I hope that you, my Muslim friend, will understand that the Bible is from God.
Surah 2:136 says,
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Objection: The generations in the second part of the three divisions mentioned by Matthew consist of 18 men, not 14, as is clear from 1 Chronicles 3:10-16. Also, Matthew 1:8 says that Joram begat Uzziah. This is wrong because Uzziah is the son of Ahaziah, son of Joash, son of Amaziah. These three are among the famous princes described in 2 Kings 8, 12, 14 and 2 Chronicles 22, 24 and 25. This a blatant error.
Response: Matthew omitted Uzziah, Joash and Amaziah, because Jehoram was of Ahaziah's line through Ahab, the pagan, whose wife was the notorious Jezebel. Thus, the deletion of those names was a punishment for Jehoram's guilty house to the fourth generation. God has said: "..I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those THAT HATE ME..." (Exodus 20:5)
We can assume that Matthew abbreviated the genealogy to make it easier to remember. Ezra dis thew same when he set out to prove that he was of Aaron's line; he dropped six generations from his list (compare Ezra 7:1-5 and 1 Chronicles 6:3-15). Ezra's purpose was brevity. Similarly, Muslims say that Muhammad was the son of Hashem, whereas he was the son of Abdullah son of Abd al-Muttalib b. Hashem. In the Hadith, Muhammad is recorded as having said, "I am the son of the two slain"-that is, of Abdullah and Ismael b. Ibrahim.
Matthew may also have ignored these names because one of them -Joash- was not buried in the Tombs of the Kings (2 Chronicles 24:25) and the other two murder were murdered. Also, their grandfather Jehoram was descended from Ahab the pagan.
It is our duty as intelligent beings to investigate those things of which we are ignorant, but our inquiry should be carried out in humility and awareness of our fallibility and weakness. We must not proudly make grandiose claims, deny inspiration and close our ears to the truth. God in His superior wisdom and holiness saw fit to delete these three kings from the list.
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Surah 2:136 says,
Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."
I do not believe in the Koran but you do. Surah 10:64 says,For them are good tidings in the worldly life and in the Hereafter. No change is there in the words of Allah . That is what is the great attainment.
Know also this Surah. Surah 5:47 says,And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.
2 Timothy 3:16-17All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Objection: The generations in the second part of the three divisions mentioned by Matthew consist of 18 men, not 14, as is clear from 1 Chronicles 3:10-16. Also, Matthew 1:8 says that Joram begat Uzziah. This is wrong because Uzziah is the son of Ahaziah, son of Joash, son of Amaziah. These three are among the famous princes described in 2 Kings 8, 12, 14 and 2 Chronicles 22, 24 and 25. This a blatant error.
Response: Matthew omitted Uzziah, Joash and Amaziah, because Jehoram was of Ahaziah's line through Ahab, the pagan, whose wife was the notorious Jezebel. Thus, the deletion of those names was a punishment for Jehoram's guilty house to the fourth generation. God has said: "..I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those THAT HATE ME..." (Exodus 20:5)
We can assume that Matthew abbreviated the genealogy to make it easier to remember. Ezra dis thew same when he set out to prove that he was of Aaron's line; he dropped six generations from his list (compare Ezra 7:1-5 and 1 Chronicles 6:3-15). Ezra's purpose was brevity. Similarly, Muslims say that Muhammad was the son of Hashem, whereas he was the son of Abdullah son of Abd al-Muttalib b. Hashem. In the Hadith, Muhammad is recorded as having said, "I am the son of the two slain"-that is, of Abdullah and Ismael b. Ibrahim.
Matthew may also have ignored these names because one of them -Joash- was not buried in the Tombs of the Kings (2 Chronicles 24:25) and the other two murder were murdered. Also, their grandfather Jehoram was descended from Ahab the pagan.
It is our duty as intelligent beings to investigate those things of which we are ignorant, but our inquiry should be carried out in humility and awareness of our fallibility and weakness. We must not proudly make grandiose claims, deny inspiration and close our ears to the truth. God in His superior wisdom and holiness saw fit to delete these three kings from the list.
Link for more information: https://www.answering-islam.org/
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