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- Featuring Dr Jay Smith
(Christian apologist)
Born 1953 (age 70-71)
India
Nationality American
Education
- B.A. Messiah College
M.Div. Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.A Fuller Theological Seminary Ph.D Melbourne School of Theology
Occupation(s) Christian evangelist , Historian
Known for apologetics, polemics, historical critique of Islam
and Christianity
Jay Smith (born 1953) is an American Christian evangelist. Since
1983, he has been a full-time missionary with the Brethren in
Christ Church with a focus on apologetics and polemics among
the Muslims of London.
Biography:
Early life
Smith was born in India to Brethren in Christ missionaries and
attended Woodstock School in India. His grandparents were also
missionaries. He earned a BA from Messiah College and then a
Masters of Divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
in apologetics. He has also earned an MA in Islamics from the
Fuller Theological Seminary, and a PhD in apologetics and polemics
from the Melbourne School of Theology.
Focus on Islam
In 1981, while studying for his masters, Smith attended a seminar
on Islam while noting that there were only 1,500 Christians ministering
to Muslims worldwide, he decided to become a missionary to the
Muslim world and pursued a second master's degree in Islamic
studies from Fuller Theological Seminary.
In 1987, Smith moved to Senegal as a missionary and in 1992,
he moved to London where he continued his education at the School
of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Theology.
In 2001, he halted his education to concentrate on apologetics
following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
In 2010, Smith resumed work on his PhD at the Melbourne School
of Theology which he completed in March 2017. He helped run the
Hyde Park Christian Fellowship, which emphasizes the use of polemics
with Muslims alongside apologetics, and has made appearances
at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London for over 24 years. Smith
also engages in formal public debates with prominent Muslim apologists
and scholars including Omar Bakri Muhammad, Azzam Tamimi, Shabir
Ally, Anjem Choudary, Abdur Raheem Green and Edip Yüksel.
Smith believes that although both Islam and Christianity include
radicals, moderates, and liberals, it is radical Muslims that
commit violence as they take the Qur'an seriously, while radical
Christians who also take the Bible seriously serve others in
love. He claims that radical Muslims model their lives on Muhammad,
while radical Christians model their lives on Jesus Christ. Smith
believes the growth in radical Islam in Britain is due to disaffected
Muslims, often minimally religious, returning to their Islamic
roots. He says that after reading the Islamic scriptures, (the
Qur'an in conjunction with the hadith, tafsir, and sira), they
come to the conclusion that the Salafi/Athari understanding is
the true form of Islam. Smith also believes that although Western
actions in the Islamic world can instigate Muslim discontent,
it is the Islamic scriptures that encourage the violence. He
also rues the fact that moderate Muslims are not able to challenge
the radicals using scripture because he believes the radicals
have the scriptural authority. Smith believes that ultimately
Muslims and others will realize that the Muslim scriptures, coupled
with the example of their prophet Muhammad, are irrelevant to
modern times.
Smith's polemical approach has been praised by the Salafi Omar
Bakri Muhammad who states:
I feel very comfortable with Jay (Smith, the apologist) - with
him what you see is what you get. He is no hypocrite, and neither
are Salafis. His words and actions match his heart. He does not
pretend by saying soft words about Islam. The Qu'ran calls for
debate
Most U.S. evangelicals refuse to debate Muslims,
unlike the courage of Jay, who boldly cries "Jesus is Lord!"
- Source: Wikipedia, the
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Dismantling
Islam: Session 1 - 200K
views 12.5.23 |
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Dismantling
Islam: Session 2 - 102K
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ISLAM'S ORIGINS
(Part 1) What Muslims won't say about their Sources & Mecca!
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RISLAM'S ORIGINS
(Part 2) What Muslims won't say about Muhammad & the Qur'an!
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The Qur'an was Originally
Aramaic, & All about Jesus!
- 148K views 1 year ago |
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Radical Islam is Seducing America
Because of this Lie - Dr. Jay Smith -
46K views 4 mths ago |
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Jay Smith 1- Islam
in Britain: Setting the Scene
- 18K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith 2 - Theological
Differences Our Hermeneutical Key
- 17K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith 3 - Islam's Practises and Beliefs - 83K views 5 years ago |
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Jay
Smith 4 - Critique of the Qur'an an internal & external Critique - 67K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith 5 - Your Personal
Witness to Muslims -
8.1K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith 6
- Authority of the Bible
- 23K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith - 7 Areas Christianity Always
Wins - 197K views
9 years ago |
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Jay Smith 8 - Issa vs Jesus - 40K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith 9 - Understanding and using apologetics/polemics - 19K views 5 years ago |
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Jay Smith 10 - Which
is the true religion of peace: Islam or Christianity? - 52K views 5 yrs |
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Jay Smith 11 - Missiological
methodologies - 14K
views 5 years |
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1. Jay Smith: An
Introduction to Islam in the West
- 109K views 5 years ago in LONDON |
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2. Jay Smith: The Crisis with ISIS, and
Islamic Radicalism
- 45K views 5 years ago |
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3. Jay Smith: Muhammad - A Historical Critique
- 79K views 5 years
ago |
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4. Jay Smith:
Muhammad - A Historical Critique - 431K
views 5 years ago |
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5. Jay Smith: The Qur'an - A
Historical Critique
- 248K views 5 years ago |
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6. Jay Smith: Yahweh
vs Allah and the The Insider Movement - 180K views 5 years ago |
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How to Defend Against Radical Islam w/
Dr. Jay Smith - 141K
views 3 months ago |
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The Root of the Issue with Dr. Jay Smith - 54K views Streamed 3 months
ago |
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WHERE DID ISLAM ORIGINATE:
MECCA OR PETRA? - 9.8K views 1 year ago |
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Jay Smith destroying
(The Quran & Mecca) - 154K
views 2 years ago |
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DID MUHAMMAD
EXIST? "Nope",
here's why! - 410K
views 2 years ago |
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Robert
Spencer interviewed on 'Did Muhammad Exist?' - 176K views Streamed 3 years ago |
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DEBATE: Did the Muhammad of Islam Exist? David
Wood vs Jay Smith
- 127K views 3 years ago |
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The 10 Most Common Questions Posed by Muslims
and How to Respond - Jay -
299K views |
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DEBATE @ S.C. - JAY
SMITH vs MUHAMMAD HIJAB - 266K views 6 years ago |
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Jay Smith: The Historical Origins of Islam - 287K views 7 years ago |
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The Classical Debates - Jay Smith
vs. Dr. Shabir Ally
- 927K views 9 years ago |
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- Missionaries: Muslims meeting
Jesus in dreams 'in levels we have never seen in
- 1,400 years!' - January 1, 2024
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The Differences Between
ISLAM and CHRISTIANITY
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John Macarthur challenged by a Muslim - 155,342 views Apr 14, 2020 |
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