Warning: If you are offended by icons of Muhammad, you may not want to click “Read more”.
I’ve talked about iconoclasm in Islam briefly a few months ago and recently stumbled upon an icon of Muhammad that most modern day Iranian Shi’as have in their homes. I found the similarities between this and an Orthodox icon of Christ Pantocrator striking. The photo to the left is an icon from St. Catherine’s monastery in Sinai from the 6th-7th century.
Many Muslims claim that the Qur’an contains scientific information that could not have been known during the time that it was written and, as a result of this, believe that the Qur’an must be divine revelation. Here I will address some of the more common “scientific miracle” verses of the Qur’an that are presented in this leaflet. I will attempt to demonstrate that these verses are often either drawn from the Bible or misinterpreted to seem as though they contain some sort of miraculous scientific knowledge.
The doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation have, understandably, been a stumbling block to most Muslims who have only ever understood God as one in essence and person. While many assume this sort of absolute monotheism is the norm among monotheistic faiths, it actually has not been—modern Judaism and Islam are the only two faiths that emphasize absolute monotheism.
My upcoming series on monotheism is going to address these issues more in depth, but I will touch upon them a bit here and then get into what the Incarnation actually means.
Now that the reliability of the Qur’an has been covered, I will address the reliability of the New Testament. As someone who often discusses the NT with Muslims, I have noticed that people share many of the same misconceptions about the New Testament. I will address these “Islamic myths” that come up so often.
Islam Meets Orthodoxy 