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The Quran declares of itself, "This volume is non to be doubted. It is a guide to the righteous."The Quran, regarded by Muslims as God'southward revelation through the prophet Mohammed, too declares that it confirms the the revelations given in the Bible. Imrams iii:ane states very plainly,
"HE HAS REVEALED TO YOU THE Book WITH THE TRUTH, CONFIRMING THE SCRIPTURES WHICH PRECEDED Information technology; FOR HE HAS ALREADY REVEALED THE TORAH AND THE GOSPEL FOR THE GUIDANCE OF Mankind, AND THE DISTINCTION Between RIGHT AND WRONG."
It is the intent of this brief, very abridged piece of work, to compare surah from the Quran with verses from the Bible to illustrate the vast differences that exist in the teachings between the two religions. It is necessary that you view the file "What Muslims Believe Nigh the Bible," in order to understand the comparisons below in their proper context. Muslims today do non believe the Gospels and Torah referred to in the Quran are the same that we take today. This comparison is meant for Christians who wish to larn more than about Islam and its variances with Christianity.
All quotes from the Quran are in CAPS. Utilise the content tabular array below to choose a topic or read though the entire document.
The following verses are taken from the Quran: "The Moo-cow."
2:39 "Go on YOUR COVENANT AND I Will BE TRUE TO MINE."
In this Quran passage, God's faithfulness is dependent upon the faithfulness of man to keep his side of the bargain. This is also unbiblical. Throughout the Old Testament, God is faithful to the promises He makes irregardless of human being's unfaithfulness. 2:39 does not depict a covenant, but a contract. God'due south covenant are always kept by Him fifty-fifty if they are not kept by homo. II Timothy 2:13 states, "If we are faithless, He remains true-blue; for He cannot deny Himself."
2:61 "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN GOD AND THE Concluding DAY AND DOES WHAT IS Correct, SHALL BE REWARDED Past THEIR LORD AND HAVE Nil TO FEAR OR REGRET."
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Salvation only comes through Jesus Christ and His atoning work on the cantankerous. This passage in the Quran fixes salvation on belief in "God," a "day" and "works." The Bible says in John 14:half dozen, "No 1 comes to the Begetter except through Me (Jesus);" and in Ephesians 2:8-9, "Y'all take been saved by grace through religion, it is a gift of God, and not as a result of works that no human can boast."
2:122 "Guard YOURSELVES AGAINST A DAY ON WHICH NO SOUL SHALL STAND FOR ANOTHER, WHEN NEITHER Bribe SHALL BE ACCEPTED FROM It, NOR INTERCESSION AVAIL It, NOR ANY Aid Exist GIVEN IT."
This passage seems to suggest that on the day of judgment, every human being must stand before God on his own. There will be no one that can accept his guilt for him, of plead to God for him. The Bible already teaches united states this is wrong. Jesus Christ took our place on the cross. Matthew 20:28 says, "Fifty-fifty equally the Son of human came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."
1Timothy two:half-dozen besides says, "Who gave himself a ransom for all, to exist testified in due time."
Romans 3:25 "Whom God hath set forth [to exist] a propitiation through faith in his blood."
2:135 "THEY SAY, 'ACCEPT THE JEWISH OR THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND Y'all SHALL BE RIGHTLY GUIDED.' SAY, 'BY NO Ways! We BELIEVE IN THE Organized religion OF ABRAHAM, THE UPRIGHT 1. HE WAS NO IDOLATER.'"
This passage teaches that Judaism and Christianity are something separate from what Abraham believed. In actuality, the Law (Judaism) is office of the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham. Christianity (Jesus Christ) the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham and He is also the fulfillment of the law. The writer to Hebrews noted to us that considering of this fulfillment, we accept "something better."
Romans 4 teaches the role of the Constabulary and of Jesus in fulfilling the hope to Abraham, every bit does Galatians 3:18 &19, "For if the inheritance [exist] of the law, [information technology is] no more than of promise: simply God gave [information technology] to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then [serveth] the police force? Information technology was added considering of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the hope was made."
Galatians iii:16 says, "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, equally of many; but every bit of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."
