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Paul Says That Mark Is Futile : No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel

But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel accord­ing to Mark, appar­ent­ly did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very impor­tant point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were ini­tial­ly divorced from each oth­er and were writ­ten in dif­fer­ent local­i­ties for dif­fer­ent audiences.

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Vir­gins of Par­adise” in Christianity

It has already point­ed out pre­vi­ous­ly that the Ara­bic word hur al-ayn” (houris), mean­ing a beau­ti­ful, volup­tuous woman, was already well known in the…

Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

It is well known that the Gospel of Mark con­tains numer­ous geo­graph­i­cal errors. This is summed up in Küm­mel’s clas­sic, Intro­duc­tion to the New…

Wash­ing of Hands Prac­tised by​“All The Jews”?

There is a prob­lem with this pas­sage, how­ev­er : the rit­u­al wash­ing of hands was oblig­a­tory only on the priests ! So the ques­tion remains, if the author was a native of Pales­tine and a Jew, then how was he so igno­rant of the Jew­ish cus­toms and made such a fun­da­men­tal error regard­ing a prac­tice that was only lim­it­ed to the Jew­ish priests ?

A World­wide Cen­sus under Quirinius ?

There is an attempt by each writer of the Syn­op­tic Gospels to either re-cor­rect or present their own ver­sion of what they per­ceive to…

Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

In Acts 5:36, Gamaliel is record­ed to have said as fol­lows con­cern­ing the Jew­ish revolt of Theudas against the Roman Empire : Pro gar toutoon toon…

The Eclipse of Matthew 27 ?

In the arti­cle His­tor­i­cal Errors in the Qur’an ? I briefly touched upon the events men­tioned in the Gospel of Matthew sur­round­ing the cru­ci­fix­ion of…

Ignored Teach­ings in the New Testament ?

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi While there are so many Old Tes­ta­ment laws which are ignored by Chris­tians, here are a num­ber of New Tes­ta­ment writings…

Bible Com­men­tary on John 10:36

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In John 10:36, we read the fol­low­ing words of Jesus : Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanc­ti­fied, and sent into…

Obser­va­tion of Answer­ing Islam’s Response to​“I AM WHATAM : A Bible Commentary”

Tera Tak Adamar & Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi The mis­sion­ary Sam Shamoun under the ban­ner of the infa­mous mis­sion­ary web­site, Answer­ing Islam, have claimed in…

John 8 and the Birth of Jesus

Fol­low­ing are some obser­va­tions on the curi­ous account of the birth of Jesus which a care­ful study of the Gospels reveal : In John 8:31 ff.,…

Luke 6:1 : Its Cor­rupt­ed & Actu­al Understanding

Asif Iqbal That the text of the New Tes­ta­ment, as we have it today, is loaded with tex­tu­al cor­rup­tions and mis­read­ings is an acknowl­edged fact…

Vain Rep­e­ti­tions” in Prayer ? Exe­ge­sis on Matthew 6:7

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi A Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary wrote that : Jesus said : And when you pray, do not use vain rep­e­ti­tions as the hea­then do. For they…

Ezekiel 23 And Its Dis­gust­ing Language

Does the Bible use lan­guage not fit­ting for God?” This was the ques­tion that a mis­sion­ary rhetor­i­cal­ly posed to his read­ers in an amus­ing but…

Sto­ry of Cre­ation in the Qur’an and Old Testament

The sto­ry of Cre­ation is locat­ed in the first Book of the Old Tes­ta­ment, i.e. in the ear­ly chap­ters of Gen­e­sis. The Old Testament…

Bible Com­men­tary on I Kings 8:27

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In I Kings 8:27, we read that : But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heav­en and heav­en of heavens…

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Nabeel Qureshi (1983 – 2017): The Man­u­fac­tured Mar­tyr of Chris­t­ian Apologetics

Nabeel Qureshi died at the age of 34 years old in 2017 from a rare and dead­ly form of stom­ach can­cer” on 16th of Sep­tem­ber 2017 with mixed reactions. 

Paul Says That Mark Is Futile : No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel

But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel accord­ing to Mark, appar­ent­ly did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very impor­tant point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were ini­tial­ly divorced from each oth­er and were writ­ten in dif­fer­ent local­i­ties for dif­fer­ent audiences.

The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.