4 Rebuttals to the Muslim Case Against Christianity

4. Is the NT True?, Apologetics, Christianity, christology, debate, Gospel, Islam, Jason Jimenez, Jesus, StandStrongMinistries.Org, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Trinity
What if someone boldly claimed that Jesus himself said He wasn’t God? How would you tackle this intriguing challenge? Let’s dive into this thought-provoking dilemma together. Recently, a viral video titled “Christianity DEBUNKED in Less Than 1 Minute” sparked this very debate presented by a Muslim named Hamza. Essentially, here’s how Hamza frames his argument: If the Father is the only true God, then Jesus cannot be God. If Jesus is God, he must be lying about the Father being the only true God. If Jesus is lying, he cannot be God. Therefore, Jesus debunks Christianity. In this article, I will present four rebuttals to Hamza’s case concerning John 17:3. These responses aim to provide a solid counterargument while offering a reasonable defense and explanation of the divinity of Jesus…
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Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

animations, archival footage, Atheism, Carl Sagan, debate, documentary, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, narrator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, scholars, scientific atheists, scientists, smugness, sound, spokesmen, theism, video
I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Source
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Tribalism in the Evolution Debate

Cornelius Hunter, COVID-19, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin-skeptics, debate, Evolution, Evolution News, faith, falsehoods, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, lies, lying, masks, Michael Behe, Plato's Revenge, propaganda, Richard Sternberg, Rutgers University, science, scientific reasoning, self-preservation, soldiers, tribal affiliation, tribalism, tribe, Warfare Myth
What is all this about “lying”? Cornelius Hunter provides some context at the end of his video that I thought was insightful. Source
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Alex O’Connor Misses The Mark On His Distinction Between Types Of Worship

Alex O’Connor, Apologetics, ChristianConcern.com, Christianity, David Wood, debate, Deity of Christ, Gospel, Latreuo, New Testament, Proskuneo, Sean Redfearn, Theology and Christian Apologetics, worship
A key argument in Alex O’Connor’s debate with David Wood is the distinction Alex draws (in his first rebuttal) between “proskuneo” (Gk: προσκυνέω) worship and “latreuo” (Gk: λατρεύω) worship. Both proskuneo worship and latreuo worship are biblical terms used to describe worship or service to God, but they carry different shades of meaning. Proskuneo means to physically bow down, or prostrate oneself in order to show reverence. Latreuo means to serve or honour in a religious or sacrificial sense. In Romans 12:1 for example, Paul tells us to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice as latreuo to God). The crux of Alex’s argument is that, on these two senses of worship, Jesus never receives latreuo worship in the way that only God does, and there is nothing special about…
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How Stockholm Syndrome Christianity Hinders Scientific Progress

Bible, BioLogos Foundation, Charles Darwin, debate, disagreement, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Francis Collins, free speech, ID The Future, ideology, John West, Podcast, scientific enterprise, scientific materialism, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Language of God, theistic evolution, theology, United States
In a nutshell, theistic evolution is the attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of life’s origins. Source
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Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

atheists, Brian Keating, Catholicism, Christianity, cosmologists, Culture, debate, Design Inference, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Into the Impossible, James Tour, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, natural philosophers, New Atheists, philosophy, proselytizing, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, Toronto, UC San Diego
Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Source
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