Wednesday, October 4, 2017

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

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:

No one burned or disposed of the original scripts of the Gospel, as was the case with some ancient books when someone wanted to hide or conceal parts for personal reasons. Rather, these original scripts remained as they were and after the second century many copies were made from them; these still exist today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h80S9T8vOU 

Monday, October 2, 2017

The distinctives of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Qu'ran, part Four

According to the Qur'an, only Jesus, and in exception to all humans, spoke while in the Cradle (Mary 22-32). In other words, the Qur'an tells us that Christ needed no one to teach Him anything, not even how to speak and the Bible says this concern: "Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord or being his counselor hath taught him? .......who taught him in the path of judgement and taught him knowledge and shewed to him the way of Understanding?" (Isaiah 40:13-14)
Naturally, no one can teach the One who emanated from God and was called the Word of God.

http://answering-islam.org/