In front of a crowd of 200 people from around the world, White, a Baptist and Trinitarian, argued that Jesus is a deity worthy of worship and used Biblical verses to support his claims.

"[Jesus] is God who has taken on human flesh ... He is worshipped with God," White said.

"Amen," a man from the crowd shouted.

"Jesus would not hesitate to be a servant of Allah," Abualrub countered. Some audience members laughed, while others nodded in approval.

"Trinity is not in the Bible. "Is there anything in the Old Testament about Jesus being son of God?" asked Abualrub, who is an author and translator of over 40 Islamic publications and founder of Medina Publishing Co.

"If he was, then all the prophets, from Adam to Abraham and Moses, would have told their followers that God had a son," Abualrub continued. "But they never did."

White, who is the director of Alpha Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Ariz., asked Muslims to put consider the issue from his perspective.

"If a man came to you 600 years after Muhammad and told you he is a prophet. He says he has no miracles, but only a book. He says he’s from the prophetic lineage, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Would you believe it?" he asked.

"What if he tells you the hijra (Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) pilgrimage from Mecca to Medina that Muslims used to establish their lunar calendar) never happened?" he said. "That’s what you’re telling Christians to do."

Abualrub, a resident of Hartford, Conn., used Qur’anic as well as Biblical verses as a foundation for his rebuttal and argued that the Bible’s scripture is not consistent with Christian doctrine.

"Jesus never said what you say," he said in reference to White’s use of certain Greek translations of the Bible to support his claims.

"Every single Greek word (White) read has been disputed by Christian scholars for 2,000 years," Abularub told the audience in response to White’s Greek translation. "It’s their dispute, not mine," he said.

White disagreed with the notion that the Bible was altered over time.

"All accusations of wholesale corruption are without merit historically," he said.

"The denials of a single man (the Prophet Muhammad, PBUH) without knowledge of the Bible half a millennium later cannot overthrow this testimony (of the disciples to Jesus’ deity)," he said.

"I didn’t like how (Dr. White) talked about our Prophet," Abdul-Kareem Sutton said after the debate. "I think he was way more sarcastic than he should have been," said Sutton, 43, an African American Muslim from Hartford, Conn.

"I love Muslims, but I have a huge problem with Islam," said Michael T., 30, a native Egyptian. "I hate Islam," he said to a Muslim attendee after the debate.

Samir Hanna, 48, a native Egyptian, accused Abualrub of "making light of weighty matters … All he did was throw mud in the air."

Pastor George Saieg, executive director of the ACP, is inviting Muslim scholars to debate Christians in the future.

The ACP is planning eight more debates with Muslims in the future as a part of their campaign to lure Muslim Americans away from their faith.

ACP members often stand outside Islamic centers after Friday prayer and pass out literature.