Markh
19th June 2006, 12:22 PM
What are your opinions of him? Do you know much about him? Is he popular among Coptic Christians?
copticorthodoxy
19th June 2006, 01:36 PM
What are your opinions of him? Do you know much about him? Is he popular among Coptic Christians?
some of the copts like him and others don't like his way , in my opinion it is good to have someone to debate the muslims but not in offensive way
minasoliman
20th June 2006, 11:17 PM
I saw Fr. Zakaria. I heard about his younger days, and how much tribulation he went through, and I admire his life as a confessor, one who suffers in the faith, especially against Islam. I also like some of the ways he intellectually debates against Islam's faults and Christianity's answers to them.
However, two things I don't like about him:
1. His sometimes offensive remarks against Islam is unacceptable. While I understand he went through a lot, it is simply enough to talk about the faults of Islam in an intellectual manner without unnecessary insults, which I hear some are extreme, or unnecessary biting sarcasm.
2. He seems to allow a certain Protestant-type evangelical-like type of lifestyle for preaching the truth. While I find nothing wrong with that, it lead many converts from Islam who used to be in the Orthodox Church leave to go to other denominations, or simply some to go directly into a non-Orthodox denomination. Such is an unacceptable behaviour, and I wish he can be clear that as a priest of the Orthodox Church, he does not consider other denominations as of the "one Catholic and Apostolic Church," and outside Her there is no sure way of salvation.
It should be understood that while it is correct that no one can go to the Father except through Christ, one must go through Christ by the correct faith, the rock of the Church, and this rock, there is only One, and One Church, and the gates of Hades cannot prevail against it.
God bless.
Mina
Markh
21st June 2006, 01:50 AM
It is interesting that you noticed that.
I was reading some of the links from his website, and noticed that they all go to websites providing a protestant response to Islam.... some of which see Catholicism and Orthodoxy as pagan cults!