Posted on 04/14/2025 2:30:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
That’s from the false gospel of Barnabas, rather than the Koran.
It is the argument that Muslims use to explain why Christ was not crucified.
In the gospels, Jesus announces that he is Messiah. Jesus proclaims himself, the I am, a name for God. Jesus proclaims that He and the Father God are one. Jesus proclaims that 'he who sees me, sees the Father (God).
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” - Gospel of Matthew
Islam is the spirit of anti-Christ. Like any anti-Christ group, they reject the gospels or claim they are not an accurate protrayal of Jesus.
"Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son." - 1 John 2:22
I’m aware of that. It just doesn’t come from any of the writings they insist are authoritative, whether Koran or Hadith.
Yes, they aren’t drawing from the Bible for their conclusion. Human reasoning.
One of my responses to them is citing the verse from the Quran, where Muhammad affirms the Bible. So what the Bible says, goes.
Dr. David Wood calls that the “Islamic Dilemma”.
The Koran affirms the authority of the Bible as it was back then and as we have it now—and yet the Koran is antithetical to the Bible on just about every point of doctrine, so the Mahometan scholars and clerics have to claim that the very Bible that the Koran affirms has been “corrupted” without any evidence to back that up.
Therefore, if the Bible is true, then obviously the Koran is false—but if the Bible is false, then the Koran is also false.
Also, they can’t claim the Bible was corrupted later on because the only Bible we have in its final form was finalized at the Council of Nicaea, 350 years before the arrival of Islam.
Indeed; it’d be the same Bible that was present in both Mecca and Medina.
Islam was founded by a person, Mohammed who was a fictional character.
Islam was founded by a person, Mohammed who was a fictional character.
Yes. And Islam's specific teaching on Jesus completely fatally discredits itself. They teach that Jesus was a human prophet and a good teacher, but nothing more. However, Jesus describes himself as The Messiah; stating, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and nobody comes to the Father except through Me." If Islam's take on Jesus is accurate, then Jesus is the absolute worse false prophet, but they declare Jesus as a good prophet. Like C.S. Lewis said, Jesus is either Lunatic, Liar, or Lord. Thus, Islam is a false religion.
Islam is essentially a mirror image of Christianity - like the Star Trek episode where they met their evil twins. It’s almost as if, Satan having been defeated at the resurrection, countered with his own religion to sow confusion and hatred.
The whole piece is written poorly.
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