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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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Serpent crusher

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:15

The Saviour will defeat Satan (head crushed) through suffering (heal bruised)

Was the Bible distorted?

Have ye any hope that they will be true to you when a party of them used to listen to the word of Allah, then used to change it, after they had understood it, knowingly?

Quran 2.75

The Quran claims the Jews distorted the 'word.' Some today say this refers to the written Torah, but the Arabic used here is 'kaleem [word] of Allah' as opposed to tawrat (the Arabic word for Torah, as used in other passages like Quran 3.93 and Quran 5.43). Such a claim is hardly controversial – to acknowledge that many have distorted God's words in their own distinct teaching or writings. Many groups, such as the gnostics, have been guilty of this, yet they have not succeeded in distorting the words of the Bible itself.

OT speaks of Christ

He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Luke 24:44

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

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

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

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