This Quranic passage too equates Judaism and Christianity as idolatry. Yet, if they are ii parts of the fulfillment of God'due south promise to Abraham, they cannot be idolatry. Ironically, Mohammad courted Jews and Christians in his early work. Only later on they rejected him, did he receive the "revelation" noted higher up.
ii:230 "WHEN A Homo DIVORCES HIS WIFE, HE CANNOT REMARRY HER UNTIL SHE HAS WEDDED Another MAN AND IS DIVORCED By HIM." [Become TO CONTENT TABLE]
This Quranic passage is in much the same way as the Former Testament Law, except that it is reverse to the Law God gave. Deuteronomy 24:i-four stated quite clearly, "When a homo hath taken a married woman, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath constitute some uncleanness in her: then allow him write her a bill of divorcement, and requite [it] in her hand, and transport her out of his firm. And when she is departed out of his house, she may get and be another homo's [wife]. And [if] the latter married man detest her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter married man die, which took her [to be] his wife; HER Sometime HUSBAND, WHO SENT HER AWAY, MAY Not TAKE HER AGAIN TO Be HIS Wife, after that she is defiled."
It is of import to keep in listen nonetheless, that this was under the O.T. law. Under Jesus Christ, we are forgiven of all sin and we may brainstorm with a clean slate.
2:236 "It SHALL Be NO Crime FOR YOU TO DIVORCE YOUR WIVES BEFORE THE MARRIAGE IS CONSUMMATED OR THE DOWRY IS SETTLED."
Incorrect! Malachi 2:16, "I hate divorce." Joseph didn't feel that fashion about Mary when he "planned secretly to put her away," did he?
2:247 "THEIR PROPHET SAID TO THEM, 'GOD HAS APPOINTED SAUL TO BE YOUR Male monarch.' Only THEY REPLIED, 'SHOULD HE Exist GIVEN THE KINGSHIP, WHEN WE ARE MORE DESERVING OF IT THAN HE? Likewise, HE IS NOT RICH AT ALL.'"
The biblical business relationship in I Samuel 10 refutes this, but i clan of a tribe despised Saul. "...he (Saul) was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that [in that location is] none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God salvage the king."
2:267 "...TO GIVE ALMS TO THE POOR IN PRIVATE IS BETTER AND WILL Absolve FOR SOME OF YOUR SINS."
The scripture records that but the blood of Jesus Christ tin can absolve for our sins. Romans 5:11, "And not only [so], but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."
The post-obit verses are taken from the Quran: "The Imran's"
3:8 "SAY TO THE UNBELIEVERS Ñ You lot SHALL Exist OVERTHROWN AND DRIVEN INTO HELL, AND EVIL RESTING Identify."
This poetry is partly true. Those who are "unbelievers" "will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven" as the Apostle Paul said. Withal, the spirit of what is said is not within the character of God's previous revelations.
Numerous passages in the Bible encourage the prophet to speak to unbelievers a message of repentance leading to forgiveness and eternal life Ñ not ane of destruction. Destruction is only used as a warning to motivate, fifty-fifty if out of fearfulness, repentance.
Jonah preached at God's control so that the people would repent. Jonah did not want them to apologize, God did. This passage in the Quran is representative of man's ways, not God's.
3:xv "SHALL I TELL YOU OF BETTER THINGS THAN THESE, WITH WHICH THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE REWARDED BY THEIR LORD? At that place'S SHALL Exist GARDENS WATERED Past RUNNING STREAMS, WHERE THEY SHALL DWELL FOREVER, SPOUSES OF PERFECT Guiltlessness, AND GRACE FROM GOD." [Get TO CONTENT Table]
Jesus said in Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither ally, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." In other words, women are accorded as servants in Heaven, men are who they serve.
three:19 "THE Just TRUE Religion IN GOD'S SIGHT IS ISLAM."
Nowhere does the Bible say that the but "truthful organized religion" is whatsoever religious system Ñ not even Judiasm or Christianity. The just way to Sky, to eternal life, every bit noted earlier, is by personal faith in the person of Jesus Christ Ñ not a organization, or church, or set of teachings.
3:29 "SAY, 'OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE.' IF THEY GIVE NO HEED, And so TRULY, GOD DOES NOT Dearest THE UNBELIEVERS." [Go TO CONTENT TABLE]
In the Quran, the love of God for a person is dependent upon whether or non a person obeys God. In the Bible, God loves both the believer and the unbeliever, the obedient and the rebellious. He rewards the obedient, and tries to depict the rebellious to Him.
