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Christianity Compared with Islam

Join us in an exploration of Christianity and Islam side-by-side to discover the truth.

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the Wrong Mary

O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.

Quran 19.28

Miriam is the sister of Aaron and Moses

All three are the children of Amran (Exodus 6:20)

In Luke the Father of Mary is not Amran, but Heli (Luke 3:23)

And she lived 1400 years after Aaron and Moses

'Permission to beat them'

Iyas ibn Abdullah ibn Abu Dhubab reported the Messenger of Allah as saying: Do not beat Allah's handmaidens, but when Umar came to the Messenger of Allah and said: Women have become emboldened towards their husbands, he (the Prophet) gave permission to beat them. Then many women came round the family of the Messenger of Allah complaining against their husbands. So the Messenger of Allah said: Many women have gone round...

AbuDawud 2141

Closer than our jugular - only by proxy

We verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

Quran 50.16

While the Quran says, "We are nearer to him than his jugular vein", the context from the next verse shows that his "nearness" is through the proxy of angels: "When the two Receivers receive (him), seated on the right hand and on the left" (Quran 50.17)

Jesus, the only way to the Father

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14:6

Jesus is the word

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

John 1:1-2

See also: Hebrews 1:1-2

Jesus' glory before the world began

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

John 17:5

The Quran confuses the Ka'aba

Allah hath appointed the Ka'bah, the Sacred House, a standard for mankind, and the Sacred Month and the offerings and the garlands. That is so that ye may know that Allah knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and that Allah is Knower of all things.

Quran 5.97

All assume that Abraham and Ishmael build it…

However, the historical record has Abraham in Canaan

Kissing the black stone was a Nabatean worship practice before Muhammad, and 600 miles further north

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