Gentle Answer Conversations

In this series of short audios, Dr. Gordon Nickel highlights some of the most interesting points from his book The Gentle Answer.

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Audio 1: Introduction 

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Audio 2: Are there accusations in the Qur'an that the Bible was falsified?

Most of the stories in the earliest commentaries assume an intact text of the Torah.

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Audio 4: Different scriptural approaches to the identity of Jesus.

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What is the comparative importance of eyewitness testimony in the Gospel and the Qur'an? 

Audio 6: What makes the text of the Qur'an so uncertain?

It took almost three centuries to perfect a system able to capture the recitations. 

Audio 8: The relationship of the Qur'an to history

Taking the death of Jesus as a test case, how seriously does the Qur'an take historical fact?

Audio 3: The accusation is false. 

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Is there any evidence of change in the Bible during the 7th Century related to the messenger of Islam? 

Audio 5: Exciting discoveries of early New Testament manuscripts.

What do they tell us about the transmission of the Gospel during the early centuries? 

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Audio 7: Do the Birmingham manuscripts prove an early date for the Qur'an?

Carbon-14 dating of the parchment seems to raise more problems than it solves.

Audio 9: Jesus is the Son of God

How do we commend important truths about Jesus in the face of Islamic denial? 

Audio 10: Commending Jesus to the Muslim mind

We set our sights on faithful witness and good relationships