God does not hate unbelievers: Luke 6:35 "Just honey your enemies, and. . .you shall exist like your Male parent in Heaven: for He is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil."
Being similar God involves loving our enemies, because He loves His enemies, and doing adept to the evil, considering He does good to the evil."
iii:89 "Y'all SHALL NEVER BE TRULY RIGHTEOUS UNTIL You lot GIVE IN ALMS WHAT YOU TRULY CHERISH."
Again, righteousness in the Quran is based upon works. While giving is enjoined in the Bible every bit a bang-up work, it has nothing to do with being truly righteous. True righteousness is based solely upon the blood of Jesus Christ which washes abroad our sins:
Romans three:22 "Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe."
Romans 3:10 "As information technology is written, There is none righteous, no, not one..."
three:118 "BELIEVERS, DO NOT MAKE FRIENDS WITH ANY BUT YOUR Own PEOPLE."
The Bible advocates the exact opposite of this practice. I Corinthians 5:ix & ten "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to visitor with fornicators: Withal not altogether with the fornicators of this world..." Paul wrote this because the Christians of his day were withdrawing themselves from friendships with unbelievers. If we followed this practice, then we could non share the truth with them.
Paul but says to withdraw from those who call themselves Christians, who name the name of Christ equally their own, but alive willfully in sin.
3:132 "VIE WITH EACH OTHER TO EARN THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR LORD AND A PARADISE AS VAST AS HEAVEN AND EARTH, PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS."
In the Quran, forgiveness is something to be earned, worked for. With Jesus, forgiveness is something granted freely considering God loves u.s.. Forgiveness can never be earned, information technology is a souvenir of God. Titus 3:5 says, "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, simply co-ordinate to his mercy he saved u.s.."
3:178 "LET NOT THE UNBELIEVERS Retrieve THAT Nosotros PROLONG THEIR DAYS FOR THEIR Own GOOD, WE Give THEM RESPITE Simply SO THAT THEY MAY COMMIT More than GRIEVOUS SINS. SHAMEFUL Punishment AWAITS THEM." [GO TO CONTENT TABLE]
This passage suggest that God allows unbelievers to have long lives then that they might commit more than sin that might be punished by God in a greater fashion. The Bible states that God does not grant life then that people might sin more, merely that they might have more than opportunity to exist shown mercy, respond to God's dearest and be granted eternal life.
Romans 2:4 "Do you lot despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; non knowing that the goodness of God leads you lot to repentance?"
2 Peter three:nine "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, every bit some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward the states, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
The following verses are taken from the Quran: "Women."
4:1 "IF You lot FEAR THAT YOU CANNOT TREAT ORPHANS WITH FAIRNESS, THEN YOU MAY MARRY OTHER WOMEN THAT SEEM Skillful TO YOU: TWO, THREE OR 4 OF THEM."
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This passage promotes multiple wedlock as a permissive rule. The Former and New Testament'south did not encourage multiple marriages. Jesus Himself gave God's preference in the matter in Mark 10:8 "And they 2 shall be 1 mankind: so and so they are no more than 2, but I flesh."
4:13 "BUT HE WILL NOT FORGIVE THOSE WHO DO EVIL AND, WHEN Death COMES TO THEM, SAY, 'Now WE Apologize!'" [Become TO CONTENT Table]
While this might seem to be a poetry that is just, and makes sense; information technology besides rubs confronting the testimony Jesus gave to the thief who died on the cross next to Jesus. The Bible records that two thieves were crucified with Jesus and that they both hurled insults at him while they all hung on the cross: (Mark 15:32 Allow Christ the Male monarch of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may meet and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.) Yet, the Bible records that one of these two men repented and changed His mind about Jesus.
Luke 23:42 & 43 "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To 24-hour interval shalt thou be with me in paradise."
This man did exactly what the Quran says will not exist forgiven and He was forgiven.
4:34 "Practiced WOMEN ARE OBEDIENT...AS FOR THOSE FROM WHOM Y'all Fright DISOBEDIENCE, Chide THEM AND Send THEM TO BEDS Apart AND BEAT THEM."
