And isn't it interesting, he's seeing this firsthand. Why aren't we listening to him? He is right there talking about this. And he is right there as this is happening. And he's seeing it but he doesn't say anything because he's under their authority.
He waits till he retires and goes down to Jerusalem himself to a monastery outside of Jerusalem. And in 730. So we're now well into the 8th century. We're a hundred years after Muhammad, if Muhammad existed, would have died, right? By this time Islam should be all over the place. Everybody should be calling themselves Muslim. There is no reference to anybody called Muslim, even in 730, or a religion called Islam.
So we're well a hundred years later and there's still no religion called Islam. But there is a prophet who gets his material from an Arian monk. What's Arian? What is Arianism?
Host: It’s anti-trinitarianism.
Smith: So he is saying you have put together this prophet, you Ishmaelites, you finally have your prophet, and he is an Arian who doesn't believe in the Trinity, and you Abdul Malik, that's why you're writing all these inscriptions against Jesus's divinity, against the Trinity, against his Sonship. And he talks about this prophet. And his name is Mamed. He even writes it there in Greek. Mamed in English because Greek does have vowels. Arabic doesn't have any vowels at this time but Greek does.
So though he is talking about the Arabic Mamed that's on the inscriptions with no vowels, he is saying now how it's pronounced. And what's the title of his book? The Heresy of the Ishmaelites. Bingo. There it is. Just read the title.
So in 730, good old John of Damascus is basically giving us a window into exactly what's going on. This is a new heresy. It's a Christian heresy. It's an anti-trinitarian heresy. It's an Arian heresy. Which is not surprising. It raised its head among the Ebionites in the 2nd century. Arianism raised its head among Arius the Elder in the church in the 4th century. Why are we surprised it doesn't raise its head again in the 7th century? It's still here today. Who do you think the Jehovah's witnesses are?
Now, you might say this is still not Islam, though. This is an anti-trinitarian attack against the trinitarians. But this is no longer an Elder doing it. This is now the Caliph, who controls all that swathe of land from Spain all the way to India and from Turkey all the way down to Yemen." - An excerpt from the interview below.
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Video Title: Why the Foundations of Islam Are Now Crumbling with Dr. Jay Smith. Source: Cross Examined. Date Published: July 22, 2025.