Apologetics and Evidence

When one considers the issues of   post-modernism , such as the idea that everyone has their own truth, the question becomes, how do we answer someone who is adamantly standing on such ground? What will change their mind about the truth of the gospel if everyone has his or her own truth?   It seems that the first thing we should know is how to combat  post-modernism  with the  Three Fundamental Laws of Logic . The most significant of the three laws in combatting post-modernism is t he Law of non-contradiction . The idea is that any truth statement or claim is made, such as, “Jesus rose from the dead,” or “Jennifer is pregnant” or “it is morally correct to transition genders if one feels it is necessary,” then the fact of the matter is that not one of these truth claims can be both true and false at the same time and in the same sense.  To use the third fundamental law of logic, called  the Law of the excluded middle , which would be to say that all of ...

From the perspective of a Muslim, God is “one” in the strictest sense. Muslims famously teach and claim that “ There is one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet .” Anything in addition to Allah in this sense is to commit the greatest of all crimes in Islam, which is called  shirk . Shirk is understood this way by Muslims because of passages such as Sura 4:48, which reads, “Surely  Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him , and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he devises indeed a great sin.” [1]  In this passage then, readers can conclude that the definition of shirk is anything associated with Allah, this is what makes it the greatest sin of all.   On the contrary, in Christianity, God is three persons in one being. In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus tells His Disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all ...