Ed Morrow - UglyFish

If you want to find the Kingdom of God, you need to be looking for it or digging for it. Once you find it, you'll give up everything else for it. Matthew 13

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Most Christians don’t know this but the Quran mentions Jesus - a lot.

However, it denies that he was actually crucified and raised again.

Surah 4:157 says, “They did not kill him, nor crucify him. It was only made to appear so.”

Muslims point to this verse and say, “See? Jesus never died.”

But honestly, if you care about truth, this verse should disturb you more than reassure you.

Because now you have to ask:

Why does the Quran, written 600 years later, contradict every first-century historical source we have?

Christian sources.
Jewish sources.
Roman historians like Tacitus.
Josephus.
Early church fathers.

They all affirm the crucifixion of Jesus.

And then the Quran arrives centuries later with no eyewitnesses, no names, no timeline, and simply says, “It only appeared so.”

That’s not historical evidence. That’s a rewrite.

And then the questions get even harder.

If Jesus never died, why does Surah 3:55 say Allah raised him?

Raised him from what?

Why is Jesus the only prophet still alive according to Islamic theology?

Why is he the only one returning to judge the world?

And if Allah made the world believe Jesus was crucified, then wouldn’t that make Allah the author of the very belief system Islam later rejects?

Because the Torah, the prophets, and the Gospel all point to the cross.

So if the crucifixion was fake, then Islam is built on a global deception allowed by God Himself.

Why is that seen as protection instead of contradiction?

This verse was not written to clarify Jesus’ story.

It was written to erase it.

But the irony is this:

The more people try to delete the cross, the more undeniable it becomes.

Because the truth does not disappear when attacked.

And neither does Christ.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

I wish someone told me this when I was Muslim. It would have saved me many years of wrestling.

I thought accepting Jesus meant betraying Allah and throwing away my devotion. That was the lie that kept me trapped.

But the truth is, everything I loved about God - His majesty, holiness, mercy, grace - came alive when I met Him in Christ.

God is so glorious and mighty, plus, He wasn’t distant anymore. Still all-powerful, but now with me - near me. My old faith felt like pushing a car with no engine. It moved, but it was exhausting. Jesus didn’t replace the car. He became the engine.

Now the same devotion is there, but God sustains it. I’m not carrying it alone. That’s what Christ does.

He doesn’t kill your love for God.
He breathes on it.
He multiplies it.
Prayer becomes alive.
Fasting goes deeper.
Worship becomes relationship.

You don’t lose God when you follow Jesus. You finally find Him.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The Quran actually mashes a bunch of MAJOR stories together. For example, Saul and Gideon, it straight up remixes the biblical account and then calls it “New Revelation.”

In 1 Samuel, Saul is chosen as Israel’s king. He’s tall, strong, and anointed by Samuel.

In Judges 7, Gideon is the one who tests his army by the water. Those who lap like dogs are cut, those who drink properly stay.

Two different leaders. Two different times in history.

But in Surah 2:246–252, the Quran gives that water test to Saul.

That’s like saying George Washington crossed the Atlantic Ocean to discover America in 1492.

Totally different people. Totally different events.

But the Quran fuses them into one blended story.

Why is nobody talking about this?

That’s not Revelation—that’s confusion.

The details are undeniably the same, and it’s undeniably a mix-up.

And here’s what hit me:

As a Muslim reading the Bible, I realized something.

The Bible is laser precise with names, places, and timelines, because God actually moved in real history.

But the Quran feels like someone overheard Jewish and Christian stories, mashed them together, and turned them into a moral lesson.

And if the book I was reading can’t keep Saul and Gideon straight, how could I trust it with my eternity?

The God of Scripture doesn’t blur history.

He writes it in detail, and every story points forward.

The entire Old Testament is a witness to the coming of Christ. And that’s why I accepted Him as my Lord and Savior.

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

A common response to the fine-tuning argument is to say that of course the universe is finely tuned, because if it wasn't we wouldn't be here to observe it.

That's a truism and a tautology, not an explanation.

Think of it this way. You're standing before a firing squad of dozens of skilled shooters, all with loaded weapons pointed straight at you, who all fire at you simultaneously. Yet you walk away unscathed. Your response? Well, if I hadn't survived, I wouldn't be here to observe it. Does that explain this extremely improbable outcome? No. It's a statement of the obvious, but you'd be searching for answers.

In the same way, the fine-tuning of the universe to allow conscious life cries out for an explanation. The possibilities are that this happened by

1. Chance
2. Necessity
3. Design

Option 1 is the firing squad problem. The odds are so overwhelmingly against this "just happening" that proponents have resorted to untestable and bizarre explanations like an infinite multiverse.