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This Quranic verse departs from biblical treatment of women. Nowhere in the Bible does God command a husband to inflict concrete punishment on his wife for any reason. In fact, the New Testament model is unlike in the extreme, Ephesians v:28, "Husbands ought to honey their own wives as their own bodies." Paul also remarks in Colossians 3:nineteen, "Husbands lov your wives and do not be harsh with them."
four:82 "Volition THEY NOT PONDER ON THE KORAN? IF It HAD Non Come up FROM GOD, THEY COULD Take SURELY Plant IN Information technology MANY CONTRADICTIONS."
Probably the best instance of contradiction with the Quran is in the opening verse of "The Imran'due south."
"HE HAS REVEALED TO You lot THE BOOK WITH THE TRUTH, CONFIRMING THE SCRIPTURES WHICH PRECEDED IT; FOR HE HAS ALREADY REVEALED THE TORAH AND THE GOSPEL FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MANKIND..."
The Quran claims that information technology confirms the Bible, then information technology proceeds to rewrite events in the Gospel accounts, thus, denying the Gospel.
By way of two examples:
· The Gospel of Luke records the prophecy of and birth of John the Baptist. "The Imran's" records a different business relationship.
· All iv Gospel's record the account of Jesus expiry on the cross, a expiry prophecied about in the Old Testament. "Women" says that "they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, they thought they did."
It is an impossibility that the Quran can both wholly confirm and deny the biblical accounts. The Quran cannot both label the Gospel's every bit true, and so refer to their historical accounts every bit lies Ñ yet it does. Most Muslims believe that this is explained past the didactics that the Gospels nosotros take today are non the same Gospel Mohammad referred to. Still, this is not truthful. In every reference to the Torah and Gospels in the Quran, Mohammad refers to them in the Present TENSE; thus signifying their beingness during his time. In one passge, Mohammad even tells Jews and Christians to look to the Torah and Injeel since they have them. Subsiquent centuries of commentators and scholars employ the same Gospels (Injeel) we have today every bit their reference.
4:114 "GOD Volition NOT FORGIVE IDOLATRY."
I Corinthians half dozen:nine-11 "Know ye non that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Exist not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters...shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of y'all: only ye are washed, merely ye are sanctified, only ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
4:157-158 "THEY DENIED THE TRUTH AND UTTERED A MONSTROUS FALSEHOOD Against MARY. THEY DECLARED: 'Nosotros Accept PUT TO DEATH THE MESSIAH, JESUS THE SON OF MARY, THE APOSTLE OF GOD.' THEY DID NOT KILL HIM, NOR DID THEY Crucify HIM, Only THEY Thought THEY DID...THEY DID NOT SLAY HIM FOR Sure. GOD LIFTED HIM UP TO HIM..." [Become TO CONTENT Table]
This one section of the Quran pretends to correct the "errors" in the biblical accounts in Matthew, Marking, Luke and John. Not only this, just secular historians like Josephus and others make remarks that Jesus, who was the Messiah, was crucified by the Jews and Romans. The Hadith, a grade of writings Muslims believe Mohammad spoke, teach that Jesus was swtiched with Judas at the time, and it was actually Judas who was crucified. If that were true then God would accept crucified an inoccent man against his will (as oppsed to Jesus who wanted to die for u.s.a.). Also, in that location is the unanswered question of, "Who hung himself?"
four:171 "PEOPLE OF THE BOOK [CHRISTIANS], Practice Not TRANSGRESS THE BOUNDS OF YOUR RELIGION. SPEAK Aught BUT THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD. THE MESSIAH, JESUS THE SON OF MARY WAS NO MORE THAN GOD'S APOSTLE AND HIS Word WHICH HE Bandage TO MARY: A SPIRIT FROM HIM. SO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS APOSTLES AND Exercise Non SAY, 'THREE.' FORBEAR, AND IT SHALL Be BETTER FOR YOU. GOD IS Simply ONE GOD. GOD Forbid THAT HE SHOULD HAVE A SON!" [GO TO CONTENT Table]
This passage denies the trinity, and that Jesus Christ was God'due south only Son. Interestingly, the language used about how Mary conceived Jesus should be noted (although this is an English translation). "JESUS...WAS NO More GOD'Due south...WORD WHICH HE Cast TO MARY..."
John one:1 "In the offset was the Word, and the Discussion was with God, and the Word WAS GOD."
