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- Debate Card: Is the Trinity Three Gods?
The historic Christian claim is that there is one divine being and three personally distinct persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is not the claim that three gods form a committee, or that God, Mary, and Jesus… - Debate Card: Islamic Sources Treat Women Unequally
This card argues that Islam's canonical sources assign women unequal legal and marital status on the basis of sex. The case does not depend on claiming that women lack spiritual worth, that every rule treats every… - Debate Card: Was Jesus Crucified?
This card compares explanations of Jesus' fate rather than assuming every Muslim holds the substitution theory. The Christian case begins with early, multiple streams of testimony that Jesus was publicly executed… - Debate Card: Was the Bible Corrupted?
This card answers a blanket claim that the biblical text was changed beyond reliability. It does not claim that biblical manuscripts have no variants; it asks whether the variants and surviving manuscript history… - Debate Cards: How to Use Them
These cards turn selected arguments from Answering Islam into short, source-linked conversation maps. They are designed to help a Christian define the issue, state one modest claim, invite a response, and answer the… - Debate Method: Claim, Text, Inference, Reply
The two supplied debates contain valuable passages and distinctions, but they also contain interruptions, personal attacks, uncited assertions, and shifts between different claims. This dossier turns them into a… - Deborah
Prophet and judge who leads Israel with Barak. - Decian persecution and the question of the lapsed
Imperial pressure to sacrifice brought persecution across the empire and forced churches to discern how Christians who had denied the faith might return through repentance. - Delilah
Woman who betrays Samson's secret. - Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy presents Moses' addresses as Israel stands east of the Jordan. Retelling, exhortation, law, blessing, and warning turn the memory of deliverance into a demand for covenant loyalty. - Deuteronomy 32:43 — the song’s textual form
The ESV prints a summons for the heavens to rejoice with the Lord and for ‘all gods’ to bow down to him. This is praise of the Lord, not a petition to a departed person. Ancient witnesses do not preserve this verse… - Didache and early Christian practice
The Didache preserves teaching on the Two Ways, baptism, fasting, prayer, Eucharistic thanksgiving, and communal leadership. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed at Flossenbürg
The Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is killed at Flossenbürg near the end of the Second World War. - Dinah
Daughter of Jacob and Leah in a difficult family narrative. - Dionysius describes exile under Valerian
Dionysius recounts interrogation and removal from Alexandria during Valerian's persecution. His letter describes continued gatherings and contact with people around the places of exile. - Dionysius links an Easter table with years from Christ's incarnation
Dionysius continues an Alexandrian Easter cycle and replaces the Diocletian era in his new table with years counted from Christ's incarnation. Calendar calculation helps explain the later spread of Christian year… - Distinct biblical visions of life and judgment
Revelation 22 presents water of life from God's throne. Daniel 7 presents a fiery stream in a judgment vision. Neither passage explicitly identifies its stream with the other. Reading both images here supplies a… - Divine Essence and Energies
In the Orthodox theology associated with Gregory Palamas, God's essence remains beyond created comprehension, while God truly communicates his uncreated life through his energies. This distinction concerns how… - Divine Essence, Attributes, and Simplicity
Islamic theology must explain how the one divine essence relates to knowledge, will, power, life, hearing, sight, and speech. Mu'tazili accounts protect unity by identifying attributes with the essence or treating… - Divine Identity: why Christians identify Jesus as God
A curated map of 36 substantial studies, not an exhaustive list of every verse or a claim that every connection is equally clear. It presents the shared Nicene Christian case, serious competing readings, and the… - Divine Identity: why Christians identify the Holy Spirit as God
A curated map of 20 substantial studies about the Holy Spirit’s divine identity and personal agency. It presents the shared Nicene Christian argument, substantial competing readings, and the Father–Son–Spirit… - Docetism
Classical Protestant creeds confess the historical bodily Incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection as central gospel claims. - Does Allah Have a Body?
The Qur'an and canonical hadith do not predicate the technical kalam term jism, or body, of God. A concrete attribute word does not by itself entail a material, extended, divisible, or composite body. Classical… - Does invocation cross a biblical prohibition?
Deuteronomy prohibits consulting the dead; Isaiah asks why the living consult the dead rather than God. Why would addressing a departed saint escape these prohibitions merely because the request is devotional? - Does resemblance establish an origin?
Vigilantius, as Jerome reports him, likens martyr honors and lamps to heathen ceremony. Might Christian saint devotion have adopted practices whose outward form obscures worship of God? - Donatism
Protestant churches differ on ministry and sacramental theology, but the controversy remains a warning against making the gospel's validity rest on a minister's moral perfection. - Drought and food shortage strike Judea and Syria
Josephus describes drought, crop failure, exhausted reserves, and disease during a severe regional food crisis under Herod. - Earlier Scripture as Guidance and Confirmation
The Christian case emphasizes that Qur'an 5:46 calls the Gospel guidance and light, 5:47 directs the People of the Gospel to judge by what God revealed in it, 5:68 tells the People of the Book to uphold Torah and… - Early Anabaptist movement
Swiss Brethren begin baptizing professing believers and form communities apart from established churches. Anabaptists face persecution from both Catholic and magisterial Protestant authorities. - Early Baptist congregations
English Separatist exiles in Amsterdam, led by John Smyth, adopt believers' baptism around 1609. Thomas Helwys returns to London about 1612 with part of the group and argues that rulers may not coerce conscience.… - Early Paschal witnesses: chronology, custom, and peace
A fragment attributed to Claudius Apollinaris engages a disagreement about the Passion date. Eusebius preserves a different but related dispute about when Christians should end the Paschal fast and celebrate.… - Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes tests achievement, wealth, labor, pleasure, and wisdom against mortality and the limits of human control. Qoheleth's searching voice and the closing epilogue should both be heard without turning every… - Ecclesiastes 9: what the dead no longer do
Ecclesiastes says the dead know nothing and no longer share in what happens under the sun, then urges the living to act while they can. A challenge to departed intercession must consider this language. Its… - Edict of Milan and legal toleration
Imperial agreement grants Christians and others freedom to practice their religions and changes the Church's public setting. - Edinburgh
Edinburgh provides a doorway into the Scottish Reformation, the Scots Confession adopted by Parliament in 1560, and the subsequent development of Presbyterian church order. John Knox's work connects Scotland with… - Edinburgh World Missionary Conference
Protestant missionary leaders meet in Edinburgh, an important moment in global mission cooperation and later ecumenical efforts. - Egeria records Jerusalem's worship through Holy Week
A pilgrim describes services, processions, readings, and the participation of clergy and people at Jerusalem. Her account follows the movement between places associated with the Passion and resurrection. - Ehud
Judge who delivers Israel from Moabite rule. - Elah of Israel
Northern king overthrown by Zimri. - Elders appointed in local churches
Acts reports Paul and Barnabas appointing elders in churches, with prayer and fasting. The text establishes ordered local ministry without naming a one-bishop-per-city system at this point.