There is no evidence for Option 2. Nothing in the laws of nature requires the finely-tuned parameters of the universe to be the way they are.

Logically, this leaves Option 3 as the most probable explanation.

When I was a physics student coming out of my lifelong atheism, I was deeply moved by this argument. It didn't matter what my prejudices were, the logic was so sound that I couldn't see any way around it.

[Ed Morrow - UglyFish @EdwardDMorrow]

It’s been 40 years since I drank any alcohol. I’m a bit embarrassed, but I thought it was worth a picture on social media. If for nothing else, to show those who are struggling that it can be done.

If you’re struggling, get help. Do it now.

[Ed Morrow - UglyFish @EdwardDMorrow]

NASA astronauts make an incredible discovery as they see the dark side of the moon in greater detail for the first time!
#NASA #ArtemisII #Easter

[Ed Morrow - UglyFish @EdwardDMorrow]

Hallelujah! Death is defeated because Jesus is alive! Happy Easter!

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Britain is a Christian country.

The Conservative Party will always celebrate our Christian heritage with deeds, not just words.

This Easter, we want to ensure local churches are properly maintained and repaired so we’re announcing a plan to restore funding for the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme which the government has recently placed caps on.

Churches matter. They aren’t just important places of worship, in many towns and villages they are the centre of the community and the pride of local people, often steeped in hundreds of years of history. It is critical we maintain them properly, because when they’re gone, this history and heritage could be lost forever.

@Conservatives believe we have a responsibility to protect our churches and make sure they endure for future generations.  What are we for if not to conserve the very best of our country and our society for those yet to come?

Conservatives will protect our heritage and build a stronger country.

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

The Palm Sunday massacre of Christians last night in Nigeria should be front page news everywhere this morning — but it isn’t.

Why? Because the media DOES NOT CARE about the plight of African Christians.

I am here today in Nigeria to share the truth.

[Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC @BishopDewar]

Your words are gravely misdirected.

You set Christ against the public order, as though His Gospel were fit only for the margins and not for the shaping of a nation. That is a profound error. The same Christ who walked among the lowly is King of kings, and His truth does not cease at the church door. It judges nations as surely as it saves souls.

You speak of a state that “privileges one faith,” yet you benefit daily from a civilisation formed by that very faith. The language of equality, dignity, and conscience that you invoke is not the fruit of secularism. It is the inheritance of Christianity. To sever the fruit from the tree is not liberation. It is slow decay.

What you propose is not freedom of religion, but freedom from Christianity in the public square. That is not neutrality. It is displacement. Secularism does not stand above belief. It is itself a belief, and when enthroned, it proves no less dogmatic, only less honest about its authority.

Christ did not seek power as the world seeks it. But neither did He concede the world to falsehood. He claimed all authority in heaven and on earth. The question is not whether truth shall shape public life, but which truth.

A state that forgets the faith that formed it does not become fairer. It becomes forgetful of why justice matters at all.

You are right that the Church must be present among many. I know that @PhilHs10 would agree with me that presence without conviction, witness without authority, and faith stripped of its public claim is not humility. It is surrender.

The Gospel is not honoured by being confined. It is honoured when it is proclaimed, without apology, to every sphere of life, including the life of a nation.

[Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan]

Share if you want to keep Britain Christian ✝️🇬🇧

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

This is cynical virtue signalling. You have supported two and a half years of hate marches on London streets chanting for the mass murder of Jews. You have never once called out this incitement, demonisation and lies against Israel and Zionists. The city you run is no longer a safe space for Jews. Own it.

[Doctore Mindstate 🜋 @DoctoreMind]

"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you"

Matthew 6:16-18

The issue is the heart: If telling someone stems from a desire for sympathy, praise, or appearing spiritual (e.g., posting about it online), it violates the principle. If the motive is pure and necessary, many interpreters see room for discretion without broadcasting it broadly.

[Revd Canon Fr Phil Harris† 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 @PhilHs10]

@Keir_Starmer, you will not answer a question, will you? Then you spout this nonsense.

The Adhān is not just a call to prayer; it’s a declaration of spiritual authority over the space where it is proclaimed. In Islamic tradition, the public recitation of the Adhān signals that the area is under Islamic rule. It’s a proclamation of God’s greatness and the call to submit to His will as revealed in Islam.

From a theological and cultural perspective, this act is seen as a form of spiritual marking or staking a claim. It’s about establishing an Islamic presence and inviting the community to align under that spiritual authority.

