Facts On ---- Islam -- Chapter Twelve

12 -- The Facts on Islam

SECTION III

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

12. Does the Koran contain contradictory teachings?

    The Koran claims that it contains no contradictions. In Sura 4:84 Allah challenges men, "Will they not ponder on the Koran? If it had not come from Allah, they could have surely found in it many contradictions." Since Allah claims not to contradict himself, then everything that has purportedly "come down from him" (the Bible, the Koran) must be in agreement. The Muslim must believe in the doctrinal unity among the books of Allah - the Bible as originally given and the Koran. But we have just seen they conflict; further, the Koran contains contradictions within its own pages. In Sura 11 the Koran teaches that one of Noah's sons didn't go into the ark and thus "Noah's son was drowned" in the Flood. The Koran itself contradicts this statement in Sura 21, where it declares that "we saved him [Noah] and all his kinsfolk from the great calamity . . . " According to the Bible, all of Noah's sons are delivered (Genesis 6, 7) and the genealogies are provided.
    The Koran also has conflicting accounts of Muhammad's original call to be a prophet in Sura 53:2-18; 81:19-24 vs. Sura 16:102: 26:192-194 vs. Sura 15:18; 2:97.
    Sura 41:9-12 teaches it took God eight days to create the world, whereas Sura 7:51; 10:3; and 11:6 teach it took God six days. (For more examples, see Islam Invasion by Robert Morey.)

John Ankerberg & John Weldon