New Podcast Let Us Reason - A Christian/Muslim Dialogue

In this episode Al Fadi and Dr Jay discuss the doctrine of the trinity in the Bible and the Tawheed in the Quran. They say that neither term appear in the Bible or the Quran but understood to explain a theological term. Dr Jay mentions that Dr Paul Blakham went through the Bible identifying the trinity in each book. Two examples are given Genesis1:1 in the beginning God(Elohim; a plural word for God) , yet Deuteronomy 6:4 emphasizes that God is one. In the new testament in Matthew 28:19-20 ....In the name(singular) of the father, and of the Son and of the Holy spirit . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Al Fadi and Dr jay continue with explaining the first reason of why people convert to Islam and that is the social laws. They discuss statistics from the Kidron Atlas and how Muslim majority countries fall behind of major social issues like literacy, the quality of life, and mortality rate as some examples. Most converts to Islam never been to a Muslim majority country. They also discuss the second reason for converting to Islam and that is not understanding the trinity of God. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay list twelve reasons of why people convert to Islam in the West, mainly the study was done on the Eastern cost of North America. The majority are from African American background that converted to Islam in prison. Reason # 1 They say is the social laws. They claim that Islam has a comprehensive guide to life; it tells you how to walk and talk. Al Fadi and Dr Jay challenge that reason by giving some examples; the penalty for stealing in Islam is cutting off the hand . Women headcover is to protect women from Muslim men and so forth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Al Fadi and Dr Jay discuss the last four claims: #13 The Constitution of Al Madina; a document between three major groups supposedly created by Muhammad. #14. The Doctrina La Cobi; a Greek Christian tract from Carthage, which refers to a prophet with a sword. #15. Is Muhammad in the Quran? #16. Is Muhammad's name on the Dome of the Rock? Listen as Al Fadi and Dr Jay debunk these claims in details. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Al Fadi and Dr Jay recap the first eleven claims; in conclusion : every reference to Mohammad in these claims place him in the wrong place and probably refer to other Muhammads = " the praised ones ". Then they discuss claim #12 The Ashtiname Letter, which was supposed to be written by Mohammad or Ali to the monks of St Catherine's Monastery, promising protection and other privileges. This turned out to be a fraud written by the monks of the monastery to protect themselves from the Marauding Muslims all around them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay discuss two more claims; Claim # 10 is John Nikiou, An Egyptian Coptic Bishop, who mentions Muhammad and Islam. The problem of this claim is that the earliest manuscript of this quote is from the 1700 AD and not the 7th century. Claim #11 John of Damascus, 730 AD, He mentions Muhammad as a false prophet, who taught the heresy of the Ishmaelites, who had four revelation three of them are called Suras in today's Quran. This is hardly a compliment to Islam or Muhammad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Al Fadi and Dr jay debunk five more claims: #5 John of Antioch in 639 AD, # 6 Ishoyahb III in 647 AD , # 7 The Armenian Bishop Sebeos in 660 -670 AD, # 8 Monothelite Christian in 662 AD, #9 John Bar Penkaye, a Nestorian Christian in 690 Ad. in some of these claims it is only an argument between a trinitarian and anti trinitarian and in others there is no mention of the Quran, Muslim or Islam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay refute the first four claims : 1. Thomas the Presbyter (634AD), who refers to a battle between the Romans and a "Tayaye d-Mhmt" which happened east of Gaza in 634 AD. 2. A flyleaf (634 AD), this refers to a battle of Yarmuk between the Syrians and the Arab of Mhmud. 3. The Sophronius and Jerusalem (637 AD). A Christian account of the conquest of Jerusalem in 637 AD by the Caliph Umar. 4. The Pact of Umar(637 AD). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Standard Islamic Narrative, Muslims claim that Muhammad lived in the seventh century in western Arabia (Mecca, Medina ) between 570-632 AD. In this new series Al Fadi and Dr Jay are going to use outside sources, none Islamic, to debunk any external evidence that is used to claim that the Mohammad of Islam did exist in the seventh century. