New Podcast Let Us Reason - A Christian/Muslim Dialogue

Al Fadi and Joel Richardson continue their discussion on mount Sinai ,and some of the evidence that indicates its possible new location:1. The split rock where water came out of (Exodus 17: 6, Is.48:21) ; this rock is a massive rock. 2. The presence of Jewish graves; the Bible talks about 3 thousand people died after the making of the golden calf;( Exodus 32:28). 3. The presence of some petroglyph...

Al Fadi discusses  the subject of the real location of Mount Sinai with his guest speaker Joel Richardson.  Joel explains why he believes that Mt Sinai is in NW Saudi Arabia. His first line of evidence is that it is located on the eastern side of the Red Sea .The second evidence is the ancient Jewish tradition believed by Jewish historians, like Josephus and Filo which believed that Mt S...

Al Fadi is visiting this subject again as he mentions the four wrong views of government that he addressed in previous episodes.  Starting from Genesis when God instituted the civil government (Gen. 9: 5-6). In the new testament in Romans 13, government was established by God to punish evil,  we should obey the authorities , and do good.  The book of judges is a great example when c...

Al Fadi and Joel Richardson continue the discussion on the second coming of Christ.  Joel says that the Bible is very clear that no man knows the hour of His coming, and that the antichrist is not going a Jew but a military, gentile ruler who will be hostile towards the Jews.  He mentions that the peace accords that  Israel is having with its neighbors is not the peace treaty that t...

Al Fadi and  Joel Richardson continue the discussion of Joel's book " From Sinai to Zion".  This book deals with a series of prophecies which starts with Genesis 3:15 (the first gospel),and ends with the coming of the Son of Man(the second coming).  In Daniel 7, Jesus is both the Messiah; the crushing one and Yahweh (God Almighty) who is coming back to save us.  They discuss in...

Some people use passages from the Bible(Jer. 10: 2-4, Isa. 44: 14-15) to say that we should not celebrate Christmas, but Al Fadi answers three arguments of why Christians should celebrate Christmas using J Hampton Keathley III.  1. Christmas is commercialized and materialized. 2. Scripture does not authorize it.  3. The Scripture forbids it.  He points out that we have to look at th...

Al Fadi and Joel Richardson continue their discussion on the second coming of Christ.  They look at Deuteronomy 33,Isaiah 63,Psalm 68,and Habakkuk 3.  In Deuteronomy ,the Lord is marching and shining like fire and lightening from Sinai..  In Isaiah 63 the majestic marching of the Lord from Edom soaked in his enemies blood,  In Habakkuk, God radiating and shining from the south;...

Al Fadi discusses with Joel Richardson his new book ; Sinai to Zion, about the untold story of the triumphant return of Jesus.  The book has three parts: 1. The Mosaic covenant on Mt Sinai which was a bilateral covenant ,and was understood as a wedding/betrothal ceremony between God and Israel.  2. The restoration of Israel.  3. The return of Jesus on the clouds; he goes in details...

Al Fadi and Joel Richardson continue their discussion on mount Sinai ,and some of the evidence that indicates its possible new location:1. The split rock where water came out of (Exodus 17: 6, Is.48:21) ; this rock is a massive rock. 2. The presence of Jewish graves; the Bible talks about 3 thousand people died after the making of the golden calf;( Exodus 32:28). 3. The presence of some petroglyph...

Al Fadi discusses  the subject of the real location of Mount Sinai with his guest speaker Joel Richardson.  Joel explains why he believes that Mt Sinai is in NW Saudi Arabia. His first line of evidence is that it is located on the eastern side of the Red Sea .The second evidence is the ancient Jewish tradition believed by Jewish historians, like Josephus and Filo which believed that Mt S...

Al Fadi talks about the man born blind in John 9:1-7. The common world view of that day is that if a person was blind; it was either he or his parents have sinned.  Jesus refuted that by healing the man both spiritually and physically. People tend to focus on the physical and forget about the most urgent need for the human heart which is healing of the spiritual blindness.  God created u...

Al Fadi shares in details four major updates of Cira International: 1. The first quarter of the year included conferences, trainings, Arabic satellite programs, And Arabic FB page; both translation of Bible into the Saudi dialect, and preparation to launch Arabic U-tube videos to be released later. 2. During lockdown because of COVID, he started doing live steam videos from his home office(75).&nb...

