Answering Islam

• What we can offer you
• How you can help us
• Your Local Church & Islam
• If War Should Happen, What Should Be Done?

How we can help you:

The "Answering Islam" site is mainly designed for a dialog with Muslims, but many Christians read it as well and learn about some important approaches, topics and arguments. If you are a Christian you might read in this site not because you stumbled upon it by chance but since Islam has for some reason become a challenge in your own life whether in your immediate family or through becoming friends with a Muslim in your workplace or neighborhood. In any case, you can find some dialog-tested answers to many claims, challenges and questions in articles that are placed here for you to learn about the Muslim arguments as well as about informed answers that Christians can give to them.

If Islam has come close to you, in family or society, you might find the following helpful:

• Loving a Muslim (LaM) - a mailing list and support group for non-Muslim women (mostly Christian) married to or in a dating relationship with a Muslim. LaM birthed COM, the Children of Muslims mailing list that is intended for children and teenagers coming from such mixed marriages who want to communicate with other children and teenagers how to live their Christian faith in this situation.
• Parents is a similar support group for (adult) Christians where some member in the family (other than your husband) is a Muslim, whether born Muslim or converted to Islam.
• The Challenge: Victory! - A Survival Manual for Christians Living Under Pressure.

Christians can no longer ignore God's purpose for the Church:

• September 11th and the Mandate of the Church

Whether living under outward oppression or in a free society, we are all involved in a spiritual battle. The following pages will give you some help to understand this topic since anyone who seeks to obey God's will and withstand Satan will attract his revenge.

• Spiritual Warfare: [1], [2], [3], [4a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,aa,ab,ac,ad]
• Adopt a Terrorist for Prayer

TRAINING AND SEMINAR MATERIALS

We will increasingly also offer training material on Islam written for Christians. Here are those we have currently available.

• Engaging with Islam is a seven session DVD course for Christians. Its goal is to help you to stand firm, to defend the gospel and to address issues quickly and confidently. Anyone can lead this course as no previous knowledge of Islam is required and leader's notes are provided. Each session is a mix of preparation, group discussion and a DVD presentation.
• Responding to Muslims is a guide mainly for personal encounter and answers we can give to the most common questions or claims of our Muslim friends.
• Answers to Common Muslim Questions
• "Life of Muhammad" Seminar
• Training Materials by G. Nehls and W. Eric:
  • Part 1: Islam: As It Sees Itself - As Others See It - As It Is
  • Part 2: The Islamic Christian Controversy
  • Books by G. Nehls for both Muslim and Christian readers
• Books by John Gilchrist:
  • Facing the Muslim Challenge
  • Sharing the Gospel with Muslims
  • Volume 1: Muhammad and the Religion of Islam
  • Volume 2: The Christian Witness to the Muslim
  • Our Approach to Islam: Charity or Militancy?
  • Books addressed to the Muslim reader

The training books by Nehls and Eric and the two volumes by Gilchrist are of substantial depth and designed to learn about Islam in considerable detail, as well as giving a Christian perspective and evaluation of the presented facts.

• "The Way of Righteousness" is a chronological presentation of the essential stories and singular message of God's prophets according to the Taurat, Zabur, and Injil. This 100-lesson series permits the Muslim reader to give an honest reply to the all-important question of Scripture: "Do you believe the prophets?" (Acts 26:27). See also the appendices ([A],[B],[C],[D]) for more explanation on the structure and usage of the material.
• Converging Destinies: Jerusalem, Peace and Al Masih and a "user guide" to this peace tract.
• Gospel presentations videos you may want to watch with your Muslim friends.
• Middle East Resources by Bassam & Shirley Madany
• Sam Schlorff helps us rethink some issues:
• Theological and Apologetical Dimensions of Muslim Evangelization
• Muslim Ideology and Christian Apologetics
• Material by Ernest Hahn:
• Christians-Muslim Meetings: Some Planning Guidelines
• Sharing Jesus as the Incarnate Deity with Muslims
• Other books, articles and tracts
• Using the Qur'an in Evangelism
• Book recommendation: Mission to Islam and Beyond: A Practical Theology of Mission and much more in the
• Answering Islam Library of Classical Books
• Treasures In Paper: Books On Islam For Ministry & Information

Smaller articles: Our Attitude Towards Muslims Is Important

(University) Education and Training programs:

• CIU : Master of Arts, concentration in Muslim Studies

How you can help us:

There are errors on our pages. Trivial ones like misprints and more serious ones due to oversight or ignorance. You can help us by sending us a message each time you detect an error. Most people don't bother and just read over it. But you can make a serious contribution by taking the few minutes to explain to us on which page (give address, we have over 10,000 pages and it is not easy to find if you don't tell us where) and what is wrong. If more people would do this, that would mean serious improvement. Some Muslims like to dismiss our material if they find errors. If you help us correct them, it will help the arguments being taken more seriously.

Furthermore, if you see a topic, or only a paragraph or just one argument that needs improvement, and you recognize either why it is wrong, or how to fix it, please let us know. We are serious in our desire to improve what can be improved. If you see a good argument but it is poorly expressed, help us formulate it in a better way.