This makes the Adhān not just a call to individual devotion but a public declaration of faith that can be seen as transforming the environment into a place of Islamic worship and identity.

Understanding this dynamic is crucial, especially when considering interfaith interactions or the impact of such public religious expressions in diverse communities.

Let me remind you of the words, Prime Minister:

“Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest

I bear witness that there is no god but Allah
I bear witness that there is no god but Allah

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah

Come to prayer, come to prayer

Come to success, come to success

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest

There is no god but Allah”

Islam gives NO SPACE for other faiths. This is the beginning of the subjugation, and the mayor knows exactly what he is doing.

[Dr. David Wood @Acts17David]

@tariqtramboo No it doesn't. The Quran and the Hadith allow grown men to have sex with prepubescent girls. But sharia DOES have a death penalty for apostates, critics, polytheists, Jews and Christians who refuse to pay jizyah, etc. Now go try lying to someone else.

[Ibrahim S. Amin @Ibrahim_S_Amin]

The Quran mixes up the Exodus and Purim stories, and depicts Haman as working for Pharaoh. Those stories are supposed to be set many centuries apart, but Mohammed apparently didn't know that and hence refuted Islam itself by making that error in its supposedly infallible book.

[Bob of Speakers Corner @btbsoco]

The Trinity is not in the Bible and makes no sense; three cannot be one and one three. You Christians believe in three gods, if you say Father, Son and Holy Spirit are each god.

So goes the charge and now the response!

All of these kinds of objections are absurd. Firstly, the fact that a word appears or does not appear in a text, in no way has bearing upon whether the concept it represents is taught by the text. The word Tawhid, does not appear in the Quran, but would Muslims then suggest that concept of Allah’s uniqueness is not taught in the Quran? Therefore the presence of a word is not the arbiter of whether the concept is taught; words are often created retrospectively to encapsulate a concept.

Muslims repeat in their own circles the idea that the concept of the Trinity is not in the Holy Scriptures, yet the idea that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all divine and that there is only one GOD, is a strongly evidenced teaching of scripture.

•Exodus 20: 1 – 6 teaches that even if there are a myriad of other gods, we as Christians – should only worship the GOD of Israel.

•Deuteronomy 6:4 teaches that this GOD is one within himself, his nature is a unique and singular species, of a unique category; and that there is but one example of it.

•Isaiah 43: 10, 44: 6 Teaches, that there are no other gods and that the GOD of Israel is the only GOD that exists.

•John 17:3 – affirms that the Father is that God Israel identified in the Old Testament

•Titus 2: 13 – 14 affirms that the Son is that GOD of Israel (see other passages in this book showing Christs divinity)

•Acts 5: 1 – 4 affirms that the Holy Spirit is that GOD of Israel believed upon by Israel

•Mathew 28: 18 – 20 – demonstrates that they are all to be worshipped as one and at the same time in the rite of Baptism - the entry rite of the New Covenant.

•That the Father, Son and Holy Spirit can not be the same person; as they speak to one another, request of one another, testify to one another, send one another, bring glory to one another, come in the name of one another, and are present to others distinct from one another is seen by a careful reading of the chapters of John 14 – 16.

This of course is not all that there is to say about the Trinity, but we are not seeking to propose a treatise explaining every point of the Trinity, but simply to show that the idea most certainly is present to scripture.

The idea that three cannot be one and one cannot be three is a ridiculous objection – Muslims only repeat this mantra, in debate and discussion, because it’s a response learned by rote. It’s not actually a thought-out position. Simply repeating things like a mantra does not make it true. We know Muslims are repeating this unthinkingly, because they accept plurality and unity in all kinds of ways in all kinds of situations. For instance:

Examples of singularity and plurality at the same time:

•3 Dimensional space
•Triple point of water (go on YouTube and look up the triple point of water)
•Water from a single fountain in three cups
•Infinity + Infinity + infinity = infinity
•The three angles of a Triangle

The sad quip that ‘1 + 1 + 1 = 3 not 1’; is a sad and tired part of Islamic discourse about the Trinity Firstly, the problem is that those the make the argument are bad at mathematical analogies. When we count the persons of the Trinity, we are not counting them in the same way twice when we count the essence, we are counting the what of the persons; and when we count the person we count the who; this entails no logical contradiction. So – if you asked us – how many persons; we would say, 1 + 1 + 1 = 3; we do not say one here. If you asked us, how many natures we would simply say one, with no additions. Therefore, the closest mathematical analogy we have to the trinity would be: 1 x 1 x 1 = 1.