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Brother Mel continue their talk about the connection between Islam and the Zoroastrian religion of Persia. Today they talk about the myth of the Buraq; which Muslims believe it is a flying horse, which took Mohammad to Jerusalem to Al Aqsa mosque and then to heaven. The origin of the name is Persian which means : A riding animal, a rider or a horse. In Zoroastrianism a demon god rides on a horse. This shows the willingness of Islam to copy other religions. They also touch on the origin of the names Aisha and Fatima. They think that they are Jewish names of two wives of Ishmael according to the Jewish Tergum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi, Dr Jay, and Brother Mel are starting a new series called Exposing the Myth. In this episode they are talking about how Islam borrowed from the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. 1.The name of the ZamZam well is zoroastrian in origin. The name Zam is a pagan god which refers to mother nature. 2. The Black stone in al Kaaba is connected to another demon called Afraditi(Venus/ Lucifer). 3. The Jamarat represent Satan. 4. The Sunna/ hadith was written in persian lands. 5. The times of prayer, the washing before prayer, the kibla, and the word Jin were borrowed from Zoroastrianism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Jay and Al Fadi continue with three more historical problems with the Quran: 1. The Al Aqsa mosque( Sura 17: 1), which Muslims believe that Mohammad ascended into heaven from, was built in 710 AD, and Mohammad died in 632 AD. 2. The chain mail that is mentioned in Sura 24: 10-11 that King David wore around 1000BC ,was not invented until 200 BC. 3. The reference to the crucifixion in Sura 7: 121-124 during the time of Moses and Pharaoh in 1400 BC and Joseph 1800BC (Sura 12 :41). The crucifixion was invented 1300 years later. Yet the Quran denies the crucifixion of Jesus in Sura 4 : 157 ; this is a theological and a historical problem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Jay and Al Fadi discuss the refutations to Dan Brubaker book: Corrections in Early Quranic Manuscripts. one of the refutations is by Hythem Sidky who writes a book responding to Dan's book. Dr Jay and Al Fadi also talk about the historical problems of the Quran, they give an example from Sura 20 : 85-87,95-97, where it talks about a Samaritan who lived in the time of Moses and helped the Israelites build the golden calf. The problem with that story is the time period ; Moses lived in 1400 BC and the Samaritan did not exist until 722BC. In conclusion; having even one mistake in the Quran proves that is not divinely preserved. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Al Fadi and Dr Jay discuss sixteen example of changes made to a number of Quranic manuscripts to fit the 1924 Hafs edition of the Quran. Al and Jay took those examples from Dr Daniel Brubaker book" Creating the Quran" . This book has been so damaging to the standard Islamic narrative that claims that the Quran has been perfectly preserved. Listen to this episode to learn the details of these damaging changes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay Smith continue their discussion about the interview that Muhammad Hijab had with Dr Yasi Qadi about the Quran preservation. Al and Dr Jay mention that most Muslims especially in the East do not cross the line of questioning the Quran. Dr Yasir Qadi had a crisis of faith "knowledge" when he went to Yale university. The interview caused a lot of Muslims to doubt and leave Islam. They also talked about Dr Brubaker's work on the early Quranic manuscript in his book" Corrections in Early Quranic Manuscripts" . In his work Dr Brubaker researched and found over 800 - 4,000 differences between the Hafs Quran of today and the early manuscripts. These corrections was made to fit the Hafs Quran of today. This research had a very damaging result to the belief that the Quran is perfectly preserved.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay Smith listen to a clip of a major interview of Dr Yasir Qadi by Mohammad Hijab on the topic of the preservation of the Quran. In this interview Dr Yasi Qadi admits it is a hard subject to discuss and that it should not be a public discussion. He also says that it is enough to believe it and not question it. The original interview was done on 6/8/2020. This interview was very damaging to the Standard Islamic Narrative, and in it Dr Yasir Qadi admits that the S.I.N. has holes in it and it does not answer all the questions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Continuing last week's discussion, Al Fadi and Dr Jay Smith say that Ibn Mujaahed chose the seven Kira'at in the tenth century. The criteria for choosing them was popularity. Hafs differ from the other Kira'at by 93 thousand dots and vowels. Therefore the preservation claim does not stand the test. They give several examples between the Hafs and Warsh: 1. Sura 2:184 ; Al miskeen and Al masaakeen; the first is singular noun and the second is the plural form of the noun. 2. Sura 3:146; the words kaatala (fought) and kutila (killed). These differences have huge theological and practice implications. