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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Christian apologist Sam Shamoun recounts his journey from bodybuilding and confusion to finding faith in Christ. He explains how reading the Quran led him back to the New Testament, reigniting his love for Jesus and deepening his conviction that Christianity and Islam are not the same.
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| 0:00.0 | If somebody goes and searches you and they type in your name and go to views, it's you and Muslims, back and forth. Let's play one of them, Rob. Actually play the other one. Play this one here first. Oh, that was my first public debate. So this is your first public debate. So this is your first public debate. Go ahead, Rob. The woman can be beaten according to the glorious Quran. Now do you want to get into a long discussion? |
| 0:22.6 | What is the position of women in the Quran and the Bible? |
| 0:25.7 | I mean, we can do that. |
| 0:27.2 | The book of Revelation, chapter 14, verses 4 and 5, shows that women will not enter paradise. |
| 0:34.7 | He talks about Revelation 14. |
| 0:36.2 | That doesn't work. |
| 0:38.3 | Read the context. It's speaking of 144,000 of Israel who were specifically chosen for a task. |
| 0:44.3 | After mentioning the 144,000, this is what you conveniently forgot. |
| 0:50.3 | Revelation 7 verse 9, I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count from every nation, tribe, people and language standing before the throne in front of the Lamb. |
| 1:03.0 | They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands and they cried out in a loud voice, |
| 1:09.0 | salvation belongs to our God, |
| 1:11.6 | who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. |
| 1:13.7 | That's the context. |
| 1:15.2 | Do not miscoat my scripture. |
| 1:17.9 | So, I mean, this is where a lot of the stuff out there for you. |
| 1:21.0 | But what I want to do is, before we can go in here, I just want to learn about you. |
| 1:24.5 | I want to know your story. |
| 1:25.4 | So walk me through how you go where you were at to now being able to sit down against any Muslim, pretty much, |
| 1:32.3 | and have a strong debate with them. |
| 1:34.5 | How did that happen? |
| 1:35.3 | By the way, this is a debate, I had just stopped bodybuilding. |
| 1:39.6 | Just to give you a little background, I come from a family of bodybuilders. |
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