Did Mary wear a Hijab?

Muslims also like to justify their position on women wearing a veil by claiming that Mary wore a hijab.  Is this really true?  We actually do not have any verses on what Mary wore.
Even if we did, that would not translate into a mandate for us 20 centuries later in a different culture and different climate, where people have the ability to turn on air conditioning, heating, and so forth.

But the fact that there is no verse that says what Mary wore shows her wardrobe is not that important.

Can God Die? Did God Die?

This is one of the more common arguments Muslims use, as silly as it is.
They say that Jesus is God, and when Jesus died, then God died.

The natural response is that there is more than one meaning to death.  For a doctor, it means time to finish the paperwork.  In a religious arena, death is just the start of a new eternal life.  If there were no such eternal life then all this discussion would be without meaning.

Trinity: Is Jesus "Begotten"? *

You may as well be the one who brings up the "only begotten son" subject.  Even with Muslims who I thought should have known better, I discovered that they thought that Christians believe that God had inappropriate relations with Mary to beget Jesus.  This misunderstanding is motivated by verses in the Quran and is also part of the prevailing cloud of anti-Christian polemics that Muslims spread.

The King James Version famously translates John 3:16 like this:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son...
--John 3:16 (KJV)

Modern versions translate this in various ways and usually have footnotes, but English-speaking  Muslims have focused on this phrase to justify this attack.

 One of the reasons we still use the KJV is that it is a word-for-word translation, and, since the words have not changed much, it is hard to improve on it.  And so, in this case they naturally translated the word "Monogenēs" as "only begotten".

However, it is really not that simple.  "Monogenēs" only occurs a few times  in the New Testament, and is rare in ancient literature.  You can't use a word that has unclear meaning, and  is not even part of the topic of this verse to justify a doctrine.

Muslims sometimes say there are thousands of sects of Christianity.  Indeed, it seems every possible way to interpret the Bible has been described, given a name, debated, and dismissed by one group and adopted by another.  But I am unable to find a sect that believed that God had carnal relations with Mary at any time in history.  Muslims haven't either.

Is Adam Greater Than Jesus Because Adam Had No Mother Or Father?

This is just a quick observation.  Both Jesus and Adam had no earthly father.  However, Adam could not have been born of parents because otherwise he would not have been the first person.
Jesus is born of a virgin in Christianity because he already existed before he was born.  He was always with God.  He did not have an earthly father like us.  Islam does not explain why Jesus was born of a virgin unlike everyone else.

The Quran cannot be Translated

In discussions with Muslims, this situation sometimes arises when you make a good point:

You are asked aggressively, ‘do you know Arabic?’ Then you are told triumphantly, ‘You have to read it in the original Arabic to understand it fully’.


This causes us to ask some questions:

• How can Muslims claim the Quran is a revelation for all people when only a minority of people worldwide understand Arabic?
• The Quran quotes people who never spoke Arabic.  Isn't the Quran already in part already a translation in its original Arabic?

Deceiving Western Women Into Islam

The stories told in this video are all too common.
The façade of truth only has to last as long as it takes to get married and get a green card.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77SIsskUmW8

The speaker in this video has made his own Quran translation that is more honest than those produced by Muslims.

Can the Quran Be Translated?

Many Muslims claim the Quran can't be translated. 
At the same time the Quran contains many quotations from people like the Pharaoh or the Hebrew prophets who never spoke Arabic. 
So in principle parts of the Quran ought to be able to be represented in other languages more accurately than the Quran represents them.

Usually when Muslim say the Quran cannot be translated it is because there is a passage they do not want to discuss.  It is basically a trick.  If you ask them to explain the passage in English, they will be able to do so--but if they can explain it then they can translate it.