Yes.  Jonah, the reluctant prophet with 4 short chapters, has ties to both Christianity and Islam.

This isn't going at all like I expected when I started this project.  I went into it with the feeling that Muslims and Christians couldn't possibly be talking about the same God.  And I ...

Abrogation.  This is how a religion can talk about peace, incite violence, and claim no contradiction in what it teaches.

Some in Islam say there is no such thing as abrogation.  We'll shortly see that the Qur'an itself puts the lie to this statement.

Others say abrogation is the key ...

Is this really a goal of some scientists - to prove that people are no better than cockroaches?

Filthy, smelly, repulsive. There are a lot of ways to describe cockroaches, but “full of personality” usually isn’t one of them. Yet a team of scientists has not only found evidence that ...

The "Jonah question" is turning out to be tougher than expected.

There's a difference between God hating what people do -
and hating the people themselves.

Let's see if that could help with the "Jonah question".

This is part of a continuing series looking at God in the ...

Right now -
maybe the motive really is all about making more money.

But later?

 It's 16 months since I wrote that line.  
It's now later.

Let's see what's happening now.

The original article was from September 28, 2013.  As usual, updates will be in rust colored ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis says the most effective antidote to violence among Christians and Muslims is learning about each other and then accepting differences.

Francis also told participants Saturday of a meeting promoted by the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamist Studies that only by carefully listening can interreligious ...

In the previous article, we saw that Muhammad was told not to be like Jonah.

This is a complex, but critical issue.  With God's command to Jonah - it was an outreach from the Hebrew people to the Ninevites (which is in modern day Iraq).  It was unheard of.  Jonah at ...

Do not be like (Jonah) who called from inside the fish.

At the end of a very long and difficult revelation, Muhammad is told to not be like Jonah.

What does this mean?

Among other things, it obviously means that either Muhammad already knew the story of Jonah ...

[68:44] Therefore, let Me deal with those who reject this Hadith; we will lead them on whence they never perceive.

Ge 12:3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
...

This is part of a continuing series to show the amazing things that God has created.  It also hopefully serves as an educational tool to show just how impossible random chance evolution really is.

In the deep sea, where light is dim and blue, animals with bigger eyes see better—but ...