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Click here for previous session        How it is to say "What Allah may will and you (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) may will"    Qutailah (May Allah be pleased with him) narrated: A Jew came to the Prophet...

Click here for previous session     When all else fails, John 10:30 relates Jesus as having said, “I and the Father are one.” Short, succinct, to the point, and terribly flawed. In this verse, the manuscript Greek for the English “one” is heis. 139 This word also occurs in John 17:11 and 17:21­23. John 17:11 reads, “Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given me, that they may be one as we are” (italics mine). Literal or metaphorical? John 17:21 reinforces the metaphor with the words, “That they  all may be one, as You, Father, are in me, and I in You, that they  also may be...

Click here for previous session     What is said about the One who is not satisfied with an Oath taken by Allah's Name Ibn Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) narrated that Allah's Messenger (May the peace and blessing of...

Click here for previous session     Not much. The New Catholic Encyclopedia states, “In the Gospels evidence of the Trinity is found explicitly only in the baptismal formula of Mt 28:19.” 137 And what is the baptismal formula of Matthew 28:19? In this verse, Jesus commands his disciples, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” This being the only gospel verse that explicitly mentions the Father, son and holy spirit together, 138 we should not be surprised to find it echoed in Paul’s teachings—“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all”...

Click here for previous session     ("Do not set up rivals unto Allah...") Allah the Almighty said: "Do not set up rivals (Al-Andad) unto Allah (in worship) while you know (that He Alone has the right to be worshipped)." (2:22) With reference to...

Click here for previous session     Dr. C.J. Scofield, D.D., backed by eight other Doctorates of Divinity, asserts the above even more clearly in his footnote to this verse: “It is generally agreed that this verse has no manuscript authority and has been inserted.”131 “Generally agreed”? In the words of Professors Kurt and Barbara Aland, “A glance at the data in the critical apparatus of Nestle­Aland (which is exhaustive for this passage) should make any further comment unnecessary to demonstrate the secondary nature of this addition and the impossibility of its being at all related to the...

Click here for previous session     (Recognizing the Grace of Allah, yet denying it is disbelief) Allah the Almighty said: "They recognize the Grace of Allah, yet they deny it (by worshipping others besides Allah) and most of them are disbelievers (deny...

Click here for previous session     To begin with, Jesus taught the oneness of God, “Jesus answered him, ‘The first of all the commandments is: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” This is the first commandment.’” (Mark 12:29­30). Not only did Jesus stress importance by sandwiching his words between the repeated “This is the first commandment,” but the importance of this teaching is equally stressed in Matthew 22:37 and Luke 10:27. Recognizing the continuity from Judaism, Jesus conveyed his teaching from Deuteronomy 6:4­5 (as acknowledged in all reputable...

Click here for previous session     (Whosoever denies any of the Names and Attributes of Allah) Allah the Most Exalted said: "... and they disbelieve in the Most Beneficent (Allah) Say: "He is my Lord! La ilaha ilIa Huwa (none has...

Click here for previous session     Other  elevate Paul to sainthood. Joel Carmichael very clearly is not one of them: We are a universe away from Jesus. If Jesus came “only to fulfill” the Law and the Prophets; If he thought that “not an iota, not a dot” would “pass from the Law,” that the cardinal commandment was “Hear, O Israel, the Lord Our God, the Lord is one,” and that “no one was good but God.” … What would he have thought of Paul’s handiwork! Paul’s triumph meant the final obliteration of the historic Jesus; he comes to us embalmed in Christianity like a fly in amber. 125 While many authors have pointed out the...