This verse of the Quran contradicts itself in lite of what the New Testament claims nearly Jesus Christ
The post-obit verses are taken from the Quran: "The Tabular array."
5:iii "Y'all ARE FORBIDDEN Feces, BLOOD AND THE FLESH OF SWINE; Besides Whatever Flesh Defended TO Any OTHER GOD...Besides OF ANIMALS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS"
Several Bible passages speak reverse to this Quranic passage.
Acts ten:11-15 "And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a dandy sheet knit at the 4 corners, and let downward to the earth: Wherein were all fashion of iv footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten whatever affair that is common or unclean. And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not chiliad common."
Romans fourteen:14-seven "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any matter to exist unclean, to him [it is] unclean. Just if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Let not and so your adept exist evil spoken of: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; only righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."
I Corinthians 8:8 &ten: "But meat commendeth the states not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we swallow not, are we the worse....For if any man meet thee which hast knowledge sit down at meat in the idol's temple, shall non the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to consume those things which are offered to idols..."
v:12 "GOD Fabricated A COVENANT WITH THE ISRAELITES...GOD SAID, 'I SHALL BE WITH YOU. IF YOU Attend TO YOUR PRAYERS AND RENDER THE ALMS LEVY; IF Y'all BELIEVE IN MY APOSTLES AND ASSIST THEM AND Give GOD A GENEROUS LOAN, I SHALL FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS AND Acknowledge YOU TO GARDENS WATERED BY RUNNING STREAMS."
Here once again, forgiveness and righteousness are based upon works that man does instead of on the work the Jesus did on the cross. The Quran also states that this was role of the covenant that God made with the Israelites. What is left out of this mention of the covenant (besides the fact that the higher up is not recorded in the scriptures) are the sacrifices.
The Law required regular sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin. Without those sacrifices, at that place was no forgiveness.
5:xv "UNBELIEVERS ARE THOSE WHO DECLARE: 'GOD IS THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF MARY.'"
The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was the merely Son of God, equal to God in every respect, and He became the Messiah. Jesus Himself claimed these things.
Phillippians 2:five-8, "Christ Jesus: Who, beingness in the class of God, thought it non robbery to be equal with God: But fabricated himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a retainer, and was made in the likeness of men: And beingness plant in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the decease of the cross."
John 8:23, 24, 56-58, "And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto yous, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins....Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my twenty-four hours: and he saw [it], and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Yard art non nevertheless fifty years erstwhile, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
v:44-48, "AFTER THEM We SENT Along JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, CONFIRMING THE TORAH ALREADY REVEALED, AND GAVE HIM THE GOSPEL, IN WHICH THERE IS GUIDANCE AND Lite, CORROBORATING WHAT WAS REVEALED Earlier IT IN THE TORAH, A GUIDE AND AN ADMONITION TO THE RIGHTEOUS. THEREFORE, LET THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE GOSPEL Approximate ACCORDING TO WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED THEREIN...AND TO YOU We HAVE REVEALED THE BOOK WITH THE TRUTH. It CONFIRMS THE SCRIPTURES WHICH CAME BEFORE Information technology AND STANDS Every bit A GUARDIAN OVER THEM." [GO TO CONTENT TABLE]
This Quranic passage does several things:
· It claims that God'south Discussion needs standing confirmation. "CONFIRMING THE TORAH ALREADY REVEALED," "CORROBORATING WHAT WAS REVEALED BEFORE It IN THE TORAH," "CONFIRMS THE SCRIPTURES WHICH CAME Earlier IT."
· It places the Quran in a identify above both the Old and New Testaments. "STANDS Every bit A GUARDIAN OVER THEM."
· Claims that all iii, Old and New Testament's and the Quran, hold.
None of these is true. The passage claims that Jesus was "given" the "Gospel," contrary to the biblical instruction that Jesus is the Gospel. The Koran, while challenge to agree with the Bible, spends considerable try altering or denying selected biblical records. (Meet my previous works on "The Cow," "The Imran'southward," and "Women.")
The Quran cannot be placed in a rank higher than that of the Bible when it claims to hold with information technology, then denies its truth. It, therefore, must be an inferior piece of work, with origins not from God.
5:51 "BELIEVERS, Have NEITHER JEWS NOR CHRISTIANS FOR YOUR FRIENDS. THEY ARE FRIENDS WITH ONE ANOTHER. WHOEVER OF You lot SEEKS THEIR FRIENDSHIP SHALL BECOME ONE OF THEIR NUMBER."
