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The Shocking Truth About Bathsheba’s Marriage to David in the Bible

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June 15, 2020

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم “The Woman Was Very Beautiful”: The Shocking Truth About Bathsheba’s Marriage to David in the Bible Originally posted on the Quran and Bible Blog View Video Summary “From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man… Read More ›

The Age of Marriage and Sex in the Bible

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم The Age of Marriage and Sex in the Bible: Refuting the Lies of Secularized Christian Apologists Originally posted on the Quran and Bible Blog *This article has been slightly modified from its original version* View as PDF YouTube Summaries: Parts 1, 2, & 3             In the modern age, by far… Read More ›

Archbishop Cranmer’s Blog’s Derrière

Archbishop Cranmer got my goat with the following comments in his piece entitled ‘A school for Muslim girls that forbids them the use of toilet paper ‘for cultural reasons’?’: I understand Stoke-on-Trent is shortlisted to be named a ‘City of Culture’. Ah, but which culture? It is disconcerting to hear of a school for Muslim… Read More ›

Nabeel Qureshi’s Death And The Christian Missionaries

The diverse online community of of Muslims and Christians, especially those involved in apologetics on the World Wide Web received the news of the death of Nabeel Qureshi at the age of 34 years old from a “rare and deadly form of stomach cancer”[1] on 16th September 2017 with mixed reactions. It is after all… Read More ›

Revisiting Dinah And Shechem’s Marriage

Not long ago we published an article on Genesis 34, where we showed that Dinah was married off to Shechem. The careful examination we took of the verse in Gen. 34, we found that Dinah at the time of her marriage was no older than 7-years-old. Prophet Jacob is seen in the Bible happily giving… Read More ›

Early Christians Rejected Jesus’s Suffering On The Cross

Kaleef K. Karim In the previous piece, we presented a quotation from the 1st Century of Christianity wherein a group of Christians rejected the crucifixion of Jesus taking place. In this article, we continue to explore further early sources wherein certain groups in early Christianity rejected that Jesus was crucified. The apostolic fathers have frequently… Read More ›

What Was Rebecca’s Age When Given Away In Marriage? “Na’ar”

Kaleef K. Karim In previous two piece articles on Isaac and Rebekah, which can be accessed here and here, we established their respective ages when they were married. We showed from the Bible and ancient scholars that Rebecca was between the ages of 3-10, when she was married off to 40-year-old Isaac. In this article… Read More ›

Christian Apologetics (And Its Problems) In Miniature

Andrew Livingston I have a challenge for my readers. I want you to get on Youtube right now and find any random formal interfaith debate about Jesus. Or at least any debate about his alleged divinity or resurrection—the two most important topics. Feel free to stray as far from the top results of your search… Read More ›

Was Rebekah 3-10 Years Old When Married Off To Isaac?

Kaleef K. Karim The Bible says yes. This article seeks to complement our previous article on the age of Rebecca when she was married off to Isaac. We showed evidence from the Bible, and earliest commentaries on the Bible that Rebecca was married at the age of 3-10 years old to Isaac. Some Christian missionaries… Read More ›

The road to Shur, the origin of the zamzam well? (Rabbi Sa’adiah ben Yosef Gaon)

In the story about the wife of patriach Abraham, Hagar, and his firstbon son, Ishmael, in  the Torah  in Genesis/Bereishit 16:7 it was mentioned about a place named Shur שֽׁוּר. וַֽיִּמְצָאָ֞הּ מַלְאַ֧ךְ יְהוָ֛ה עַל־עֵ֥ין הַמַּ֖יִם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר עַל־הָעַ֖יִן בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ שֽׁוּר An angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on… Read More ›