Dr jerald dirks biography of william
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What You Weren't Taught in Sunday School (Dr. Jerald F. Dirks)
ISBN: 9781590080696
Author: Dr. Jerald F. Dirks
Publisher: Amana Publications (2011)
Pages: 347 Binding: Paperback
Description from the publisher:
In What You Weren't Taught In Sunday School, Dr. Jerald Dirks, a former ordained minister (deacon) in the United Methodist Church and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, kicks open the door and reveals some of the skeletons hidden in the closet of Biblical and Christian history—skeletons that raise disturbing questions.
How is it that the various Christian denominations have never agreed on what and how many books are to be included in both the Old Testament and the New Testament? Did St. Paul attempt to murder St. James and corrupt beyond recognition the actual teachings of Jesus? Just how completely was Paul at violent odds with the earliest form of Christianity as taught by the Jerusalem Church of St. James and the actual disciples of Jesus? How thoroughly are the concepts of Holy War and genocide embedded in the Bible? Does the Bible claim that two different people killed Goliath? Did Moses have a Nubian wife long before he married Zipporah of Midian? Was "Doubting" Thomas the actual brother of Jesus? Which Jesus was crucified, and whic
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A critical analysis of Dr. Jerald F. Dirks’ arguments
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Sam Shamoun
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In Light of the Teachings of Islam Pt. 1
Sam Shamoun
This is a continuation of our series of replies to the assertions made by Muslim convert Dr. Jerald F. Dirks.
Heretics to the rescue?
In his published works and lectures Dirks consistently appeals to heretical Christian groups which started flourishing from the second century AD onwards without bothering to mention to his audience how such groups prove that Muhammad is a false prophet and that Islam is a false religion.
For instance, in some of our previous rebuttals we saw how Dirks tries to pass off the Ebionites as an early Jewish Christian sect. However, what Dirks fails to tell his audience and/or readers is that these particular Jews were vegetarians who denied Jesus’ virginal conception and birth and were reading a Gospel which was clearly dependent upon the Synoptic Gospels, specifically the Gospel of Matthew. As one scholarly source puts it:
4. Character: in literary characterthe GE is a Gospel of the synoptic type. It may be especially related to Mt. (No. 6 has a parallel in Mt. alone), but it also assumes the two other Synoptics. The chronological and biographical statements in the account of the Baptist, the statement about the age of Jesus and the saying No. 7 come from Lk. (