Well, let's hope the latter part of that Surah is always true! Withal, Romans 12:18 remarks, "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."
5:73 "UNBELIEVERS ARE THOSE WHO SAY: 'GOD IS Ane OF THREE.' THERE IS BUT ONE GOD. IF THEY Practise Not DESIST FROM SO SAYING, THOSE OF THEM THAT Disbelieve SHALL BE STERNLY PUNISHED." [Get TO CONTENT Table]
This Quranic passage denies the concept of the trinity, which the Scriptures back up.
GOD THE Father: Isaiah 44:half-dozen Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the FIRST, and I [am] the LAST; and abreast me [there is] no God."
GOD THE SON: Revelation 2:8 "And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the FIRST and the LAST, which was Expressionless, and is Live..."
GOD THE SON: Revelation 22:thirteen & 16, "I am ALPHA and OMEGA, the first and the end, the FIRST and the LAST...I Jesus take sent mine angel to prove unto you these things in the churches."
GOD THE SON: Acts 20:28 "Take heed therefore unto yourselves...to feed the church of GOD, which HE hath purchased with HIS own blood."
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT: I John 5:7, "For at that place are three that bear tape in heaven, the Begetter, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (Admitedly, this passage is in dispute, even among Christian scholars.)
5:110-112, "GOD WILL SAY, 'JESUS SON OF MARY, REMEMBER THE FAVOUR I BESTOWED ON YOU AND ON YOUR MOTHER: HOW I STRENGTHENED YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO THAT YOU PREACHED IN YOUR CRADLE AND IN THE PRIME OF MANHOOD; HOW I INSTRUCTED Yous IN THE Book AND IN WISDOM, IN THE TORAH AND IN THE GOSPEL; HOW BY MY LEAVE YOU FASHIONED FROM CLAY THE LIKENESS OF A BIRD AND BREATHED INTO SO THAT, BY MY LEAVE, IT BECAME A LIVING BIRD; HOW, By MY Get out, You HEALED THE Bullheaded MAN AND THE LEPER, AND Past MY Leave RESTORED THE Dead TO LIFE; HOW I PROTECTED Y'all FROM THE ISRAELITES WHEN YOU HAD Come up TO THEM WITH CLEAR SIGNS: WHEN THOSE OF THEM WHO DISBELIEVED Declared: 'THIS IS Just PLAIN SORCERY,' HOW WHEN I ENJOINED THE DISCIPLES TO BELIEVE IN ME AND MY Apostle THEY REPLIED: 'WE BELIEVE; Acquit WITNESS THAT WE SUBMIT.'"
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Phillippians 2 states that "Jesus emptied Himself." If Jesus truly became a man, only like other men, and then "preaching in the cradle" is in fact an impossibility.
The only records of Jesus always fashioning something and later making that affair alive are found in the Pseudepigrapha. Past the commencement of the third century, these writings were classed equally forgiers, fiction, or of import writings of dubious authorization.
iii:114, "So GOD WILL SAY: "JESUS SON OF MARY, DID You lot Ever SAY TO MANKIND: 'WORSHIP ME AND MY Female parent AS GODS Besides GOD?' 'GLORY TO YOU,' HE WILL ANSWER, 'HOW COULD I Always SAY THAT TO WHICH I HAVE NO RIGHT?'"
In every instance when men tried to bow in homage or worship to an affections, that angel refused to take such, and ordered the person to rise. This happened to Daniel and to John during the Revelation. Even so, when the disciples bowed in homage to Jesus, Jesus accepted their human action.
John 20:27-29, "Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my easily; and accomplish hither thy hand, and thrust [it] into my side: and be non faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, 1000 hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed."
The post-obit verses are taken from the Quran: "The Cattle"
6:8 "IF Nosotros HAD Made HIM AN ANGEL, Nosotros WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM THE SEMBLANCE OF A Homo, AND WOULD Take THUS ADDED TO THEIR CONFUSION."
This passage tells us that if God would have sent an angel to bring God'due south message to man, the angel would have been made into a human being. This is a stumbling cake for some, as Jesus Christ, was God, who was made in the semblance of a homo that He might alive and die as a man for our sins. If Muslims accept that God would take done this with an affections, why not and then exercise it Himself?
