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Islamic Apologetics (JBJ)

2010-07-01T11:06:49Z

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==Islam Teaches Christianity==

The following are arguements show that Islam teaches that Christianity is true. These are excellent ways to lead Muslims to Christianity because they encourage Muslims to obey the Qur'an. See also [[Comparing Christianity and Islam (JBJ)|Comparing Christianity and Islam]].

* [[Apologetics: The Qur'an Teaches the Bible Is True (JBJ)|The Qur'an Teaches the Bible Is True]]
* [[Apologetics: Jesus as the Walad of God (JBJ)|The Qur'an does not Reject Jesus as the Son of God]]
* [[Muhammad did not Perform Miracles (JBJ)|Muhammad did not Perform Miracles]]
* [[The Qur'an Teaches Jesus Was the Messiah (JBJ)|The Qur'an Teaches Jesus Was the Messiah]]
* [[Apologetics: The Qur'an Teaches Jesus' Disciples Overcame (JBJ)|The Qur'an Teaches Jesus' Disciples Overcame]]
* [[The Qur'an Teaches Jesus Crucified and Resurrected (JBJ)|The Qur'an Teaches Jesus Crucified and Resurrected]]

==Islamic Proofs==

Responding to the proofs that Islam is true.

* Numberical Miracle of the Qur'an
* [[Literary Miracle of the Qur'an]]
* The Quick Spread of Islam by Muhammad
* Scientific Miracle from the Qur'an

==Themes in Islam==

* Apologetics: The Morality of Muhammad
* Apologetics: Gabriel in Islam
* Apologetics: Love in Islam
* Apologetics: Lying in Islam
* Apologetics: Violence in Islam
* [[Apologetics: Women in Islam]]

==Contradictions in the Qur'an==

On whether the Qur'an contradicts itself, science, and history. Please note that that not all of these are proofs against the Qur'an. Some may be completely false; the purpose of these is to show the following:

* It's easy to make such mistakes about a complex book like the Qur'an.
* How to explain they are false when presented elsewhere as true.

===Internal Contradictions===

* Confusion of Sura 4.159

===Scientific Contradictions===

* Apologetics: Solomon Hears Ants
* Apologetics: Qur'anic Cosmology
* Apologetics: Qur'anic Embrylogy
* Apologetics: Mountains with Minds
* Apologetics: Sunrise and Sunset
* Apologetics: Seven Earths
* Apologetics: Stars Thrown at Demons
* Apologetics: Sun and Moon Subject to Man
* Apologetics: Mountains Prevent Earthquakes
* Apologetics: Noah and his Son
* Apologetics: Solomon's Army of Birds
* Apologetics: Solomon Speaks with a Bird
* Apologetics: Shaking a Palm Tree ]
* Apologetics: Thinking with Breasts
* Apologetics: All Things in Pairs

===Historical Contradictions===

* Apologetics: Moses and the Samaritan
* Apologetics: The Farthest Mosque
* Apologetics: Pharoahs who Crucified
* Apologetics: Burnt Brick in Egypt
* Apologetics: Haman in Egpyt
* Apologetics: Utterly Destroyed
* Apologetics: al Aziz
* Apologetics: Ezra the Son of God
* Apologetics: Alexander the Great the Muslim
* Apologetics: No One Named John before John
* Apologetics: The Crucifixion
* Apologetics: Mary Part of the Trinity

==Contradictions in Ahadith==

Ahadith (plural of hadith) are sayings and deeds of Muhammad collected by various editors. Many are considered by Muslims to be historically inaccurate.

===Sahih Bukhari===

Bukhari is the most recognized editor of ahadith, trusted by almost all Muslims.

===Sahih Muslim===

Muslim is the second most recognized editor of ahadith, trusted by almost all Muslims.

==Textual Critism==

Is the Qur'an published today the same as when Muhammad first recited it? Which hadith are authentic?

* Different Versions of the Qur'an - Not translations, but different words and punctuation.
* Grammatical Errors in the Qur'an
* History of the Qur'an
* Foreign Words in the Qur'an
* Sources of the Qur'an - The use of false sources in the Qur'an.

