My Muslim friend, The Historical Reliability of the Gospel, part Two

The word Injil ("Gospel") is an Arabic translation of the Greek word Evangelion which means "happy message" or "good news," for it proclaims to all the absolute love of God towards sinners through the atoning death of Christ on their behalf; whoever truly believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

Before addressing the belief that the Gospel of the Christians has been abrogated, we would say that anyone can accuse someone with whatever accusation he likes-but if there is no convincing evidence to back the accusation, it becomes null and void. Thus, those who say that the Gospel has been abrogated are obliged to mention:

• The original state of the verses abrogated
• The names of those who abrogated the Gospel, the time of abrogation and the purpose behind it.
• How the Gospel managed to be abrogated when, by the second century, thousands of Gospel texts had already spread to different countries in several languages.
• The method the abrogators used to cover up the alleged abrogation, which only the opponents of Christianity supposedly discovered and that hundreds of years after the alleged abrogation had taken place.

Since the opponents did not support their accusation with evidence, their accusation is baseless and ineffective. Nevertheless, we have examined the accusation from different perspectives, coming to the conclusion that the Gospel is free from any abrogation:

The Gospel had spread in writing, without any revision, among the contemporaries of the Christ and by the second century was translated into several languages:

• After having spread orally throughout many countries in the East and West by the middle of the first century, the Gospel was then written down by people who knew everything about Christ. It was written either in a detailed biography-as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did-or in the form of an explanation of His principles and teachings as did Paul, Peter, James and others who wrote independent of one another. This proves that they were honest and that there was no conspiracy among them. Each one wrote apart from the other.
• The authors were so different from one another that it would have been impossible for them to agree on an issue unless it had already been an accepted fact for them all. Matthew was a keen accountant; Mark, an enthusiastic young man; Luke, a scrutinizing physician; John, a clear-thinking, self-controlled old man; Paul, a profound philosopher, Peter, a courage striver and James, a well-known expert. While Luke the physician was a highly educated and broadminded Greek, most of the others were strict Jews. None of the authors could have imaged that what he was writing would one day be the Christian Book passing from one generation to the next down the centuries and into all countries. Had they known, one of them might have inserted or deleted something from the biography and teachings of the Christ, in order to make the text more compatible with and appealing to humanistic tastes and tendencies. But their only aim was to record the biography and teachings of the Christ honestly and plainly for the benefit of their contemporaries who had not yet heard about them.

In the second century, copies of the Gospel numbered in the thousands, appearing in several languages for the benefits of those who had adopted Christianity. According to the testimonies of Justin Martyr and Tertullian, the Gospel was recited during worship meetings and many believers from among the Jews and pagans memorized it contents. Since the Gospel was transmitted in thousands of copies and translated into several languages and because it had spread into different countries, being memorized by countless believers, it is impossible that it could have been falsified.

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