Psalm26 Wrote:'Why should I believe that someone who lived 600 years after the event and hundreds of miles away from where it happened had the authentic record rather than those who were eye witnesses?'
In your experience, Pslam26, have you found Muslims suspicious of the Gospels themselves? Concerning the Gospels, off the top of my head, the only
major discrepancy between the Bible and the Koran regarding the life of Christ concerns the crucifixion of Christ, and his subsequent Resurrection.
My experience with Muslim regarding their hesitation over reliability Bible centers less on the accuracy of the Gospels, but rather on S. Paul. Mohammedans consider him a rabble-rouser who showed up after the fact and warped the person of Christ, calling him divine whereas before Christ was simply considered a prophet.
Quote: Of course Muslims deny that there was any human influence on the writing of the Koran
Did Mohammed write the Koran? I thought Caliph Uthman was the one who wrote the Koran? In the time of Mohammedan the work was only preserved in the minds of the first Muslims, and on clay jars and scraps of leather here and there.
Quote: For example in Sura 19.28-29 Mary the mother of Jesus is designated as 'sister of Aaron' and in Sura 66.12 as 'daughter of Imran'. Imran is an Arabic form of the Hebrew Amram, who was the father of 'Aaron, Moses and Miriam' (Numbers 26.59). The title sister of Aaron is given to Miriam in Exodus 15.20. Therefore not only was the mother of Jesus a virgin, she was also about 1500 years old!
Couldn’t the title “Sister of Aaron” be understood in the same way “Son of David” is? In other words, just as Christ wasn’t the actual biological son of King David, but rather his descendant, could a “Sister of Aaron” be taken in the same way?
Quote: The fact is that the truth remains the truth irrespective of how many people believe it.
This is a weak way to end the article. While ontologically true, it gives the immediate impression of, “I’m right, you’re wrong. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.”
Quote:The same God that appeared to Abraham was not the same as he who appeared to any other prophet outside of Holy Scripture.
My original comment you reference had nothing to do with the validity of Mohammed’s claims of prophethood.
Let me rephrase myself: consider a phone call. If an individual soul dials on his prayer line, “Creator of the Universe, God of Abraham,” he will be routed to the selfsame Entity regardless of whatever cultural baggage he may carry.* Intention is everything. If someone knows only an Islam through no fault of their own, why would God withhold himself from such a truth-seeking soul?
* For our purposes this is an individual born into an Islamic society, obviously through no fault of his own.