![]() If the Qur’an was written six hundred years after the writing of the Gospels, did Allah not know it was corrupted in 632 AD? How can Muslims living in the 21st century produce a better argument against the Gospels than the author of the Qur’an if the author of the Qur’an is believed to be Allah? This means that Muslims should not reject what the Gospels say about the identity of Jesus. If the Gospels have been corrupted, then why would the Qur’an tell Christians to judge by them? Today, Muslim arguments against the reliability of the message of the Gospels are significantly more advanced than that of the Qur’an. The Qur’an also talks about the truthfulness of the Gospels (Surah 3:3–4). ![]() (Surah 5:47) There are numerous reasons to believe that the Gospels are reliable and that what we are now reading in them is what the apostles wrote down And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient. 1 This is a strange claim since the Qur’an does not teach that the Gospels have been corrupted, but rather commands Christians and Muslims to judge by what is written in the Gospels: And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. Nevertheless, often when Christians do show Muslims that Jesus claimed to be divine, their response is to argue that the Gospels have been corrupted and therefore we cannot trust what they say about Jesus. Muhammad is the messenger of God.” Although both statements in the shahada are in the Qur’an (Surah 37:35 and 48:29), they are not found in those exact words in that order as a formula for someone to become a Muslim. As, if we applied the same criteria, then we could ask them to show us in the Qur’an where it says that to become a Muslim you have to use the exact words of the shahada (1 st pillar of Islam): “There is no god but God. ![]() Of course, this is an inconsistent and irrational demand. When sharing the gospel with Muslims, it is not uncommon to hear the objection: “Where did Jesus say, ‘I am God worship me’?” This is because many Muslims have been trained (by Muslim apologists) to ask this question of Christians and demand that the answer must be in those exact words.
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