“Where’s The Evidence?” - Christian Apologist CHALLENGES The Truth About Islam

0:00But you read the Quran, you obviously read the Bible many times and you've gone through the studies, the researches that you've done. What is your impression of, you know, the religion of Islam and prophet Muhammad? When you read about him and you read the stories, you know, one asks what caused this religion to get us popular as it is that in the world today, one out of four person living today is a Muslim. How did that happen? What was so special about prophet Muhammad? Yeah. Well, you know, Islam was spread by the sword in the early days. It was a conquest religion, to conquer other peoples. And you know, I look at the life of Jesus and how He lived and what He taught the Beatitudes, the sermon on the Mount, His beautiful, wonderful life-changing sermons and teachings that He gave His parables. And then I can contrast that with Muhammad and say, Gali, He consummated His marriage with

1:03a nine-year-old, I mean, seriously. And you know, I have friends, Nabil Kureshi was my good friend, who was a doctor, medical doctor, who wrote a book called Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus. And it's a powerful book about how He did the search and investigated Christianity as a Muslim and became a devout Christian. We became real good friends. He died of cancer. I was at his bedside shortly before he passed. And he did what few people do, which is to say, I'm going to investigate it. I'm going to check it out. I'm going to look at what is the evidence for the truth of Islam versus what is the evidence for the truth of Christianity? I just encourage anybody to do that. Be as objective as possible. I'll tell you, I have a good friend who's a Muslim and he came over to my house for dinner and we're grilling in the backyard. And I said, you know, let's set aside religion, let's just set aside religion. Let's just look at history, let's look at facts.

2:04I've got all of this evidence that Jesus did die on the cross, these things we talked about earlier. I've got these four E's that point to not only the death of Jesus, but its resurrection from the dead. I said, these are first-century sources, this goes right back to the beginning. And then I said, what have you got? You've got a book, 600 years later, by a guy who said an angel and a cave told him it isn't true. It's surah 4 verse 157, Jesus didn't really die on the cross. I said, let's just look at, let's just weigh the historical data. Where does that come out? And he looked at me and said, I choose to believe the Quran. Okay, you have that freedom to do it, but I'm asking, where's the evidence? Where are the facts? Where's the data? And I believe it points toward the truth of Christianity. So we're facing a very interesting time with the rise of Islam around the world and some of the values that seem to be clashing with American values and so forth.

3:06So I'm going on 75 years old and I'm kind of happy that I'm going to be checking out before too long. I'm not sure I want to be around for the next 20 years. But because of what could happen by 2050? Yeah, I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen because like, well, in the end, Christianity wins. In the end, Jesus wins. In the end, God wins. That's not to say there's not going to be some great tribulation and difficulty in the interim. And I think there will be. I think we're seeing that around the world. My goodness, what happened to the ability of people in free countries like Australia, like England, so forth in Scotland, to freely express their faith and it's being squelched and what's the consequence? Its consequences, people are reluctant to share Jesus, reluctant to proclaim themselves as being Christians. Yeah, I mean, you, you, again, going through the numbers. I have the numbers here with the countries went from a majority Christian to a majority

4:07Muslim, right? Turkey, one of them. You know that? Right. We've read before. Yeah. You got Egypt, Christian, you know, one of the earliest Christian centers, Coptic Christianity, Muslim Conquist in the seventh century, 90% Muslim Syria, early Christian hub, majority Muslim Iraq, same thing, strong early Christian presence, Assyrians, my father's in Assyrian. Now we know where they're at. Northern Africa. You hear the stories with Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, almost entirely Muslim. Lebanon. Yeah. Look at that. I'm sure you're right now. But the part with this is, if one were to look and say, you know, this is growing and a lot of different, it's coming to Europe and it's not coming to US, it's growing aggressively in US as well. Right. Now we got people politically that are involved to, you know, our Muslim, our biggest city, the financial capital of the world, is being ran by a socialist, some even categorically, categorically, call them a communist Muslim, who is sitting there praying and, you know,