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Jay and Al Fadi discuss the multiple different Arabic Qurans that a Turkish sister called Hattun found in different Arabic countries starting in 2016. Dr Jay and Hattun took the Qurans to speakers corner in England where they showed them to Muslims who were shocked to hear and see that, because they have been told by their leaders that the Quran has been perfectly preserved to the letter and the dot. The Muslim response was that these are different readings for different dialects. There is five thousand differences between the two major versions which are called the Hafs and the Warsh alone. These differences do not only change the doctrine and the practice, but also the theology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay continue there discussion from Shoemaker's book Creating the Quran. They name some scholars including Montgomery, Patricia Corona and others who point out that Mecca was insignificant and Medina (Yathrib was a small date oasis with few hundred people living there, and there is no mention of Jews living there as the S.I.N. mentions. They also say that most scholars conclude that the Quran and Islam is not from central Hijaz but from farther north.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay Smith continue there review of Shoemaker book; creating the Quran. Today they focus on where was the origin of the Quran. They say that there was some rock inscription in Northern Arabian not in the Hijaz. Some of the reasons why the inscription doesn't fit the Hijazi dialect of central Arabia are three distinctive features: 1. The distinctive form of the relative pronoun. 2. The distinctive form of the distal demonstrative . 3. the use of the verbal constructive of ya aleph. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Muslims claim that Mecca is in Saudi Arabia, that Mohammad was born there, and that he also received his revelation of the Quran there. If that is true where is Mecca? Steven Shoemaker in his book Creating the Quran on page114 mentions that there is no mention of a mecca in any of the great civilizations of the time . Not only that,but another scholar; Patricia Corona said that there were no trade roues going through Mecca on land nor by the coast of the Red Sea bordering Mecca. Many scholars say that Islam started way north of Mecca and that most Muslim scholars were Persians. So Shoemaker concludes that Mecca was further north. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This manuscript was found in Damascus and was moved to Germany. It looks a lot like the upper layer of the Sana manuscript. There are three reasons why this manuscript is 8th century and not 7th century: 1. The dots , the circles ,and the verse markings suggests that the text is a later text. 2. . The page layout and illuminations parallels the 8th century manuscripts. 3. The ornamentations suggests Abd Al Malik and Al Hajjag new distinctive Islamic Arabic manuscripts. The question is if this text came from Mecca and Medina, what was happening there? Scholars agree that in the 7th century those two cities where very isolated and insignificant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Jay and Al Fadi continue the comparison between the upper and the lower layers of the Sana manuscripts of the Quran with the 1924 Hafs edition of the Quran. They point out differences that changes the meaning of the text; for example Sura 9: 9 in the lower layer of the manuscripts states" the way of Allah while the Hafs Quran of 1924 says 'His way". Another difference in the upper layer as an example is Sura 7: 76 "you directed vs he directed" They point out that most of the differences have to do with the diacritical marking which did not exist until the 8th century. Even with the upper layer of the manuscripts there was no standardized Quran yet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Jay Smith discusses the book that Dr Asma Hilali wrote on the Sana Palimpsest manuscripts. He talks about the conclusions that she came up with by comparing it to todays Hafs Quran; she says that there are seventy variants in sixty three verses. She also believes that it is a student text. Jay says that that shuts down the idea of the preservation of the Quran which both Muslim and the Quran claim ( ie Sura 85: 21,22). Then Jay and Al discuss some of the differences as examples. Then they ask the question : Is the Quran perfectly preserved? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Sana manuscripts is a palimpsest manuscripts ; which means that there is a lower and upper layers of writing . Scholars say that the two writings are late seventh and early eighth century respectively. They think that it is two versions of the Quran; the first is a pre- standard Quran which was erased and rewritten as the canonical version. On comparing the two writing , it was found that there are seventy variants between the two. Dr Jay says that the lower text was erased because it needed to be updated. