I debunked a Christian ✝
I’m a Muslim, and I was chatting with a Protestant Christian. I can’t say I “debunked Christianity” overall, but I’m confident I at least refuted the specific point he brought up:
“Islam claims to be monotheistic, yet you worship the Kaaba 🕋 in Mecca, which is rooted in Arab paganism.”
I told him:
I’ll use the Bible’s own logic to show that Muslims are monotheistic.
Many Protestants in the USA, when they want to worship God in an “official” way, go to a church, sit on pews, and pray in front of a cross or a statue of Jesus. But this style of worship is not described in the Bible. In the Bible, people worshipped by standing, kneeling, and prostrating with their forehead on the ground , and sometimes they prayed facing a direction (toward the Temple in Jerusalem). If you walk into any mosque, Muslims worship exactly like this.
In fact, the Bible clearly condemns making an idol or carved image and then performing worship acts in front of it (Exodus 20:4–5, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:15–19, Deuteronomy 5:8–9).
Those verses do not add exceptions like: “unless it’s a cross,” or “unless it’s a statue of my son that will come later,” or “unless you’re not really meaning to worship the object itself but you mean me.” The commands are very direct. This is why the holiest people in the Bible didn’t pray the way you do. There is no verse where God (or Jesus/the apostles) commands Christians to put a physical cross in a church and pray facing it.
Now, regarding the Kaaba 🕋
Muslims do not worship it. We face its direction in prayer , and that idea is completely biblical. Biblical figures prayed facing the Temple in Jerusalem. For example:
Daniel 6:10 (KJV)
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Solomon describes praying toward the Temple
1 Kings 8:29 (KJV)
“That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.”
Does that mean they were worshipping the temple itself ? No.
Similarly, Muslims originally prayed toward the Temple in Jerusalem, but then God changed the direction to the Kaaba as a test of faith (this story is in the Qur’an 2:142–144). So we are not “worshipping the Kaaba.” We are worshipping God while facing a commanded direction, which is very biblical. If praying while facing a direction makes someone pagan, then the Bible would also be condemning its own prophets.
That’s why if you enter a mosque anywhere in the world, you won’t find an idol or a “mini Kaaba” that people pray in front of. People simply line up and pray toward the direction of the Kaaba.
Someone might argue: “But the Kaaba used to be a pagan site before Islam.”
Our belief is different. We believe the Kaaba was originally a place of monotheistic worship, then later became associated with paganism, and then was restored to monotheistic worship through Islam. That is not a strange idea. The Bible itself describes periods when the Temple in Jerusalem was corrupted by idolatry and later purified again, like when King Manasseh put pagan worship inside the Temple (2 Kings 21:4) and times were it was cleansed from paganism (2 Chronicles 29:5).
Someone might argue: “Okay, then why do Muslims go around it in circles during pilgrimage?”
Again, not because we worship it, but because God commanded it. Muslims circumambulate the Kaaba seven times on pilgrimage.
And again, the Bible contains a similar concept. God commanded the Israelites to go around Jericho seven times. That does not mean they were worshipping the city. It was simply obedience to a command from God.
They did it because God said so.
Simple as that.
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Note 1: i don’t believe in the Bible , I only used the Bible against him because he’s a Christian. It would have been illogical for me to use the Qur’an against him when he doesn’t believe in it.
Note 2: I have written the refutation in a very respectable manner and I expect the comments to be respectful. Any hate speech will be deleted.
“Islam claims to be monotheistic, yet you worship the Kaaba 🕋 in Mecca, which is rooted in Arab paganism.”
I told him:
I’ll use the Bible’s own logic to show that Muslims are monotheistic.
Many Protestants in the USA, when they want to worship God in an “official” way, go to a church, sit on pews, and pray in front of a cross or a statue of Jesus. But this style of worship is not described in the Bible. In the Bible, people worshipped by standing, kneeling, and prostrating with their forehead on the ground , and sometimes they prayed facing a direction (toward the Temple in Jerusalem). If you walk into any mosque, Muslims worship exactly like this.
In fact, the Bible clearly condemns making an idol or carved image and then performing worship acts in front of it (Exodus 20:4–5, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:15–19, Deuteronomy 5:8–9).
Those verses do not add exceptions like: “unless it’s a cross,” or “unless it’s a statue of my son that will come later,” or “unless you’re not really meaning to worship the object itself but you mean me.” The commands are very direct. This is why the holiest people in the Bible didn’t pray the way you do. There is no verse where God (or Jesus/the apostles) commands Christians to put a physical cross in a church and pray facing it.
Now, regarding the Kaaba 🕋
Muslims do not worship it. We face its direction in prayer , and that idea is completely biblical. Biblical figures prayed facing the Temple in Jerusalem. For example:
Daniel 6:10 (KJV)
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Solomon describes praying toward the Temple
1 Kings 8:29 (KJV)
“That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.”
Does that mean they were worshipping the temple itself ? No.
Similarly, Muslims originally prayed toward the Temple in Jerusalem, but then God changed the direction to the Kaaba as a test of faith (this story is in the Qur’an 2:142–144). So we are not “worshipping the Kaaba.” We are worshipping God while facing a commanded direction, which is very biblical. If praying while facing a direction makes someone pagan, then the Bible would also be condemning its own prophets.
That’s why if you enter a mosque anywhere in the world, you won’t find an idol or a “mini Kaaba” that people pray in front of. People simply line up and pray toward the direction of the Kaaba.
Someone might argue: “But the Kaaba used to be a pagan site before Islam.”
Our belief is different. We believe the Kaaba was originally a place of monotheistic worship, then later became associated with paganism, and then was restored to monotheistic worship through Islam. That is not a strange idea. The Bible itself describes periods when the Temple in Jerusalem was corrupted by idolatry and later purified again, like when King Manasseh put pagan worship inside the Temple (2 Kings 21:4) and times were it was cleansed from paganism (2 Chronicles 29:5).
Someone might argue: “Okay, then why do Muslims go around it in circles during pilgrimage?”
Again, not because we worship it, but because God commanded it. Muslims circumambulate the Kaaba seven times on pilgrimage.
And again, the Bible contains a similar concept. God commanded the Israelites to go around Jericho seven times. That does not mean they were worshipping the city. It was simply obedience to a command from God.
They did it because God said so.
Simple as that.
——
Note 1: i don’t believe in the Bible , I only used the Bible against him because he’s a Christian. It would have been illogical for me to use the Qur’an against him when he doesn’t believe in it.
Note 2: I have written the refutation in a very respectable manner and I expect the comments to be respectful. Any hate speech will be deleted.
