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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

Before Abraham was born

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

John 8:58

John 8:41 “Abraham did not want to kill me”

John 8:56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced at seeing my day”. Jesus could have used ‘Emen’ (past tense) ‘Before Abraham was, I was’, But he used ‘Eimi’ (present)

See also: Exodus 3:14

'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

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.

Written by the Spirit through human agency

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:16

An act of divine service

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:5-8

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

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