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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 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

Forgotten Surah of the Quran

Abu Harb b. Abu al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari sent for the reciters of Basra. They came to him and they were three hundred in number. They recited the Qur'an and he said: You are the best among the inhabitants of Basra, for you are the reciters among them. So continue to recite it. (But bear in mind) that your reciting for a long...

Muslim 1050

Quran: Jesus didn't die on the cross

And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.

Quran 4.157

According to most Muslims, Jesus didn't die on the cross

A constant need for forgiveness

Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Messenger saying." By Allah! I ask for forgiveness from Allah and turn to Him in repentance more than seventy times a day."

Bukhari 6307

This tradition from Sahih Bukhari tells us Muhammad asked for forgiveness more than 70 times a day. By contrast, both the Bible and the Sahihs acknowledge Jesus as uniquely sinless.

One God

Hear, Israel: the LORD is our God. The LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5

Scripture is abundantly clear that there is one and only one God. The three different persons of the Trinity are one not only in purpose and in agreement on what they think, but they are one in essence, one in their essential nature. In other words, God is only one being. There are not three Gods. There is only one God. (Grudem)

Letters of Paul are scripture

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

2 Peter 3:15-16

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

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