Bible answer guy is focused on the truth of the Bible and looks at the questions and answers here in light of the witness of the old and new testaments of the Holy Bible.
Our expertise is not in Koranic literature,
but the research is available to support the claims in this article.
It is perhaps sad, but also true.
The Qur'an was written around the 7th century AD.
The Bible was written first.
The old testament was finished by the fifth Century BC (about 450 years before Jesus lived)
The New Testament was completed in the first century by people who knew Jesus personally.
The Qur'an and the Bible do not agree with each other about key facts.
Three of which are: God's promises to Israel, the time when Moses lived, and the life and death of the messiah Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ).
The Qur’an is the Islamic scripture that claims to be the final word from God.
The Koran is based solely upon what one person (Muhammad) allegedly saw and heard.
According to Islamic tradition, Mohammed, the founder of Islam, received revelations from the angel Gabriel on various occasions over a period of twenty-three years (Geisler and Saleeb, 1993, p. 90; cf. Sura 25:32; 17:106). After each personal encounter with Gabriel, Mohammed allegedly recited the words to scribes (cf. Sura 73:1-7). The Islamic scripture is based entirely upon these private “experiences.” The author Kippy Myers noted: “Only one person allegedly saw the angel. Only one person allegedly heard a voice. Only one person allegedly saw the visions. The only way to become a Moslem, then, is to take this one man’s word for it” (1994, p. 11).
In addition to containing some extreme contradictions, the Koran has been criticised as historically inaccurate (it gets dates and names wrong) and geographically flawed (it gets locations and names of places wrong).
On the other hand, the Bible is based in history, not in the subjective experience of one individual. About forty different men from various backgrounds wrote the Bible over a period of 1,600 years. It is backed by objective, historical events experienced by thousands of individuals. Cultures outside the Judeo-Christian faith reaffirm many Biblical accounts. And many of its places, events, and people can be verified by history. Many biblical places and persons, which for centuries were unknown to secular history (such as the great Hittite nation), now have been discovered. Archaeology, literature, science, and geography confirm its details, and tie it to a reality outside the mind of any single person or any group of people.
The Bible has also been scrutinized and criticized and is not subject to the same glaring inconsistencies.
This commentary is not an attack on those who seek to worship God in truth who happen to be Muslim. It is a very basic textual comparison of the documents that underlie two world religions.
Jesus teaches us to love our neighbours as we love ourselves.
We love our Muslim brothers and sisters. There is no hate here.
We love our Muslim brothers and sisters. There is no hate here.
In the old testament of the Holy Bible,
God promises that he will make Ishmael into a great nation.
It has come to pass.
The God of the Bible gets all the credit.
God promises that he will make Ishmael into a great nation.
It has come to pass.
The God of the Bible gets all the credit.
