re: Was it common knowledge that "God's Not Dead" was filmed at LSU?

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Meh, as a Christian, I thought the Muslim girl and her dad's response to her conversion should have been left on the edit room floor

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It was obviously a much milder reaction than IRL.


The movie started off very slowly, but it did pick up in the last 30 minutes.

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Christians and Muslims worship the same God, dude.

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"Dude" I understand you are just being an atheist, but that is still a pathetic statement to make, even as an unbeliever.

Muslims do not speak of God as their heavenly Father. In the Islamic faith, Allah is not only a different name for God; the deity it designates is far more impersonal than the God of the Bible. Father—the very name that Jesus gave us as the designated name for use in prayer—is a name that simply does not fit Allah as depicted in the Quran.

Furthermore, Muslims claim that Allah has no son. This represents a head-on collision between the God of the Bible and Allah. For, as the Bible makes clear, the one and only true God is most perfectly revealed as the Father of the Son, Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of John, Jesus repeatedly teaches that no one has truly known the Father, except by the Son. In one of the most clarifying verses in the New Testament, Jesus declared Himself to be “the way, and the truth, and the life,” adding, “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

Because Muslims deny that God has a son, they explicitly reject any Trinitarian language. From the very starting point, Islam denies what Christianity takes as its central truth claim: the fact that Jesus Christ is the only begotten of the Father. If Allah has no son, then Allah is not the God who reveals Himself through the Son. How then can calling God “Allah” not lead to anything but confusion—and worse?

Islam teaches that the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemous. But the Christian faith is essentially and irreducibly Trinitarian. The Bible reveals that the Father is God, that the Son is God, and that the Holy Spirit is God. Jesus is not merely a prophet, as acknowledged by Muslims, He is God in human flesh. This is precisely what Islam rejects.

The Trinitarian language is the language of the Bible, and it is essential to Christianity. Indeed, the Christian faith points to Christ and announces that we can only know the Father through the Son. Confusing the God of the Bible with Allah of the Quran is not only a mistake, it is a dangerous distortion of the Gospel of Christ.

One of the most amazing things about the movie is that a philosophy professor let a freshman beat him using philosophy 101 arguments. It's hilarious. How did he ever manage to defend his dissertation?

This thread is gold.