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Appollos

Aug 15 2018

Examining Lucas’ Blunders Concerning John 1:1

Lucas Bashir Samson wrote an article concerning the deity of Jesus Christ portrayed in John 1:1. Looking at the fact that Lucas has no training in Biblical Greek at all, it somehow sound strange that he started to blast the Bible Scholars (who are specially trained in Biblical Greek) as liars! Well, a quick glance at the article inspired me to join Anthony Rogers in the “Muslim Apologists say the dumbest things” series. I guess this is Lucas edition of the series.

Let us hear from Lucas himself:

It is the behaviour of Trinitarian Christians to unhesitatingly quote John 1:1 to prove Jesus is God. Unfortunately, the Greek texts disprove this claim and the translation of the KJV is in discordance with the Greek texts. The NWT gives the translation as “In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was a god”… This is the correct translation though many do not want the ‘Jesus-Is-God’ illusion they had created for themselves to be destroyed. Before dealing with the texts itself, I would like to firstly use reasoning to annul the claim the word is God.

Response

Running to the Jehovah Witness will not help your case at all. Let us look at the NWT rendering of the Greek text:

“In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was a god”

John 1:1 New World Translation

This is a perversion of the Biblical monotheism! I am very sure that Apostle John will be very furious if he was shown the vision of the Jehovah Witness perversion of the Greek text. After all the OT is very clear:

Fear all of you not, neither be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? all of you are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. – Isaiah 44:8

“SEE now that I-I am he And there are no gods together with me.” – Deuteronomy 32:39

After all, Apostle John was very clear when he reported:

And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. – John 17:3

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. – 1 John 5:20

More concerning the Greek of John 1:1 will follow shortly. More

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24 quran real

Jul 9 2018

The 24 Qur’an Campaign

Right from the beginning of this year, we had a plan to purchase and bring in about 24 Arabic readings of the Qur’an and engage our Muslims friends with them. We discovered that most Muslims we engage are not familiar with the textual history of their books, and they ignorantly attack that of the Bible.

Muslims worldwide have been told and re-told that the Qur’an is one, whatever that means, they have been told that it is not like the Bible that has been edited, and changed over time, in fact, the most common word they used is the term corrupted.

In the light of this claim, we are planning on bringing in 24 arabic readings of the Qur’an so we can show these to the Muslims and hear from them how the Qur’an has been perfectly preserved. Some Muslim Apologist allege that the readings are nothing new and that they go back to the prophet of Islam, they even go as far as claiming that the readings does not change the meaning of the text, instead compliment it and that the Qur’an has not changed even to the dot or letter.

We need your support so we can make this a reality, you can support us in two ways:

  • You can send us any of the Qur’an if you have access to them online, you can send us a mail on the shipping address that this will be sent to.
  • You can support us financially so we get to buy them as well, any of the gestures will be truly appreciated.

Please find below, the short video made for this purpose.

Here are the links to the two websites where these Qur’ans can be purchased, if you do like to get them and send to us, please do mail us for shipping address.

http://www.daralfiker.com/taxonomy/term/45

http://www.easyquranstore.com

You can get in touch with us through our email: info@seasonedapologist.com

Thanks.

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abraham and jesus

Jun 28 2018

Who did Abraham See?

The Holy Scriptures emphatically teach that Yahweh God Almighty personally appeared to Abraham on several occasions:

“Yahweh APPEARED to Abram and said, ‘I will give this land to your offspring.’ He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had APPEARED to him.” Genesis 12:1 World English Bible (WEB)
“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh APPEARED to Abram, and said to him, ‘I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.’… When he finished talking with him, God WENT UP from Abraham.” Genesis 17:1, 22 WEB
“God spoke to Moses, and said to him, ‘I am Yahweh;and I APPEARED to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.’” Exodus 6:2-3 WEB
“He said, ‘Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory APPEARED to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,’” Acts 7:2 WEB
We are even told that on one of those occasions Yahweh appeared to Abraham in human form accompanied by two angels, and actually ate the food that the patriarch had prepared for him and the two messengers:
“YAHWEH APPEARED TO HIM by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that THREE MEN stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,and said, ‘My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.’ They said, ‘Very well, do as you have said.’ Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, ‘Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.’Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate. They asked him, ‘Where is Sarah, your wife?’ He said, ‘See, in the tent.’ HE SAID, ‘I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.’ Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.Sarah laughed within herself, saying, ‘After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?’ YAHWEH SAID TO ABRAHAM, ‘Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.’ Then Sarah denied it, saying, ‘I didn’t laugh,’ for she was afraid. HE SAID, ‘No, but you did laugh.’ THE MEN rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.YAHWEH SAID, ‘Will I hide from Abraham what I do,since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.’YAHWEH SAID, ‘Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.’ The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham STOOD YET BEFORE YAHWEH.Abraham came near, and said, ‘Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?’ YAHWEH SAID, ‘If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.’Abraham answered, ‘See now, I have taken it on myself TO SPEAK TO THE LORD, although I am dust and ashes.What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?’ HE SAID, ‘I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.’ He spoke to him yet again, and said, ‘What if there are forty found there?’ HE SAID, ‘I will not do it for the forty’s sake.’ He said, ‘Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?’ HE SAID, ‘I will not do it, if I find thirty there.’ He said, ‘See now, I have taken it on myself TO SPEAK TO THE LORD. What if there are twenty found there?’ HE SAID, ‘I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.’ He said, ‘Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there? HE SAID, ‘I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.’ YAHWEH WENT HIS WAY, AS SOON AS HE HAD FINISHED COMMUNING WITH ABRAHAM, and Abraham returned to his place.” Genesis 18:1-33 WEB
“Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had STOOD BEFORE Yahweh.” Genesis 19:27 WEB

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lot in the quran

Jun 27 2018

The Gospel Accounts and the Qur’an Narratives.

One of the themes ever present in Christian Muslim debate circles and discussions revolve around the allegation that the Gospel accounts developed overtime. Muslim Dawah preachers and skeptics of the Bible theorize this before turning it into a hardcore argument.

For those who are not familiar with this line of argument, let me first paint a picture to help explain better. The assumption is that when the Synoptic writers – Matthew, Mark and Luke, narrate an event, one of them gets it right and the other wrong, or that one is taking the story of another and developing it into something else that is foreign to the other writers. This what Scholars in the academia refer to as the “Synoptic Problem.” However, aside what is being debated in the academia, my aim here is to examine the case against the Bible regularly posited by the Muslims on this matter. More

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