Saturday, September 30, 2017

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

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 was not recorded on stone or bone, as was the case with many ancient writings, but very accurately and carefully on papyrus and parchment scrolls. When these scrolls became old, new ones were prepared, as was the case with important Greek and Romans writings. It is clear that no part of the Gospel was lost, nor was a new text inserted in place of the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891Yo4B_k80

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