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  • Isa’s Radical Claim: The Crescent and the Cross Part 3; Considering Isa’s Words in John 5:17-24

    Isa’s Radical Claim: The Crescent and the Cross Part 3; Considering Isa’s Words in John 5:17-24

    Dates matter. The earliest copy we have of John 5 is in Papyrus 66, which includes nearly the whole of John’s Gospel. This papyrus has survived since about the year A.D. 200. Muhammad affirmed the Gospels as they were written in about A.D. 610. This means Muhammad affirmed this story about Jesus as we have…

  • The Miracle at Bethesda: The Crescent and the Cross Part 2; Considering Isa’s Words in John 5:1-16

    The Miracle at Bethesda: The Crescent and the Cross Part 2; Considering Isa’s Words in John 5:1-16

    I believe the best way to read any story is in its historical and grammatical context. Instead of dogmatically imposing our presuppositions onto the text, to try as best we can to read it for what it is. That is how I treated the passages in the Quran in the previous chapter. It is how…

  • Peace Be Upon You: The Crescent and the Cross Part 1

    Peace Be Upon You: The Crescent and the Cross Part 1

    For fifteen hundred years, Muslims and Christians have been at each other’s throats. Truthfully, I have many mixed feelings about the tensions we have between us. It reminds me much of the tensions between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism or Christianity and Atheism. Our groups tend to debate each other or flat out mock each other.…

  • God’s Law, Just Society, and Our Dishonest Gain: Reflecting on the Plea of Psalm 119

    God’s Law, Just Society, and Our Dishonest Gain: Reflecting on the Plea of Psalm 119

    In psalm 119 so far, the psalmist As the psalmist reflects on the Law of God, he continues, Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not to dishonest gain (Psalm 119:36).  Since the psalmist sees the Law of God as opposite dishonest gain, we get to ask another question of God’s Law–Does God’s Law actually…

  • Thinking Biblically About the Alien, Man-Made Politics Aside

    Thinking Biblically About the Alien, Man-Made Politics Aside

    People always assume their agendas are correct and are quick to accuse people who don’t agree with them as being completely godless. Not many people today really try to understand someone else’s position. They simply draw caricatures and criticize those caricatures in ways that don’t actually help anyone. They only accomplish the heightening of other’s…

  • Worldview War

    Worldview War

    It is Fig Monday, and Jesus is being tested. He started teaching and healing people in the temple. A group of Pharisees tried to question His authority. After they failed, they sent their students with the Herodians to entrap Jesus—to prove He was no real teacher. Instead, they departed marveling because of Jesus’s teaching. The…

  • God’s Just Judgment in Revelation

    God’s Just Judgment in Revelation

    All of creation is perpetually measured by the standard of God’s holy righteousness. What is our place? Who is worthy to announce the Father’s just verdict? What hope do we have if we have all sinned and God must judge justly? Revelation 5:1-10 I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the…

  • Why Did God Give the Law?

    Why Did God Give the Law?

    The Ten Commandments are a staple in Scripture. They are given, many times, as a requirement for the Christian life. They are presented, by some, as a sort of requirement for salvation. It is claimed by some that before Christ, people were saved by the keeping of the Law (which is represented by the Ten…