Christianity Compared with Islam
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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,
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.”
the Wrong Mary
O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.
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
Quran: Jesus no more than a messenger
The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him. And his mother was a saintly woman. And they both used to eat (earthly) food. See how We make the revelations clear for them, and see how they are turned away!
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.
Before Abraham was born
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”
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)
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."
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.
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?
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.
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