Philippians 2:five-11, "Permit this listen be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the class of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Only made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And existence found in fashion every bit a human, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto decease, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God as well hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every proper noun: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in sky, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth; And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the celebrity of God the Father."
six:51 "WARN THOSE WHO DREAD TO BE ASSEMBLED BEFORE THEIR LORD THAT THEY Take NO GUARDIAN OR INTERCESSOR BESIDES GOD, SO THAT THEY MAY GUARD THEMSELVES Against EVIL."
6:70 "THEY SHALL HAVE NO GUARDIAN OR INTERCESSOR BESIDES GOD."
The Bible states that there are 2 intercessor's on our behalf before God. One is with u.s.a., and One is our Loftier Priest Ñ Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Romans viii:26, "the Spirit itself maketh intercession for u.s.a. with groanings which cannot be uttered."
Romans 8:34, "Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is fifty-fifty at the correct hand of God, who also maketh intercession for united states of america."
Hebrews 7:25, "Wherefore He (Jesus Christ) is able as well to save them to the uttermost that come unto God past Him, seeing He e'er liveth to make intercession for them."
half dozen:81-82 "WHICH OF The states IS MORE DESERVING OF SALVATION? TELL ME IS Yous KNOW THE TRUTH. THOSE WHO Take FAITH AND Practise NOT TAINT THEIR FAITH WITH WRONGDOING SHALL SURELY EARN Conservancy, FOR THEY FOLLOW THE RIGHT PATH."
This passage places Abraham arguing with his detractors, saying that he was worthy of the salvation God gave him for the stated reasons. The Scripture disagrees with this....
Ephesians two:8-9, "For past grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [information technology is] the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should avowal."
Romans 4:16 "Therefore [it is] of organized religion, that [it might be] by grace...."
Abraham did do incorrect in God'south sight, thus tainting his "organized religion." Since it is by "grace" that salvation is given, "earning" salvation is not part of God's program.
half-dozen:92 "THIS IS THE Blessed Volume WHICH We HAVE REVEALED, CONFIRMING WHAT CAME BEFORE It..."
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six:101 "HE IS THE CREATOR OF HEAVENS AND THE Globe. HOW SHOULD HE HAVE A SON WHEN HE HAS NO CONSORT?
This passage assumes that in order for God to have a son, God would have to practise this in the same fashion that men do; but, God cannot have a married woman, thus, He cannot have a son.
The basic assumption of this passage is wrong according to what the New Testament tells us is the business relationship of Jesus conception and birth. Interestingly enough, information technology is also the major stumbling block to many Jews. They besides struggle with the concept of God having a Son, since God could not have a wife.
Matthew 1:20, "....the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost."
Luke 1:34-35, "Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this exist, seeing I know not a man? And the affections answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be built-in of thee shall be called the Son of God."
The formulation of Jesus Christ is non claimed to accept happened by God taking Mary every bit His consort; rather, it was a supernatural human activity. God created Jesus Christ in the womb in a new an supernatural mode. The Old Attestation prophesied this:
Jeremiah 31:22, "....for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall encompass a human being."
Some have said that this is not a reference to the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, male children are e'er encompassed by their mothers. Yet, why would God country this as a "new affair" if it was not truly miraculous. This was a virgin birth.
6:118, 121, "Swallow Only THAT OF WHICH HAS BEEN CONSECRATED IN THE NAME OF GOD, IF Y'all TRULY BELIEVE IN HIS REVELATIONS...THEREFORE, DO NOT Swallow OF THAT WHICH HAS NOT Exist CONSECRATED IN THE NAME OF GOD, FOR THAT WOULD Exist SINFUL..."
There is a biblical admonition that sounds like to this passage. It, notwithstanding, is quite different in meaning. This Quranic passage requires food be consecrated "in the proper noun of God," or eating it is sinful. I Timothy 1-5 states: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils....Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every animate being of God [is] good, and nix to exist refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified past the word of God and prayer."
Acts 10:13-15, "And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. Just Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I accept never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice [spake] unto him once more the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call non 1000 mutual."
In these passages we encounter that the foods formerly "unclean" are fabricated "clean" past God Himself declaring (His Word) that Peter should "kill and eat." Thus, eating without praying is not a sin. God has already sanctified our food Ñ He, after all, created information technology. God did this to remove trivialities and give us freedom in Christ:
Romans 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."
