This is in reference to Aries Musnandar’s letter titled “Why do you defend Ahmadiyah?” (the Post, May 4). Protestantism and Catholicism are not two different religions. They are two different strains of the same faith (Christianity), in the same way that Shia, Sunni, Alawi, Sufi and Ahmadiyah Islam are all […]
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, an opportunity for Americans, regardless of their faith or beliefs, to show appreciation for mothers. All three Abrahamic faiths — Islam, Christianity and Judaism — recognize the importance of mothers from their faith perspectives. Islam takes it a step further, by classifying duty to mothers and […]
This is something Sensational! The Government of India’s Film Division has now come up with a Documentary on the Reality of “Jesus in India!” The 52 mins documentary is called “The Rozabal Shrine of Srinagar.” It has tonnes of evidence put together in a very constructive way. Day […]
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI beatified Pope John Paul II before 1.5 million faithful in St. Peter’s Square and surrounding streets Sunday, moving the beloved former pontiff one step closer to possible sainthood in one of the largest turnouts ever for a Vatican Mass. The crowd in Rome and […]
Jesus did not die on the cross. He was put on the cross, but survived. He was in coma when taken off the cross and was later able to escape as is evidenced from the empty tomb. My two billion Christian brethren and sisters need to find a new religion. May I […]
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Jordanian antiquities authorities have announced the recovery of several lead-sealed texts which they believe will prove whether a cache of metal books represent the oldest Christian writings ever discovered are authentic or well-crafted forgeries. According to Department of Antiquities Director Ziad Saad, security services recovered […]
Since my visits to Hawaii islands and Bermuda, starting in 2004, I have become a staunch believer in evolution, by which I mean common descent of all living beings on the planet earth. The two main proofs for the theory of evolution are molecular biology and biogeography. We do not have […]
It seems that in the first century Roman Empire the use of divine metaphors for humans was not uncommon. In the case of Jesus Christ the Church took these metaphors too seriously and literally. Prof. Bart Ehrman says: “Apollonius lived at about the same time as Jesus, although they never […]
Now that the celebrations are over, let us examine the facts about the Christian Easter story. It mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in the Google knol linked here. But, please do not get very upset. Veneration and awe of the Transcendent is inherent in human nature, but […]
by Eveline Kobler, swissinfo.ch The new Swiss president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences tells swissinfo.ch about the challenges of squaring religious faith with science. Werner Arber, an Aargau-born microbiologist and geneticist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is the first Protestant to hold the position. The 81-year-old […]
The leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, will use his Easter message later to attack “aggressive secularism”. It was something Pope Benedict warned about on his state visit to Britain last year. Cardinal O’Brien will say the enemies of Christianity want to “take God from the […]
I am a self-appointed ambassador to all the Christians in the West and have a collection of 100 Google knols on different aspects of Christianity, for your benefit. Why to those only in the West? The short answer is that those in the East are not free to think for themselves, they will follow […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Contents Jesus did not die on the cross: If Jesus did not die upon the cross: A study […]
All Christian apologists try to make a rational case for resurrection of Jesus, but irrationality and bait and switch is the name of their game. I have covered this extensively in a Google knol titled, ‘William Lane Craig makes false claims about swoon hypothesis.’ I have argued for the swoon […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Sola scriptura is the doctrine that the Bible contains all knowledge necessary for salvation and holiness. Consequently, sola scriptura demands that only those doctrines are to be admitted or confessed that are found directly within or indirectly […]