The Bible does encourage Christians to participate in government for a variety of reasons including being a buffer against  the wrong interpretation of scripture.  For example ,in Daniel 4:27, Daniel told the king to break off his sins; he told him the truth and that way God used Daniel to be  a counselor.  Another example in Jeremiah 29: 7, God asked His people to seek the wel...

This view says that nothing good comes from the church's involvement in politics.  It is wrong because God left Christians on earth to influence society and that by being involved in all aspects of life , which include being in government.  Both church and government  are instruments to help restrain evil; 1 john 3: 8. Historical church involvement helped rid societies in the past o...

This view is usually held by pacifists, and it disagrees with Romans 13:1-6 ,where it says that government is a servant of God.  They take Luke 4: 5-7 out of context. We should also take the whole view of the Bible.  Daniel  4: 7 , says that the most high rules the kingdoms of men.  So God is in control of governments not Satan.  God allows governments to go after evil doe...

This view states that there is no room for religion in government and is promoted by the ACLU.  It violates the first amendment by keeping religion out of government instead of keeping the government out of religious affairs.  It also promotes atheisms as the religion of the government.  Romans 13:4 talks about government as God's agent to institute righteousness and punish evil.&nb...

 This view of government causes wars, and we have examples from the history of the church.  Jesus was opposed to this view, Luke 9: 52- 55.  True faith can not be forced; it is a voluntary decision.  We should appeal to people; Matt. 11: 28, Acts 28: 23.  In conclusion: Governments should never attempt to force religion on people, but provide freedom for all.   ...

Al Fadi continues his series on the role the church and believers in politics and the government.  He mainly focuses his time on Isaiah chapter one and compares what the nation of Israel did and what the western civilization is doing, in the way that they left the biblical values and followed the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah,vs10.  He also compares verse 15 when Israel's hands were full of...

Al Fadi introduces a new series on the Christian role in government.  He explains that according to the Bible, government is appointed by God whether we like it or not ,Romans 13: 1-7.  He also explains that 1 Timothy 2: 1-4, explains that the role of people in government ties with God's plan of salvation.  In the next few weeks he is going to discuss 5 wrong views about Christians...

Jay Smith talks with Al Fadi about the many different Qurans that he and Hatun Tash found. Just between the Warsh and the Hafs copies, there is five thousand differences.  This is specially problematic because the Quran and Muslims claim that there is not one letter is changed in the Quran.  Some Muslim  debaters like Yasir Qaadi and Mohammad Hijab admit that there are holes in the...

Jay and Al Fadi discuss that there is more than seven different Arabic Qurans , and none of them is from the time of Uthman (the third Muslim caliph).  They debunk the claim of Muslims that the Quran has been preserved,never been created and can't be changed;(Q 85:22,15:9).  In the time of Uthman; one Quran copy,  in the Qurashi dialect,  was chosen and all other copies were co...

Al Fadi discusses what  the believers reaction should be  towards rioting.  He says that we should not take sides, but think of people who are created in God's image. TheBible does not codon riots, in fact the Bible mentions that Paul faced riots because of his message, Acts 19: 23-41,  which stirred up jealousy and riots.  The reason was that Paul's new message was going...

Al Fadi and Jay Smith are answering several questions from - the material that Dan Gibson did introducing that the Qibla was originally in Petra,Jordan not Mecca ,Saudi Arabia. To- The Madina charter(agreement) articles, where Muhammad demanded that every non Muslim sign especially the Jews; who refused. They also talked about the standardization  of the Quranic text from 1924-1985. See omnys...

Al Fadi continues his teaching about being the church from last time using Colossians 3:12-17. How to behave in kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, first towards one another as believers and then towards non believers to bring glory to God.  Take advantage to share the peace of Christ with others in the middle of the uncertain times we are in.  See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Al Fadi continues his series on how to respond to crisis as Christians; 5. By giving to the needy brothers and sisters in the lord (1 john 3:17).  6. Remain connected to the body of Christ; being isolated is dangerous; and there is a lot of ways to stay connected on line.  7. Be the church; remember we need to be the salt and light of the world.  People are more open to listen to th...