Jay Smith

Dr Jay (Joseph) Smith is a noted evangelist and apologist spearheading the Historical Criticism of Islam to Muslims through his YouTube channels PfanderFilms. and The Jay Show. Dr Smith's key emphasis is the use of Polemics with Muslims over traditional Christian Apologetics. 
Jay has a Phd from Melbourne School of Theology. in Apologetics and Polemics, completed in 2017. He has Masters degrees in Apologetics from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Now Palmer Theological Seminary), and in Islamic studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Jay is an expert in Christian-Muslim Apologetics, having worked with Muslims, beginning 1981 in Senegal, Africa, as a missionary. In 1992 he began developing his unique polemically based evangelistic ministry leading dozens of Christians to the Speakers Corner in Hyde Park in London, where they met with hundreds of Muslims face to face, to make friends, answer tough questions, debate the latest research and ideas, and shared their faith. Dr Smith formerly headed Hyde Park Christian Fellowship.
Dr Smith now lives in the United States while traveling the world in teaching, researching, and explaining the historical foundations of Islam. Recent discoveries in textual criticism and archaeology has lead Dr Smith to be the spokesman for a team of scholars who are researching Islam and the Quran. Some of these colleagues must remain anonymous due to the highly charged nature of their work. Dr Smith has become their aggregator and spokesman using PfanderFilms for disseminating this information as well as on-line and in person debates with both Christian and Islamic scholars. Some of his videos have reached over 500k viewers.
Textual work has presented Islam with a controversy over the validity of its claim "The Quran is exactly the same today as that handed down by Allah to Muhammed". Jay and his associates have amassed over forty versions of the Quran with thousands of textual variants (and counting) .Archaeological research led to Dan Gibson's books Qur'anic Geography and Early Islamic Qibla with exhaustive on-site research that details the exact coordinates of Qibla's pointing, (the part of a Mosque pointing toward Mecca) which questions the Islamic claims of "they all point to Mecca". This exposure brought recent and ongoing research on existing 7th and 8th century coins of the region. Coins are a strong indicator of the political control of a region, and to date, no 7th or 8th century Caliphate coins have been found. All of the above has fractured long-held Islamic doctrines of the existence of Muhammed as a man, a historical Mecca, and provenance of the Quran, igniting an internal debate in all quarters of Islam.
Jay Smith grew up in Delhi and Mussoorie, India, where his parents, Joe (Joseph) and Marietta, were missionaries who created a nascent outpost of Dr Francis Shaeffer's L'Abri Fellowship outreach for transient "seeker" hippies of the late 60's-70's. Jay was exposed to the teachings of such visiting notables as Francis and Edith Shaeffer, Dr.John Stott, Os Guinness, and others as the Smith's ministered to Hindus, Muslims, and especially hippies. This gave a deep grounding to Jay and the basis for his scholarly approach. Jay also attended Messiah College, and Evangelical Seminary, both in Pennsylvania. At one point Smith entered the United States Marine Corp and completed his Officer Training Course as #2 in the class and dropped the night before commissioning, as he realized he was called elsewhere. All the above provided what was later required at Speaker's Corner and the ability to execute the polemical style of his ministry.
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*Information provided by Ray L Bailey, M-Div, colleague, author, and college roommate www.Ray's-Sandbox.net
== External links ==
Articles:
* Unapologetic Apologist: Jay Smith confronts Muslim fundamentalists with fundamentalist fervor, ChristianityToday
* Muslim Responses to Jay Smith's Papers, Answering Islam
Blogs:
* Answering Muslims ~The Islamoblog of Acts 17 Apologetics Ministries, Articles on Jay Smith.
Other:
* The muslim-christian debate website, The official website of Hyde Park Christian Fellowship.
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