My First Rebuttal Period Against Jalal Abualrub

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I simply call my opponent to be much prouder of that. I'd like to turn your attention to a horrific, out of context citation where a verse was cut in half so that it's actual teaching was robbed from you.

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1 Corinthians 8 verse 6. But to us there is but one God. That's all you got.

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I saw this happen with the babes a few weeks ago. I do not understand this. I would never do this to the

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Quran. Because all someone has to do is go, could you read the rest of the verse please? Because 1 Corinthians 8 verse 6 says, but to us there is but one

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God. From whom are all things, and we unto him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

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This is Paul's restatement of the great schmaw of the Old Testament. Filling it in in Christian revelation with Jesus Christ being the creator of all things.

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How can you quote only part of a verse when the rest of it teaches the deity of Christ? I cannot begin to comprehend this.

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We're told that every single word of what I said has been disputed. By whom? If I were to get up here and start quoting

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Shiites and Druze and every other off center group of Muslims and say, ah, everything he says is disputed.

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Could we ever accomplish anything? If you're going to say it's been disputed, please name by whom so we can examine the sources and have a scholarly debate.

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We're asked if any Old Testament prophets speak as a Christian speaks. Of course not. What did I say in my opening statement?

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The revelation of the doctrine of the Trinity and the deity of Christ takes place when? In the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

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When did that happen? After all the Old Testament prophets. It takes place between the Old Testament and the

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New Testament. That's why the New Testament writers then take all those words about God in the Old Testament and apply them to Jesus in the

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New. We're told Jesus did not speak Greek. Really? Almost everybody in that land did. You had to because that's what the

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Roman soldiers spoke and you better know what they were telling you to do. He said he cited major encyclopedias.

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Folks, this is a debate that's supposed to be a scholarly debate. I'm a teacher. I do not allow my students to quote the

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Encyclopedia Britannica in a scholarly paper. You go to true scholarship.

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When I study Islam, I have spent I don't know how much money to obtain their best materials.

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Why are we quoting Internet encyclopedias this evening? We're told in Numbers 23 19 says

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God is not a man. Of course not. It is not our claim that God has eternally been a man. It is our claim that the eternal

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God who created all things entered into his own creation. I want to ask a question of my opponent this evening.

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Will you stand before us and say it is beyond the power of a law to enter into that which he created?

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Will you say that? Yes or no? Are you going to? Then we were scolded in the last debate for anyone daring to talk about the

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Quran who doesn't know Arabic. But everything I brought up in regards to the text of the

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New Testament was dismissed by saying well I don't read Greek. Take it up with the people and I'll cite it. Can you imagine if we were having a debate on the

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Quran? And I got up here and I made a bunch of basic errors in regards to the nature of the

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Quran. I miscited it. I mistranslated it. I went against all the major Islamic translations of the

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Quran and I said hey I found that in your guys' books. Don't talk to me. I don't read Arabic. How scholarly would that be?

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I don't understand that. I can open up the Quran here sir. And I'm taking the time to be able to realize that this tells me.

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He neither begets nor is he begotten. Correct? Yes. I'm taking time to go this is what it says.

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And I can go here and I can go to Hebrew and I can see Yalad is the same root. And that comes out in Isaiah 9 6 which says to us a son is given a child is born.

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A Yalad. That was written 1300 years before this. Why do I believe this comes 1300 years later?

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We were told for example over and over again that the word that us is used is

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Satan. 2 Corinthians 4 .4. Actually a good friend of mine Don Hartley has written an excellent thesis where he disputes that actually about Satan.

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But even if it was that is irrelevant. Words only have meaning in a given context. And the context of John 1 has nothing to do with Satan.

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Every time you hear it brought up they ask him to use it that way. It is a red herring. We were told that looking at monogamy meaning unique is a trick.

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No that's called translating the Greek language accurately in accordance with the best scholarship that is available today.

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We were told that these words were written by people who never knew Jesus. Prove it. I can simply say to you everything in the

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Quran has nothing to do with monogamy. Prove it. You can't just make overarching statements like this and not back it up with serious argumentation.

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He said that stuff I got about Constantine I got from their books. He didn't get it from mine. And he didn't get it from any serious historical work because it is just false.

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If you are going to say Constantine forced the trade of young Christianity then go back and prove it. I can prove he didn't.