Additional Resources for Challenge of Islam (Part Two): Defending the Christian Faith

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SESSION ONE:

• "Your Bible Is Corrupt"
  For Christian responses to this challenge, click here.
• What the Qur'an Says About the Bible
  Check out this web link to read a written discussion of the Bible and the Qur'an.

SESSION TWO:

• A Muslim who converted to Christianity Through International Studies
  Read the story.
• Should Muslims Who Convert to Christianity Leave Their Muslim culture?
  A downloadable PDF file.

SESSION THREE:

• Proverbs 3:11-12
  11 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline
  or be weary of his reproof,
  12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
  as a father the son in whom he delights.
• Hebrews 12:5-11
  5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
  
  "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
  nor be weary when reproved by him.
  6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
  and chastises every son whom he receives."
  7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

SESSION FOUR:

• Genesis 2:7
  In Genesis 2:7 He is the breath of life breathed into the nostrils of Adam.
• Ezekiel 37:9
  In Ezekiel 37:9 He is the breath that comes from the four winds and breathes into the slain that they might live.
• John 20:22
  In John 20:22 He is the breath the resurrected Jesus breathed onto His disciples.
• 2 Timothy 3:16
  In 2 Timothy 3:16 God breathes out all Scripture, inspiring (breathing into) the prophets and apostles who wrote them.
• Reasons Muslims Convert to Christianity
  These come from a survey of 750 converts from various countries.
• Problems Facing Muslim Converts to Christianity
  Read about the difficulties faced by Muslim converts to Christianity in America.
• Matthew 3:16-17
  16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him,[a] and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son,[b] with whom I am well pleased."
  
• Hebrews 9:14
  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
• Acts 10:40
  but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear,
• 1 Peter 3:18-19
  18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
• John 1:1-3; 17:5
  1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
  
  17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

SESSION FIVE:

• Life of Muhammad
  Timeline of Muhammad's life
• Colossians 2:15
  15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

SESSION SIX:

• Shari'a in the U.S.?
  Shari'a law in the United States
• Islamic Persecution of Christians: Armenia
  The Armenian genocide is a controversial and confrontational issue involving Christian Armenians who were subjugated and persecuted by Turkey's Ottoman Empire during and after World War I.
• Islamic Persecution of Christians: Armenia (rebuttal)
  An attempt to disprove the Armenian genocide.
• Islamic Persecution of Christians: Sudan
  Sudanese Christians under attack
• Islamic Persecution of Christians: Ethiopia
  Ethiopian persecution
• Islamic Persecution of Christians: Saudi Arabia
  Persecution in Saudi Arabia
• Islamic Persecution of Christians: Bangladesh
  Conditions in Bangladesh
• What Is the Difference between Shia and Sunni Muslims?
  Learn about the two largest divisions in Islam.
• Where Do Shiites and Sunni Muslims Live?
  The geographic distribution of Shiites and Sunnis
• How Do I Share My Faith with My Muslim Neighbor?
  Witnessing to a westernized Muslim
• Acts 7:51-60
  51 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."
  
  54 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. 55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. 58 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." 60 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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