Musings of a Snickerdoodle

Reclaiming Love by Ajith Fernando is an endeavor to look at the Biblical definition of love particularly as given in 1st Corinthians 13.   Fernando goes through the many declarations of what true love is, illustrating them with anecdotes and historical accounts, and reminding us that, as we have been made new creations, we are truly are able to do these things, giving various Scriptures that God's grace is sufficient for us in our sanctification towards Christlikeness.      Although the author has some good points, I did not like this book much.   To start with,   the statement is made that we must be careful of making too much of the differences between the different words for love in the New Testament(Philia, Agape).   And therefore, the definition for the word 'love' in the chapter that is being examined is not given, although definitions of other words are. The thought is given that that particular word for love (agapao) was possibly chosen ...

Did you know that Muslims believe in the virgin birth of Jesus?   Did you know that the Qur'an teaches that Christians believe that God is three gods forming a trinity made up of a father, son(Jesus) and surprisingly, Mary.   These and other interesting facts are brought out in this educational critique of the Qur'an by James White. The history of the Muhammad and the Qur'an are both given as far as possible from historical/traditional accounts. What the Qur'an teaches about Jesus is examined, as also are so-called 'proofs' that the Christian Bible foretold of Muhammad's coming and status as prophet.   White shows that their own document does not stand against some of their tests for the holiness of the Christian Bible.       It was very interesting to find that Muhammad apparently did not know exactly what the New and Old Testaments actually said when he wrote the Qur'an.   He seems to have gotten his information on the Torah and Gospels...