6:128 "HE WILL SAY: THE Fire SHALL Be YOUR HOME, AND THERE You lot SHALL REMAIN FOREVER UNLESS GOD ORDAIN OTHERWISE." [GO TO CONTENT TABLE]
This verse seems to imply that God may change His mind about someone staying in Hell. The Bible refutes this. Jesus stated in advance of the Quran that the sinner's dwelling in Hell will not exist escapable. We can only avoid Hell by deciding to believe in Jesus now.
Matthew 23:33 "[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Implication: You lot can't.)
6:141 "HE (GOD) DOES NOT LOVE THE Dissipated." [Get TO CONTENT Table]
Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while nosotros were nevertheless sinners, Christ died for the states."
Titus three:3 "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and green-eyed, hateful, [and] hating one another. But afterwards that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward homo appeared...."
six:145 "SAY: I FIND Zip IN WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO ME THAT FORBIDS MEN TO Consume ANY GOOD EXCEPT CARRION, RUNNING Blood, AND THE Flesh OF SWINE Ñ AND ANY Mankind THAT HAS BEEN PROFANELY CONSECRATED TO GODS OTHER THAN GOD."
See the reference above: 6:118, 121. Likewise, notation Paul's words in I Corinthians 8:4, vii-viii, "Equally concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, nosotros know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one....for some with censor of the idol unto this hour eat [information technology] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their censor beingness weak is defiled. But meat commendeth united states of america not to God: for neither, if we consume, are we the better; neither, if nosotros eat not, are nosotros the worse."
6:159 "Accept NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE WHO Have SPLIT Up THEIR Faith INTO SECTS. GOD WILL Phone call THEM INTO Account AND DECLARE TO THEM WHAT THEY Accept DONE."
Suffi'due south, Sunni'southward, Shiites, 19ers, etc.
The following verses are taken from the Quran: "The Heights" & "The Spoils."
7:19 "TO ADAM HE SAID: 'DWELL WITH YOUR Married woman IN PARADISE, AND EAT OF Whatever FRUIT YOU PLEASE; BUT NEVER Arroyo THIS TREE OR You SHALL BOTH BECOME TRANSGRESSORS'....THEIR LORD CALLED OUT TO THEM, 'DID I NOT FORBID You lot TO APPROACH THAT TREE....?'"
Ii dissimilar English language versions of the Quran that I checked interpret this as "approach" or "go near;" thus, what is forbidden is to arroyo the tree besides as the biblical admonition not to eat of its fruit. The biblical account did not preclude going most the tree. In fact, non going about the tree, would in fact, be impossible, as both trees were together in the center of the garden and Adam and Eve were immune admission to the Tree of Life before the fall (Genesis 3:9).
Genesis 3:16-17 "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden k mayest freely consume: Merely of the tree of the knowledge of skillful and evil, k shalt not eat of information technology: for in the day that g eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
7:31 "HE (GOD) DOES Non LOVE THE INTEMPERATE."
vii:55 "HE DOES NOT LOVE THE TRANSGRESSORS."
eight:51 "GOD DOES Not Dearest THE TREACHEROUS." (From "The Spoils.) [GO TO CONTENT Table]
Certainly God bears no love for man's sin, only for the sinner He holds swell dearest. These biblical passages point to God'due south swell unmerited dear for us:
John 3:16 "For God so loved the globe..."
Romans 5:viii "But God commendeth his honey toward us, in that, while nosotros were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his neat love wherewith he loved us..."
"Even when we were expressionless in sins, hath quickened usa together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;"
Titus 3:three-six "For we ourselves likewise were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, mean, [and] hating one some other. Simply later on that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which nosotros accept done, but according to his mercy he saved u.s.a., by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on u.s.a. abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour..."
I John 4:10 "Herein is honey, non that nosotros loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins."
7:43 "AND A VOICE Will CRY OUT TO THEM SAYING, 'THIS IS THE PARADISE WHICH You lot HAVE EARNED WITH YOUR LABOURS."
Every bit pointed out in earlier releases of these text, God's favor is not bestowed considering of our "works," rather, because of His grace Ñ unmerited favor. (Ephesians 2:8-ix.)
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