8. The Formative Years. Muhammad was raised in the desert. It was the custom of his people to send children to barren places such as this to learn the "beauty of speech" of the desert people and a host of other lessons. For up to eight years a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Annunciation and Birth. Recall that the Islamic author I am following, Martin Lings, is using the best sources available to chronicle the life of Muhammad. But we have no extant copies of these sources until over 200 years after Muhammad's death....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The City and the House. Muhammad grew up in a pagan setting, believing that the Kabah of holy Mecca was the house of God. Later people would come to believe that this Meccan shrine had originated with Adam, had been destroyed, and then been...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
5. Setting. Muhammad was born and raised in the land of Arabia. Seventh-century Arabia was a land of many gods, punctuated here and there with Jewish and Christian communities. The Christianity that came to represent Jesus in that area however was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Continued from last post: the genealogy of Jesus The line of Jesus is simpler, although many have struggled with these genealogies in the Bible. You will see in the above post the direction Muhammad takes from Abraham, namely through Ishmael. The...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
4. Genealogy. Jesus entered the human family through the Promised Son of Abraham, Isaac. The Scriptures are painfully clear about this, showing how Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar tried to manipulate the plan of God, and help God keep His promise by...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Ezekiel study has been finalized this week. Part 5 AND the collection of ALL FIVE PARTS in one volume are both available right here at the sermonaudio store. Just click on STORE on my main page to access both books. Here is the complete study...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The prophesied one. Once more the Muhammad side of this comparison of Jesus to the Islamic founder is sadly lacking. It is true that there were rumors floating around Arabia of a coming prophet. Israel in particular had been expecting a prophet to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
2. From eternity. As I indicated earlier, it's not really a fair comparison, Jesus and Muhammad. Nowhere is this inequality greater than in the Jesus Who has lived for all time. How can I compare Jesus, this eternal one, to Muhammad, the mortal?...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
INTRODUCTION There was a man named Muhammad. And there was a man named Jesus Christ. These two men call for your allegiance, one out of the history books, one by His ever-living Spirit. Their sayings and their lives are in total contradiction to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
