Islamic Worldview - Part 5

References:

(1) “Christian Apologetics” by Douglas Groothuis.

(2) Islam makes 5 major claims against Christianity: (a) The Bible has been corrupted. (b) Jesus was not crucified. (c) Jesus is not divine. (d) God is not triune. (e) Jesus was merely a prophet of Islam.

(3) Website got questions.org.

(4) Gary Habermas on YouTube gives fundamental facts about the resurrection of Jesus including 4 minimal facts that almost all NT scholars accept and 1 additional fact acknowledged by 75% of NT scholars.
Fact 1. Jesus Himself, not a replacement, died by Roman crucifixion.
Fact 2. Jesus’ disciples believed that Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to them, and they were willing to die for those beliefs.
Fact 3. Paul, the church’s first prosecutor, suddenly became a follower of Christ after an experience that he believed was the risen Jesus appearing to him on the road to Damascus.
Fact 4. James, the brother of Jesus and former skeptic, was suddenly converted from Judaism to Christianity after he believed he had seen the risen Jesus.
Fact 5. Jesus’ tomb was found empty on that Sunday morning after the crucifixion.

This is episode 138.