Category: Christianity
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Ignaz Goldziher On Islam & Christianity
The Hungarian Islamic Studies scholar of Jewish descent Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921) is widely recognized as the founder (along with only two or three other scholars) of the scientific study of Islam in Europe. Goldziher undoubtedly has an enormous influence in the field of Islamic studies and practically everything he wrote between roughly 1870 and 1920…
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Epileptic Symptoms In The Biblical Prophets?
This is in response to this article by a Christian missionary. Muhammad’s 11 symptoms 1. He experienced ringing in his ears, like bells In their epileptic or psychotic fits which they interpreted as “prophetic” visions, Ezekiel heard “loud thundering noises” (Ezekiel 3:12f); Jeremiah heard “sound of the trumpet” (Jeremiah 4:19); Isaiah heard loud and shrill…
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Excerpt from Tom Harpur’s “For Christ’s Sake”
Conclusion Regarding Christian DoctrinesTom Harpur, For Christ’s Sake, pp. 124-125 I am well aware that in questioning orthodox teaching — the dogmas of the Trinity and the Godhead of Jesus, the divine origins of priestly castes, the necessity of a pyramid-shaped hierarchy, the theory of Atonement, the infallibility of the New Testament documents, and Christianity’s…
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“On The Errors of the Trinity” By Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus was born in Villaneueva in Spain in 1511. He was the son of the local judge. He lived at a time when there was unrest in the established Church, and in a period when everyone was questioning the nature of Christianity. As he grew older and more informed, the young Servetus was appalled…
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John Biddle’s “Twelve Arguments Refuting The Deity of the Holy Spirit”
John Biddle, the Father of Unitarianism in England, was born in 1615. He was a brilliant student and was described as a man who “outran his instructors and became tutor to himself”. He went to the University at Oxford n 1634, was made a B.A. in 1638 and an M.A. in 1641. After leaving Oxford,…