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Sana'a manuscript was discovered in Yemen in 1975, it is very old with no dots and vowels. It is a palimpsest (It has two layers of writings). It had late 7th to 8th century scripts. It was carbon tested at the university of Arizona in 2007, and was dated to mid 7th century. The same segment was taken to four Europeans labs and they did not agree with the Arizona dating. Shoemaker concludes that there is a problem with the carbon dating because the process dates the skin of the animal not the time the writing was writtenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue their discussion of Isaiah 53.  In this session they discuss how Jesus and His disciples talked about the fulfillment of Isaiah 53; 1. In Luke 24 after Jesus's resurrection ; he is explaining to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus  how the Christ will suffer, die and come back to life.  2. All four accounts of the gospel mention Isaiah 40 a voice crying out in the wilderness . 3. Jesus told his disciples that he will go to Jerusalem to die.  4. Another example was in Acts 8 where Philip is explaining the suffering Messiah to the Ethiopian who was reading Isaiah 53.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue in Isaiah 53 about the reason for the death of the righteous servant.  It is atone for the guilt of the people (53:5,11).  This is the gospel message in advance.  The gospel is the good news; in Isaiah 40:9, 52:7.  Is. 53:1 the gospel is proclaimed. The gospel of Mark starts as it is written in Isaiah.  Zachariah 6:12 talks about the branch/ The Nazarene/ the Messiah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue discussing Isaiah 52 and 53, They notice that this servant is an individual, a human, a man, not a nation.  The pronoun "He" is being used many times.  In Isaiah 52:13, This servant will be highly exalted.  In Isaiah 2, the Lord alone will be exalted; This shows the divine identity of this figure.  Isaiah 52: says that this upright man will suffer and die, buried , resurrected and exalted (Is. 52:13,14).  He will be stricken, smitten , and afflicted (Is. 53:4) . He will be chastened, scourged , and crushed (Is. 53: 5). This figure will die for the sins of his people, and he will succeed. This person is the Lord Jesus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr David continue to disprove the myth of the perfect preservation of the Quran.  In this episode they go to a book called Fadaelle Al Quran;  in Sura 33 there is only 73 verses left of 200 original verses; the reason is that a sheep ate it according to Ayesha who had the only copy of the sura.  According to Muslims the Quran was preserved by memory. in Sura 87: 6,7 Allah allows Mohammad to forget some suras that He wills.  In Hadith Al Bukhari 50:38,39 Mohammad claims that Allah caused him to forget some verses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mohammad married Ayesha at age 6 and consummated the marriage at age 9.  The Quran allows marriage of  prepubescent child (Sura 65:4).  And since Muslims believe that Muhammad was an example for mankind; therefore Islam allows child marriage.  In order to justify that; the Muslim Da'wa team lie about girls being married as a child in the Bible; Mary is one example. They find unreliable Catholic apocryphal sources. Al and David discuss this matter in more details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lie of the perfect preservation of the Quran is no longer believable. Dr wood and Al Fadi discuss the discovery of multiple copies of the Quran that don't agree with each other.  They also discuss the debate between Muslim scholars and debaters about how to answer  the false claim of the preservation of the QuranSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr Jay Smith discuss the incarnation of Jesus; the word became flesh. Muslims deny that God can come to earth even though the story of the burning bush is in Chapter 20:10-14 of the Quran . The only way to have a holy ground is if God is there. They also talk about the two types of revelations; the general revelation/ creation, and special revelation. Christians agree on the general revelation .  Muslims believe that the Quran is a special revelation; is eternal, sent down, complete, and unchanged .The Quran is not complete and it changed according to all the research that was done.  Christians believe that Jesus is the Word of God, eternal, came down , never changed, and the only complete revelation of God.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sin in Islam is a set of dos and don'ts, Muslims believe there is two angels that are assigned to every person at birth to record their good and bad deeds, and that good deeds cancel out bad deeds. The Bible says that sin is much deeper that that, it took one sin to get Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden. They could no longer talk to God in person.  All creation was affected by that sin. We are all out of the Garden because God is holy.  