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The Bible is unquestionably the most heavily scrutinised collection of books ever written. An unfairly high level of textual criticism and evidential bar is applied to the Bible compared to other ancient works and religious texts. The Bible is held to a modern forensic standard that virtually no other document from antiquity could meet. As a Christian, you need access to tools that will allow you to see through misapprehensions, popular fallacies, and sometimes complete mistruths about the Scriptures and Christian or church history. This thread should arm you with what you need. The websites and apps listed below are the weapons you should use to combat the misrepresentations about our faith.

@kingmahdi313d @DrFrankTurek There is absolutely nothing of substance there, it is all poor eisegesis and etymological fallacies. The Isaiah 29 reference is particularly bad. The circularity of Islam remains.

@Anglo_Sanctus @DrFrankTurek Read all my comments in here:

What's the #1 thing Christians should understand about Islam?

@johnpavlovitz If this global experiment is ever overcome, and we see a return to sanity, there needs to be Nuremberg-style trials for anyone complicit. May this be formally presented back to you, and your crocodile tears fall on deaf ears.

These dying white dinosaurs see the asteroid of humanity’s evolution coming for them, and in a naked act of panicked self-preservation, they are firing off one final Hail Mary salvo to try and stave off political extinction. Republicans are furiously dismantling the provisions and protections of the Voting Rights Act for one reason: they assume that white voters will save them. Instead, we must be the ones to end them. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/not-racist-w…

@btbsoco Must be those duty-free Marlboros..

The not so mysterious church fire contagion has come over the channel from France... Any thoughts on what else came over from France that might have brought it here...

@ChaghaalMoadab @D_Tarczynski Why should people who work pay for the ones that don't?

@D_Tarczynski Why should people without kids pay for the ones with the kids?

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@gijoe6pack @GigaBasedDad Unfortunately I'm not the one with an epistemological belief based on cosmic coincidence and random chemistry. "Flawed human reason" is a consequence of your belief system, not mine.

You just used ‘flawed human reason’ to scroll my history, pick which ‘alternate means’ lead to a creator, and decide Scripture is the best reveal. If my reason is untrustworthy unguided chemistry, so is yours. You need God to justify reason… but need reason to get to God. Circular much? Also, my presuppositions function in the real world (observable, testable, falsifiable).

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@VividProwess The church is the successor and continuation of Israel. Israel is the Kingdom of God that was promised in the old covenant, and Christ is on the throne of that Kingdom. The temporal state of Israel established in 1948 is not what the Scripture talks about.

The Bible is clear: those who bless Israel will be blessed.

@wharrrgarrbl @GigaBasedDad Uh, a simpleton. As you were, soldier.

@Anglo_Sanctus @GigaBasedDad No. It means that you don't have hair. Are you really that stupid?

Glad we are in agreement on my initial statement then. I base my faith in Christianity specifically by presuppossing elements of Scripture, correct. However, I am not a theist because of the Bible. You get to a creator by alternate means, then determine how that Creator would most likely reveal themselves. Also, you have no basis on which to make that determination, other than the assumption that's a reasonable thought to have.

@Anglo_Sanctus @GigaBasedDad You build yours similarly off the word of mere men who wrote things down a long time ago that you think good enough to arrange your life around. At least mine can be shown to work and function —yours not so much.

@wharrrgarrbl @GigaBasedDad Correct. A perfect example. The atheist presupposes that because he has no hair, he has no hair colour. However, hair colour is determined by genetics. Lack of hair does not mean you lack hair colour.

@Anglo_Sanctus @GigaBasedDad Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color.

@Idontevenk85653 @GigaBasedDad Only correct if the contary was claimed, theists presuppose too.

@Anglo_Sanctus @GigaBasedDad Presuppositions? oh the irony 🤣🤣🤣

You specifically, after a quick scroll through your reponse history, presuppose human reason. Fallible human beings, matter in motion, firing electrons, unguided chemistry, are able to determine. Why trust the outputs of this imperfect system? You trust the faculties of the flawed human mind and presuppose they are capable of recognising or rejecting truth based on evidence presented. That appears to be the foundation upon which you build your beliefs.

@Anglo_Sanctus @GigaBasedDad Can you outline this belief system based upon presuppositions for us?

@Emann1980 @GigaBasedDad Exactly, something like the big bang theory still presupposes a first cause. Never tell an atheist the big bang theory was theorised by a Roman Catholic priest.

@Anglo_Sanctus @GigaBasedDad Like a Big Bang

@xagreat The avalanche of apostasy.

The rate at which non-Muslims are accepting Islam is incredibly beautiful. About 50,000 Christians in USA accepted Islam in the month of April.

@IslaamWinsAgain @Eyes_WideOpen @GodLogic_GL Where were the seven modes when Uthman held a single set of consonantal text in his hands?

@Anglo_Sanctus @Eyes_WideOpen @GodLogic_GL You refuted yourself in the first sentence. Prophet Muhammad SAS confirmed the Qur-aan was revealed in 7 different ways. ALL the meanings, all the readings, are revealed to him by God. All of them are miraculously preserved in memory to this day. Uthmaan destroyed written errors

So according to Mohammed Hijab, if you've only read the Hafs (most popular) version of the Quran, you've never actually read the ENTIRE Quran. Only PART of the Quran. Hijab is on a historic run of causing shubuhat this month.

The Quran (a single book) can be set aside as an outlier. The books of the Bible reference each other backwards and forwards. They quote each other. They all affirm the overarching narrative. The Quran does not. The validity of the Quran relies on the Prophethood of Muhammad. The Prophethood of Muhammad relies on the Quran. The only circle breaker here is that the Quran attempts to reference back to some of the books in the Bible, but contradicts and misunderstands them. Islam falls down before the first hurdle.

Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God. The Quran teaches that earlier scriptures were from God and even tells people to consult them. Yet its message differs from those same scriptures in key ways.

Except the vast majority of those converts leave the faith. The most common reason they give is the moral character of Muhammad. imamluqman.com/2010/01/13/sev… muslimmatters.org/2018/01/10/in-… Also important to note that Islam loses the same amount of people as it gains. So conversion gives net zero contribution. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20… Islam is only growing by birthrates and immigration.

Around 20,000 Americans CONVERT To Islam Every Year 🇺🇸 ☪️

Muhammad said the Quran was revealed in 7 different ways. Ahruf. After Muhammad's death, Uthman standardised a single consonantal text. All other variations were destoryed. No more Ahruf. As vowelisation occurred, we start seeing differences in readings. Some of these different readings were "authorised" by men (Not the divine, not the prophethood), some were not. These distinct Qurans exist today. Overall meaning intact, yet some minor textual variation, just like the Biblical text. Which of these distinct books is your favourite Quran?

Hijab's actually right here. Classical Islamic scholarship has always taught that the Quran was revealed in multiple ahruf with 10 canonical qira'at all considered authentic and mass transmitted from the Prophet ﷺ. Hafs is just the most popular one today. Saying you've only read part if you stick to Hafs is simply acknowledging the full preserved spectrum of the revelation, not admitting a flaw. It's the same way Christians read one Bible translation/version and call it the whole Bible even though there are textual variants and critical editions. Nuance ≠ shubuha.