Some associate Jesus with divinity because he performed miracles.  Many Unitarian Christians and all Muslims point out that Jesus did indeed perform miracles, but by the will of God and not through any divine powers of his own.  To repeat the quote of Acts 2:22: “Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you […]

Christian clergy openly acknowledge that Jesus never called himself “son of God,” however they claim that others did.  This too has an answer. Investigating the manuscripts that make up the New Testament, one finds that the alleged “sonship” of Jesus is based upon the mistranslation of two Greek words—pais and huios, both of which are

Jesus Freaks (Recollections of a convert to Islam) When I was a child, growing up in the sixties and seventies just a few blocks away from the notorious Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, I was surrounded by the hippie movement. It was a “turn on, tune in, drop out” age of sexual freedom, cultural revolution

Biblical Inaccuracy and John 3:16 (Part 2 of 5) In this article we continue our examination of Biblical inaccuracy, taking as an example the famous verse, John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Something that

Biblical Inaccuracy and John 3:16 (Part 3 of 5) The following is a summary of what we have covered to date in this series of articles: Episode 1: The gospel known as ‘John’ almost certainly was not written by the disciple John; Episode 2: Bible translators illegitimately capitalized ‘him’ in John 3:16 (“For God so

(Part 4 of 5) The lynchpin of John 3:16 and, for that matter, of the entire Christian concept of redemption by faith, is the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. John 3:16 tells us: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but

Biblical Inaccuracy and John 3:16 (Part 5 of 5) To recap, in the last four episodes of this series we discussed the following regarding John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”: The Gospel book of

John 3:16 – Now what do you say to THAT, you stupid heathen? (Part 7 of Dr. Laurence Brown’s refutation of John 3:16) Okay, you’ve got the format of these articles by now, right? Here’s John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him

The concept of original sin is completely foreign to Judaism and Eastern Christianity, having achieved acceptance in only the Western Church. Furthermore, Christian and Islamic concepts of sin are virtual opposites with respect to certain nuances. For example, there is no concept of “sinning in the mind” in Islam; to a Muslim, an evil thought

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” —Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Son of God, son of David, or son of Man?  Jesus is identified as “son of David” fourteen times in the New Testament, starting with the very first verse (Matthew