God is the only one who can fix sin's problem. God made a covenant with Abraham were He alone can fulfill  in Genesis 15 .  Only God can atone for our sin through Jesus's ( the only sinless person) sacrifice which was promised in Genesis 3:15 that the seed of the woman ( Jesus) will crush the head of the serpent (Satan). To be continued in the next episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Dr jay Smith  discuss more doctrinal differences between Christianity and Islam and today they start with the trinity; they point out how the Christian God is relational both in the God head and with His creation.  They point out that we are made in God's image to be relational too.  Second they show the difference between Christians who are children of God versus Muslims who are slaves of Allah. Children can call God Daddy, and communicate with God without fear; Muslims are afraid of their God and must submit to him as master. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a start of a new series called The Hermeneutical Key; it is the key to interpret scripture.  Today's topic is The Garden of Eden.  In the Bible (Genesis 3:8,9 ) we read the story of the fall of Adam and Eve ; God was walking and talking with them; He had a relationship with them.  Also in the Bible the Garden of Eden was on earth.  In the Quran, Chapter (2: 30-39,7: 19-25); the garden of Eden is in heaven, God is not in the garden.  This means we are not talking about the same thing; the God of the Bible is omnipotent,; he entered time and space and took on a human form.  The God of the Bible is not the Allah of the Quran.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Michael Jones discuss the effects of polygamy in Islam which allows for polygamy. Muslims claim that the Bible has polygamy in it. The truth is that  the old testament records the sins of some characters in the Bible who practiced polygamy ,but is not so from the beginning in Genesis 2:24 that a man leaves his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh, as when God brought Eve to Adam and Jesus later confirmed it in Matthew 19: 1-9 .  They also discuss the scientific results of mental health issues that both women and children suffer in a polygamist marriages.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Al Fadi and Michael Jones talk about the mental and the social harm of child marriage.  Islam promotes child marriage as we saw in a previous episode.  Studies shows the mental harm that it causes from depression, anxiety, phobia, and suicidal thoughts just to name a few.  The social harm are death during child birth, cervical cancer, STDs, and being a victim of domestic violence.  They conclude that child marriage is to be outlawed if Muslims really care about their daughters.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Al Fadi and Michael Jones talk about the mental and the social harm of child marriage.  Islam promotes child marriage as we saw in a previous episode.  Studies shows the mental harm that it causes from depression, anxiety, phobia, and suicidal thoughts just to name a few.  The social harm are death during child birth, cervical cancer, STDs, and being a victim of domestic violence.  They conclude that child marriage is to be outlawed if Muslims really care about their daughters.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi asks the question above. He gives a lot of Bible verses to show that if we believe in Jesus we have eternal life; 1John 5: 12-13 , John 5: 24, Romans 8:16, just to mention a few. And nothing can separate us from God's love or snatch us out of his hands John 10:29, Romans 8:38,39.  Our salvation is sure as Christian and the scripture proves it ; not so in the Quran or by Mohammad Sura 46:8-9, Sura 10:94.  Not even the Hadith ; Sahih Bukhari vol. 5, book 58, #266 and vol 4, book 51, # 16;  Mohammad was not sure of his salvation or the salvation of his family or any Muslim.  Al Fadi asks the question ; why would you follow someone who doesn't have an assurance of salvation? and says that Jesus is the way, and the life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Al Fadi answers the question on his Facebook page; Alfadi.cira,  " If Mohammad is a prophet like Moses why did he violate the Sabbath".  Mohammad acknowledged in Sura 4:154 that the Sabbath was not to be violated .  In Hadith Al Bukhari B2,V13:1,21, Mohammad did not honor the Sabbath, but introduced his own holy day; Friday, thus dishonoring the Sabbath .  Therefore he is not a prophet like Moses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue in the series about Christ in the Psalms.  In this episode they compare two sets of Psalms that compares to the first two Psalms.  Psalm 18 and 19 ; Psalm 18 is a Messianic Psalm that talks about the suffering of the Messiah, while Psalm19 is a Psalm about the Torah/law of the Lord.  Another pair of Psalms that are like that are Psalm 118 and 119.  Psalm 118 is Messianic  while Psalm 119 is about the law or the Torah of the Lord.  