38 docs tagged with "cheatsheet"

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Islamic Theology of Allah

Best for: Debates with Jewish objectors, anti-missionaries (Rabbi Tovia Singer style)

Use when: Someone says Jesus is not God, the Trinity was invented by councils, or worshipping Jesus is idolatry.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Use this when: discussing how Muhammad received the Quran, or when engaging the claim that Islamic revelation came through a trustworthy angel. The sources below raise serious questions about the nature of Muhammad's revelatory encounter.

Use this alongside the full document during conversations or debate prep. Every point here is expandable from the detailed version.

Use this when: someone claims the Genesis Flood is myth, a local event, or a borrowed Babylonian story. These five arguments work from Scripture alone and require no scientific background.

Use when6, Exodus 3210) to argue God is mutable, makes mistakes, or can be talked out of decisions.

Use this when: engaging claims that the hadith corpus is a reliable, divinely guided record — or when a Muslim appeals to it as a source of miraculous wisdom. These are all from canonical collections.

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Use this when: discussing the Islamic vision of salvation, the afterlife, or contrasting the Christian hope with the Islamic one. The sources below reveal a paradise defined largely by sensory gratification and a hell whose population is determined by Allah's arbitrary will.

Use this when: in conversation with a Muslim who claims "Islam is scientifically accurate" or who points to Quranic miracles. These hadith show what the canonical sources actually say about medicine, astronomy, and weather — and none of it aligns with modern science.

Use when: Someone dismisses Israel's return as political coincidence, argues the church replaced Israel in all prophecy, or questions whether 1948 means anything theologically.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Islamic Christology

Use when: Someone argues the KJV is the only inspired Bible, that modern translations are corrupt or satanic, or that the Textus Receptus is the only reliable Greek text.

Use this when: talking with LDS missionaries or friends who believe God was once a man, humans can become gods, Jesus and Lucifer are brothers, and the Father has a physical body.

"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."

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Use this when: a specific Islamic topic comes up that does not fit neatly into a larger category, or when making a quick point about the internal contradictions, odd rulings, or historical curiosities in the Islamic corpus.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Muhammad's Life and Prophethood

Use when: Someone claims the Bible has been corrupted (tahrif), the NT canon was invented at Nicaea, or 2,000 years of copying destroyed the text.

Use this when intellectual and pastoral. This cheatsheet covers both.

Use this when: a Muslim claims Islam is uniquely egalitarian and anti-racist, or when discussing Islam's record on race in its canonical texts. These sources are from Sahih and Hasan-graded collections.

Use this when: responding to claims that Islam has a high view of sexual ethics or when engaging the topic of slavery, captive women, and age of consent in Islamic jurisprudence. These sources are from canonical texts, not fringe interpretations.

Use this when: engaging with a Shia Muslim, or when a Sunni Muslim argues that Shia Islam is a separate religion. This document covers Shia-specific beliefs, their own hadith sources (thaqalayn), and key differences from Sunni Islam.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Islamic Permissible Deception

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — The Quranic Treatment of Scripture

Use this when: a Muslim invokes the Sahaba as morally exemplary figures or claims the early Islamic community was a model of purity. The sources below come from canonical collections.

Use when: Someone asks why they should trust God's promises, fears losing their salvation, or is walking through suffering and wondering if God has moved.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Quranic Reliability

Use this when: guiding someone through the biblical storyline to show that Christ is not an afterthought added to the Jewish story — he is the one figure the entire Old Testament was pointing toward, step by step, from Genesis 3 to Malachi. Works in evangelism, discipleship, and against Jewish or Muslim challenges that Jesus is a departure from the Hebrew scriptures.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Violence in Islam

Use this when: someone objects that sacrificial atonement is morally primitive, that the Aqedah shows God endorses child sacrifice, or that Jesus's death has nothing to do with the Hebrew sacrificial system. Works against Jewish, Muslim, and secular objections.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Women in Islam

Use this when: discussing Islamic spiritual practices or when a Muslim argues that Islamic ritual purity is divinely prescribed precision. These hadiths come from canonical collections and describe Satan interacting directly with ritual and bodily functions.