Islam

Understanding Islam as a major world religion and its relationship to Christian faith. This category explores Islamic history, core teachings, beliefs about God and Jesus, the Quran, and key differences from Christianity. Includes comparative theology, respectful engagement with Islamic thought, biblical responses to Islamic claims, and how Christians can understand and witness to Muslims with both truth and compassion.

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Islam

Another Jesus and Another Spirit - Weighing the God of the Quran by Scripture's Own Test

The claim that the god of Islam is not merely a different concept of God but the direct work of the adversary is one of the oldest charges Christians have laid against Islam, and it is one of the most frequently mishandled. The usual version of the argument assembles a

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41 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Paradise or the Face of God

This post takes up what both Christianity and Islam say lies on the other side of death, and then draws the whole comparison together. Both affirm a literal, bodily resurrection and a real day of judgment — a genuine point of agreement against the many worldviews that deny both. What separates

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Can Good Deeds Outweigh Your Sin?

This post takes the two doctrines, Christianity vs Islam, together, in that order, because the diagnosis determines the cure. What a religion says is wrong with human beings decides in advance what it can offer as a remedy. Islam teaches that every person is born in a state of fitrah

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Has the Bible Been Corrupted?

Behind every doctrinal disagreement between Christianity and Islam stands a prior question: which book tells the truth, and on what basis? Islam teaches that the Qur'an confirms the earlier scriptures while correcting and superseding them, and that the Bible Christians hold today has been altered from what Allah

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Is the Holy Spirit an Angel?

Both Christianity and Islam use the phrase "the Holy Spirit," and that shared vocabulary conceals one of the widest gaps between them. In mainstream Islamic belief, the Holy Spirit is the angel Gabriel — a created being, honored and powerful, but a creature. In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is

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4 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Jesus Islam Cannot Accept

Of all the points where Christianity and Islam diverge, none is sharper than the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Islam honors him highly — virgin-born, called the Messiah, a worker of miracles by Allah's permission — while insisting he is a created human prophet who was neither divine nor

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Is Allah the God of the Bible?

This post addresses the most foundational question of all, the one on which every other disagreement between the two faiths ultimately depends: who is God? Islam answers with Tawhid, the absolute and indivisible oneness of Allah. Christianity answers with the Trinity — one God eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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