They encourage you to read the Psalms looking for the Messiah.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue their discussion about Christ in the book of Psalms.  They show how Psalm 1 and 2 are the the preface / introduction to the book.  In Psalm 1 the blessed man(Christ) is singular vs. the wicked (sinners) is plural .  The law of the Lord is the Torah of the Lord, and His delight is in the Torah.  The phrase like a tree is also repeated in Psalm 52; like a green olive tree; an imagery of Eden.  In Psalm 92 : 12 talks about the righteous one.  Psalm 2 plays off of Psalm one that the wicked will perish because they did not reverence the son; the righteous one.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al and Anthony Rogers start a new series talking about how David used the Psalms to reveal Christ.  The book of Psalms is not a haphazard book , but an organized book that talks about Christ the Messiah.  The book is divided into five books to resemble the five book of Moses. There is a hundred names in the book of Psalms about Jesus ; the blessed man, the afflicted, and the tree of life just to name a few. This should give us a new perspective when we read the Psalms; they are all about Jesus not just some.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mel and Al continue to discuss the origin of the name Mehmet and today they discuss what the Sufis think and believe. They say that Mehmet was the source of light and Adam was created by him. This name was used to refer to God/ Jesus, and later evolved to refer to an Arabian prophet.  Mehmet was originally a title and it was used for centuries before it was changed to Mohammad.  In other words Mehmet was a reference to God; the highly praised one, and was applied to Jesus on coins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Brother Mel continue to use more Quranic verses to show that the Quran refers to Jesus when he mentions the name Mohammad, Sura 33:40, Sura 3:144. They also discuss the term Angel of the Lord in Genesis 16: 8-10 , 22:11-12 who Christians believe is the the Lord Jesus is the only one that can claim the promises in those verses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al and Mel continue their discussion about the origin of the name Mohammad/ Mehmet.  Today they start by talking about the use of the cross on an inscription by an Arab ruler named Mu'aweiah; he was called the commander of the believers, and from the sound of it he was a Christian who was crowned king in Jerusalem and ruled from Damascus. Next they talk about the references in the Quran to a person called Mehmet and Ahmed.  They discuss Suras 47:2, 45:29 and 19:30-31. They point to how the name fits in being used in reference to Jesus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mel says that in  the ancient Ugaritic language about three thousand years ago the name Muhammad/ Mehmet meant desirable or precious.  Also in Sematic it meant  Barak; blessed and was meant for the Messiah.  Mel also talks about having the Name on coins with crosses on them; for example a 6th century coin in Yemen in 523 A.D. with the name Mehmet in Sabaic script. The term was used for Jesus and then was taken by the Muslims to mean an Arabian prophet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and brother Mel. start a new series on the origin of the name Mohammad.  1. Where is it in the Bible. 2. The earliest reference to Mehmet. 3.The use of the name on coins. 4. The seventh century chronicles. 5. Who is Mehmet in the Quran. The origin of the name Mehmet in Hebrew means" the desired one" (ps. 68:16, Pro. 12:12).  In Song of Salomon(16:5), it is referring to the Messiah; all together lovely.  Both Jews and Christian say that the name refers to the Messiah. Since the Messiah is Jewish it can not refer to Mohammad the Arabian prophet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue their discussion of Isaiah 53.  In this session they discuss how Jesus and His disciples talked about the fulfillment of Isaiah 53; 1. In Luke 24 after Jesus's resurrection ; he is explaining to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus  how the Christ will suffer, die and come back to life.  2. All four accounts of the gospel mention Isaiah 40 a voice crying out in the wilderness . 3. Jesus told his disciples that he will go to Jerusalem to die.  4. Another example was in Acts 8 where Philip is explaining the suffering Messiah to the Ethiopian who was reading Isaiah 53.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al Fadi and Anthony Rogers continue in Isaiah 53 about the reason for the death of the righteous servant.  It is atone for the guilt of the people (53:5,11).  This is the gospel message in advance.  The gospel is the good news; in Isaiah 40:9, 52:7.  Is. 53:1 the gospel is proclaimed. The gospel of Mark starts as it is written in Isaiah.  Zachariah 6:12 talks about the branch/ The Nazarene/ the Messiah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.