Do you believe this, Muslims?

This is dedicated to Muslims. In Surah 2:285 and Surah 4:136 notice that "His Books" is plural. This means not just the Qur'an but all the Holy Books. In Surah 2:136 please discern the important phrase "We make no difference between one and another of them. This is a clear command that Muslims should regard all Holy Books as equal.

Some Muslims may object saying: "How can the Messiah of God make wine and offer it to the people to drink? God has prohibited wine in the Torah, and the Qur'an repeated that prohibition in The Table 90 and The Cow 216, saying: "O believers, wine and arrowing-shuffling, idols and divining-arrows are an abomination, some of Satan's work; so avoid it; haply so you will prosper."

In the meantime, you find that the Qur'an is promising the believers not just one river but rivers of wine as a delight to the drinkers. The Qur'an says: "This is the similitude of Paradise which the God-fearing have been promised; therein are rivers of water unsealing, rivers of milk unchanging in flavor and rivers of wine - a delight to the drinkers. (Mohammed 15; Man ; The Stinters 25). 

Here we see curiosity peaks and many questions are being raised: "how did the Qur'an prohibit the wine here on earth but make it available to Paradise inhabitants in enormous quantities, flowing as rivers to drink without end? Does the Qur'an mean that God prohibits wine here on earth but He allows it to the Paradise inhabitants so that they can get drunk in heaven?" 

The answer is very clear. The Holy God who prohibits wine and drunkenness on earth, does not allow, in His pure heaven, drunkenness or any agent that causes drunkenness. If wine were found in heaven, it will be that good wine that by nature has nothing to do with drunkenness.

In this chapter, not performing a divine miracle to offer the people the wine that can cause them to lose their memory, their balance, their faculties and their self-respect...but rather He made that other kind of wine that was a delight unto the drinkers who, once they sipped it, the influence of the earthly wine evaporated and their minds were made alert; consequently, they rose up asking about good wine that was a delight to the drinkers.

Read John 2:1-11

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine." "Woman, why do you involve me?"Jesus replied. "My hour has not yet come."  His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."  Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim.  Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet."They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."  What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

GIF Link: https://giphy.com/gifs/islam-W3UOXv1JsFs22qdP4m

Do you know!

 Objection: In Matthew 1:13 we read that Abihud is the son Zerubbalel. This is wrong because Zerubbabel had five sons, according to 1 Chronicles 3:19-20, and none of them is named Abihud.

Response: It was a Jewish custom for a person to be called by a variety of names. This custom is also practiced among the Arabs. This custom spread among the Jews in a special way during the time of the Captivity. A proof of this is what is mentioned in Daniel 1:6-7. 

In any case, we can say Matthew copied the genealogy from Zerubbabel to Christ from the records kept by the Jews. These records were kept in Jerusalem and were guarded with utmost care. After every battle, the priests would revise their genealogies to determine which of the priests' wives had been taken captive and which were not fit to be priests' wives any longer.

Josephus wrote that genealogies of the Jews existed for a period of 2,000 years and that they were preserved until the destruction of Jerusalem. Some of the princes in the captivity mentioned that their ancestry went back to David. Others demonstrated that their line went back to the prophet Samuel.

The Jews' zeal in preserving their ancestry was important to them, for they could thereby boast of their origins and preserve their rights in land claims and positions of service.

Josephus claimed that he himself had found his ancestry in public records kept by the Jews. This being the case, how much more then would the Jews have preserved the public records of their kings' genealogies. Had Matthew deviated from the Jewish records of their records of their kings, they would have opposed him. But none objected to his record, because he had recorded facts accepted by all. 

More about Islam click here: https://www.answering-islam.org/