5:10in his wife had tweets in which he was endorsing the massacre that took place, which is, to me, unconscionable. But how do we get here in the greatest country in the world in the country that was a Christian majority? I mean, my hope is there's a turning point coming. My hope is that when people see this, like the mayor of New York and others, that this will be a kind of a turning point in our country to say, wait a minute, we need to get back to the values that our country was founded on. And it's not values of violence and so forth. It's values of free speech, but it's also values, moral values that sync up with Christianity. Yeah, hopefully. Well, you know, I got, my best friend in college was a Muslim from Turkey. And I led him to the Lord, Jesus Christ, because he was willing to listen to the evidence. So I'm a little bit naive in the sense that I think Christianity has a truth on its side.

6:11And I think ultimately truth ought to prevail. There's a lot of barriers. There's a lot of issues, but and it's tough, and I think it's going to be a lot of conflict in the coming years. I mean, my brothers and sisters in Nigeria being slaughtered, slaughtered, slaughtered. And nobody cares. 53K in the last, I don't know what the number is, but. Nobody's talking about, no, what politician is, you know, speaking out on this issue. So, you know, we've gone down this path far enough, and I'm hoping that there'll be a turning point, but I'm just not sure. I just, I just have my faith that Jesus is going to come back. It's good to be there because the one data, Rob, if you want to go to the Gen Z data that we had, this Gen Z data that just came out this year, this is a US Protestant senior pastors from January 29th to 2026. They were showing, over the past year, if you look at Gen Z, a rise in next Gen engagement, higher engagement in Gen Z ages 13 to 26 years old, 45%, millennials, 27 to 41, 42%.

7:18Gen X gets lower to 31, boomers, lower engagement at 25, men, 36% versus 31 women. Ages 18 to 35, that's a massive. Yes. So, when you see this, this gives you hope. It does. Right? This gives you hope. And how much of this you think could have also been a direct impact of what Charlie was doing, the late grade Charlie was doing? How much do you think this impact could be in as well? He certainly sparked something on these college campuses. He had the courage to go in. He lost his life because he did it. He had the courage to go in and defend the Christian worldview in front of often hostile audiences. And I think it made an impact. I think people said, wait a minute, what did he say? Maybe I should think about that. Could there be truth to them? And so I think he sparked a lot of this stuff. And it's encouraging to me. Now, you can cite all kinds of numbers as you have, legitimately showing the people who claim to be Christians has gone down significantly. Sure. But I'm seeing people engaging with the Bible more and more among young people.

8:23That, to me, is a very positive sign, but there's a lot of work to be done. There's no question. There's a lot of work to be done. By the way, how do you view President Trump's relationship with God? How do you process that? Because you've heard some of the things he said, I'm curious how you view it. I do not know. I just honestly do not know. There's a man that got up and said, I never say I'm sorry. Whereas Christianity involves confessing our sins, turning from those, receiving grace through Jesus Christ and so forth. I don't know him personally. And so I hate to venture any kind of conclusion. But, you know, and I see certain things he does that kind of make me go, hmm, that doesn't sound like Jesus to me. And I see other things and I go, yeah, that's, so it's a mixed bag to me. And I think I want to use this people like that. At times like this, do you think that sometimes uses the most interesting characters

9:23that you may look at and say, you're going to use him, you're going to use her? Yes, look through the Bible. Look through the people God has used in the past. Look at David. I mean, an adulterer who killed this guy and so forth. God uses all kinds of people for which we accomplish his will. So, yeah. Hi, I'm Lee Strobel. Atheist turned Christian, author of several books, including The Case for Christ and Seeing the Supernatural. You might have questions about faith, about how we know that Jesus is who we claim to be. And that there really is a realm beyond what we can see and touch and put in a test to. So I'd love to chat with you about that. Just go to a connect. And then we can connect and talk about these matters of faith that are so important to our lives. If you enjoy this video, you want to watch more videos like this, click here. And if you want to watch the entire podcast, click here.