The analogies of plurality and singularity are not limited to the number three either; there are many such examples using all kinds of combinations of numbers: one human body is a multitude of cells; and an instantiation of a species is an individual example of the whole. Multiplicity and diversity are everywhere, including in all forms of mainstream Islam. When Muslims speak of the attributes of Allah as being not the same as Allah, but also not separate from Allah, they acknowledge this multiplicity and diversity. If Muslims can accept these things, they have no logical grounds to object to the idea of multiplicity and singularity within the Godhead. These are but analogies though and should not be confused as explanations of the trinity, but rather, examples of plurality and unity; the divine nature for instance is not instantiated; it merely is none accidentally.

Christians believe that The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, while being co relational to one another and thus distinct from one another, have, at the same moment, without partition, the exact same essence/substance. The ‘thing’ that makes divinity to be divine, i.e. that ‘something’ that we (all created things) are not, is identically and simultaneously possessed by all persons of the Trinity. This substance is properly of the Father. The Son, as begotten of Father, also possesses it, and the Spirit that proceeds from Father, possess it as well. The nature is of the Father, is said to be the origin, and thus the Son and Holy Spirit are like rivers flowing from the same fountain. All are of the same thing in what they are, but you can distinctively count them. The divinity is all the same, that is the divinity of the Father, but the Son and Holy Spirit are different persons to the Father.

If Muslims want to press their attack on the grounds of rational argument, then they open themselves up to the same kind of questions:

•If Allah is a monad, a singularity without plurality, why does he have 99 attributes? Are not these attributes all divine, and dependent on Allah to exist? Could his attributes exist separately from him? Do they not exist eternally with Allah, but can not in and of themselves exist independently of Allah?

•If Allah is a monad, a singularity without plurality, how can he be described with body parts? Does Allah’s one foot, two right hands, eyes, face and shin not exist eternally? And because of Allah’s existence, are they also not divine?

•If Allah is a monad, a truly unique singularity without plurality, how can we speak of him at all in any meaningful way? I mean by this, if you can say you affirm that Allah has two right hands but you say his hands are not like anything we can think of or imagine by the word ‘hand’, then exactly what has been communicated of himself by Allah using the word ‘hand’? The word is devoid of meaning, and a word without meaning is just a sound.

If all the texts of Islam suggest that there is – plurality within Allah, what is the problem with the same being true of Christianity? The fact we simply have more levels of multiplicity within the divine, is not an objection, as each of the Persons has unique attributes not shared by the other Persons. Only the Son is begotten, only the Spirit is breathed, only the Father is the cause. If Muslims are allowed multiplicity in their concept of the divine, then the argument against Christians having it is over.

Conclusion: the Christian view of GOD is far more rational and consistent than the Islamic view. Our theology of GOD is clearly found in our Scriptures. In Islamic theology, however, what the scholars say contradicts what their texts say about GOD.

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

Christians are the most persecuted group in the world. The UK government is passing a law to prevent criticism of those doing the majority of the persecuting.

[Aaron Edwards @aaron_p_edwards]

Britain is a Christian country. But if the people of Britain don't start acting like it, it will soon become an Islamic country.

Semi-skimmed decaf Christianity won't cut it anymore. It never did.

It must be the real thing. Full-fat faith. All in. Dropped nets. Dead to sin. Alive to Christ. Obeying His Word. Living it out both privately and publicly.

That's how great nations like Britain were forged, because we weren't scared to live out our foundational beliefs out-loud and to encourage others to follow our lead.

Functionally agnostic "I'm-not-your-every-week-sort-of-Churchgoer" slop will not ultimately restore Britain, at least not if we are serious about returning to the foundations that once made our nation great.

The Britain of our forefathers was built by those who, if presented with Jesus' famous question to Peter, “But who do you say that I am?” could have replied as Peter did, without equivocation: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matt. 16:15-16).

Like Peter, you may stumble, you may face moments of trial and temptation and failure, but the question is, fellow patriots, do you believe Jesus is the Christ? Is he the Son of the living God? Is He the Lord, who came from heaven, died for your sins, and rose on the third day and ascended to the life everlasting, defeating death forever for those who believe in His name?

If not, then you and the nation you love, are in grave danger. But if so, then there is great hope indeed, and you must shout it from the rooftops and let your life and the lives of your fellow patriots reflect this hope all the way up and all the way down.

If a critical mass of British people do this, if we really live as a Christian country which embodies Christian virtue, law, and culture as an outworking of genuine Christian faith, then I have no doubt that we will make this country exceedingly great again.