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Does the Qur’an validate the New Testament? by Rudolph P. Boshoff

  In the previous debate, I tried to show that from a cursory reading of the Qur'an, it is undeniable that it speaks positively about the Christian Scriptures. Unfortunately, due to loadshedding in South Africa, my internet line was unstable and I could not really anticipate the other speaker's questions and opinions. So let me start by showing you what the Qur'an says.   The Qur'an's respectful view of the Bible. The Qur'an says that [...]

By |2022-10-18T12:10:34+02:00Oct 18th, 2022|Muslim Objections Answered, New Testament Reliability, Quran, The Bible|0 Comments
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The New Testament Canon: Man-Made of Divine? Notes on my debate with Adnan Rashid.

Recently I was invited to speak to Ustad Adnan Rashid on the topic, "The New Testament Canon: Man-made or Divine?" Even though text-critical issues are not my forte, I thought a discussion on the temperament of the New Testament community would be something interesting to discuss with Adnan. The five ways in which I wanted to answer the question of this debate were in the following sequence: The nature of Christian inspiration in that which [...]

By |2022-08-30T05:00:37+02:00Aug 27th, 2022|Church History, Holy Books, New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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Were the authors of the Canonical Gospels Illiterate? by Bobby Freddy

Yes, says Attorney Yusuf Ismail of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI Durban South Africa) On Saturday night (20th Oct 2018) in a dialogue, Attorney Yusuf Ismail asked: *How Can One Prove and Say The Gospel Is From Authentic Eye Witnesses when Jesus's Disciples, who were Mere Unschooled Fishermen; Could Suddenly Communicate In Authentic Oral and Written Greek?* (Attorney Yusuf Ismail – IPCI) Despite responding to him in Oct 2018 he repeats this argument again [...]

By |2020-11-26T07:46:01+02:00Nov 25th, 2020|Church History, New Testament Reliability|2 Comments
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Evaluation of Dr Sayyed’s presentation, “Is the Bible God’s Word?” (Part 3) by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff.

5 minute read: In my previous article, I have shown that the central didactic of Dr. Sayyed is seemingly lacking in both fairness and objective scholarship. Dr. Sayyed seems to ask questions around inspiration and infallibility of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures that seem to conflict with his own presumed worldview. Here is part 3 looking at his suggested claims: Dr. Sayyed mentions, "Scribes changed as they pleased." He then quotes Dr. Bruce Metzger, quoting Church Father [...]

By |2021-03-11T15:32:15+02:00Jul 9th, 2019|Muslim Objections Answered, New Testament Reliability, The Bible|0 Comments
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Evaluation of Dr Sayyed’s presentation, “Is the Bible God’s Word?” (Part 2) by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

5 Minute read: In my previous article, I have shown that the central didactic of Dr. Sayyed is seemingly lacking in both fairness and objective scholarship. Dr. Sayyed seems to ask questions around the inspiration and infallibility of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures that seem to be in conflict with his own presumed worldview. [1] Here is part 2 looking at his suggested claims:  Who is making the claim that the Bible is God’s Word? Or from [...]

By |2020-03-13T17:55:10+02:00May 23rd, 2019|Muslim Objections Answered, New Testament Reliability, The Bible|0 Comments
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Jesus, God, and the Qur’an, on the Christian Scriptures by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

5 Minute read: In my recent discussion with Dr. Sayyed on the question, ‘Is the Bible God’s Word’ my central claim was that ultimately we can only answer that question once we have endeavored to look at the claims of Jesus as a true Prophet. My very central claim against Dr. Sayyed’s presentation, in fact, was threefold and I will briefly outline my argument in this article. First, we need to ask the question concerning [...]

By |2021-08-14T23:53:22+02:00Apr 16th, 2019|Holy Books, Muslim Objections Answered, New Testament Reliability, The Bible|0 Comments
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A discussion about the version of the Bible available to Muhammad by Prof. Henk G. Stoker & Paul Derengowski

ABSTRACT It is a mandate that all Muslims believe in all previous revelations given by God along with the Qur'an (Surah 2:4). Relative to discussions with Christians, Muslims are required to believe the Bible. Some Muslim apologists today contend that the Bible has been 'corrupted' or tainted through the infusion of faulty doctrines and the exclusion of valuable texts that support Islamic ideas by dubious scribes and malicious copyists. According to them there is no [...]

By |2020-03-14T04:16:02+02:00Sep 24th, 2018|Muhammad, New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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The Theological message of Paul as it relates to the primitive Christology of Philippians 2:5-11 by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

In this study of Paul’s Christology I will research the essential Christological idea that Paul was affirming from the earliest Christian community. The foundational text for my study will be from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in chapter 2 verse 5-11(Bowman and Komoszewski 2007:166-167). I will show that Paul is quoting an early doxological hymn affirming a high Christological view of the pre-existing incarnate Lord of all Jesus Christ that was worshiped as God, and [...]

By |2021-08-15T00:26:24+02:00Jan 20th, 2018|Christology, New Testament Reliability, Paul of Tarsus|0 Comments
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A Critique of “Jesus & the Injeel” by John Fontain by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff.

John Fontain has written a little booklet scrutinizing various themes making large claims concerning the Bible, Jesus and the Christian understanding of the Gospel. I do not endeavor in this evaluation to look at everything Mr. Fontain mentioned and as far possible tried to keep it short and precise, assessing his claims from a Biblical Christian and Scholarly understanding. About the cover: Just an interesting observation about the cover of this little booklet. The quality [...]

By |2020-03-21T11:17:10+02:00Jul 30th, 2016|Christology, Church History, Islam, Monotheism, Muhammad, Muslim Objections Answered, New Testament Reliability, Paul of Tarsus, Trinity|0 Comments
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The Bible: Today’s translations in light of the Early Manuscripts by Pastor Rudolph Boshoff

Recently an article was written by Laurie Goodstein that shed some light behind the "Mary Papyri" that was supposedly written early depicting Mary as the "wife" of Jesus? here is the article:  “A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of scripture: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife …'" [...]

By |2020-03-16T14:57:27+02:00Feb 12th, 2016|New Testament Reliability|0 Comments
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