuracy, scientific claims and even the existence of a real Jesus have been active. From the RV of Westcott and Hort through the "Dynamic Equivalence" of Eugene Nyder and Bart Ehrman and the "Jesus Seminar". Many Bible believing Christians have taken on those critiques and are stronger and more informed for their investigations.
This thread is intended to apply that same cross examination to Islam. I will be posting up materials that I believe to be respectful and hopefully incisive on topics that should be taken seriously. If you were going to cross a lake on a boat, you would want to know if there were holes in it...
Obviously these are emotive topics that bring up defensiveness and sadly rudeness and lack of respect from all participants in such discussions. The truth movement contains many people with big mouths and sometimes small hearts. When it comes to matters that are sacred to people and on which their lives are based, "sharing truth in love" has never been more important.
The threads that came from my conversations with Muslims over the text and historical reliability of the Bible are here:-
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/deceit-the-jesuits-and-an-ancient-codex.393/
And later:
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/the-critical-text-criticized.3461/
For more than 150 years, scholars who have questioned the Bible's dating, historical accuracy, scientific claims and even the existence of a real Jesus have been active. From the RV of Westcott and Hort through the "Dynamic Equivalence" of Eugene Nyder and Bart Ehrman and the "Jesus Seminar". Many Bible believing Christians have taken on those critiques and are stronger and more informed for their investigations.
This thread is intended to apply that same cross examination to Islam. I will be posting up materials that I believe to be respectful and hopefully incisive on topics that should be taken seriously. If you were going to cross a lake on a boat, you would want to know if there were holes in it...