Facts On ---- Islam -- Chapter Ten

10 -- The facts ob Islam

SECTION III

The Bible of Islam: Is the Koran the Word of God?

10. Does the Koran deny the Bible?

    Everyone who carefully and impartially reads both the Bible and the Koran must agree that, as they both stand, the Koran and the Bible contradict one another on every major religious doctrine: the nature of God, Jesus, salvation, man, Scripture, etc. If the New Testament was not corrupted, as we will prove, then how could Allah be the inspiration behind both the Bible and the Koran, which contradicts it? This would force us to conclude that God's revelations are contradictory - and therefore useless. Consider the following chart, which we documented in Section II:

The Koran
God - unitarian
Jesus - a man
Salvation - by works; uncertain

The Bible
God - trinitarian
Jesus - God incarnate
Salvation - by grace; assured

    Again, if the manuscript evidence forces us to conclude the Bible has not been corrupted, there is only one conclusion a Muslim can logically reach. If Allah really inspired both the Bible and the Koran, then he contradicts himself to such an extent that it would be impossible to ascertain his teachings or will for mankind.
    Muslims respond by saying that the Bible has been corrupted and, therefore, its present teachings are untrustworthy. Only the Koran is pure and uncorrupted. But this argument is indefensible on historic, textual, and even Koranic grounds, as we will see.
    In the next 8 questions we will seek to determine if the Koran is "pure and uncorrupted" as Muslims claim, and whether their claim that the Bible is corrupted and untrustworthy is valid.

John Ankerberg & John Weldon