==Misc Issues==

* Abrogation in the Qur'an
* [[Muhammad Was not Illiterate]]

==Links==
* [http://www.bible-quran.com/ Is the Qur'an the Word of God?]
* [http://www.islamisnotwhatyouthink.com Islam is Not What You Think.com] About Radical Islam - Includes Ex Muslim Testimonies.
* [http://answering-islam.org/L_c-on-i.html Links to sites]

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Apologetics: The Qur'an Teaches the Bible Is True (JBJ)

2010-07-01T10:56:55Z

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While modern Muslims believe the Torah, Psalms, and Gospel are corrupted from their original revelation, we find no such teaching in original Islam. Rather, the Qur'an teaches these books were true, did not contradict the Qur'an, and prophesied about himself. This belief changed when Muslims realized the Qur'an and Bible disagreed.

Most Muslims will say the Qur'an only refers to the Torah, Psalms, and the Gospels, but the Qur'an's meaning is obscure and could mean the entire Old and New Testaments. This article will use '''Bible''' as short to mean whatever the Qur'an meant.

==History of Corruption==

The first known Muslim to recognize the contradictions between the Bible and the Qur'an was Ibn Khazem (?-1064 CE), vizier of Spain and writer against Christians. Thus for four hundred years there was no reference to the idea. He concluded that because they were in disagreement, the Bible (containing the Torah, Zabur, and Injil) must be wrong. However, knowing that the Qur'an told Muhammad "believe in what hath been revealed to thee and what (scripture) was revealed before thee (the Torah and the Injil)." Qur'an Surah 4.162 He concluded, "Therefore, the present text must have been falsified by the Christians after the time of Muhammad."

Some scholars, such as Al Ghazzali (?-1111 CE), disagreed. Ibn Kathir (1301-1372) wrote that the Jews did not alter the Torah, only their interpretation of the Torah:
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The phrase "[they] displace words from (their) right places" means that they mistinterpret them and understand them in a way that Allaah did not intend, doing this deliberately and inventing lies against Allaah.
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However, in the following two hundred years, most scholars came to agree with Ibn Khazem, but they pushed the date of change earlier, previous to the time of Muhammad. [[Paul]] and [[Constantine]] were often blamed. In more modern times, the belief of such conspiracy has been downplayed and replaced with the idea that corruption came through many small changes by many copyists in the second and third centuries CE for the Injil. The corruption of the Torah and Zabur was moved back to before Jesus' time, before the earliest manuscripts known today. Today, the corruption of the holy books is a virtually undisputed belief.

==Qur'anic Verses==

===The Qur'an "Confirms" the Bible===
The first set of references cite the Qur'an as "confirming" the Bible. If the Bible had been corrupted already and no one knew its real message anymore, there would be nothing to confirm. It does no good to confirm something that does not exist. It cannot confirm it in the minds of the original Israelites to whom it was revealed because they are not alive to hear the Qur'an.

Yusuf Ali's translation is used except as noted. For brevity, the entire verse is not quoted. The excluded text never changes the meaning of the included text.

: ''And believe in what I reveal, confirming the revelation which is with you. 2.41''

: ''Yet they reject all besides, even if it be Truth confirming what is with them. 2.91''

: ''And when there came to them a messenger from Allah, confirming what was with them, a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs 2.101''

: ''He brings down the (revelation) to thy heart by Allah's will, a confirmation of what went before, and guidance and glad tidings for those who believe. 2.97''

: ''It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it 3.3''

: ''I give you a Book and Wisdom; then comes to you a messenger, confirming what is with you; do ye believe in him and render him help. 3.81''

: '' O ye unto whom the Scripture hath been given! Believe in what We have revealed confirming that which ye possess. Pickthall 4.47''

: ''We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it. 5.48''

: ''This is a Book which We have sent down, bringing blessings, and confirming (the revelations) which came before it. 6.92''

: This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than Allah; on the contrary it is a confirmation of (revelations) that went before it, and a fuller explanation of the Book. 10.37''

: ''It is not a tale invented, but a confirmation of what went before it. 12.111''

: ''He has come with the (very) Truth, and he confirms (the Message of) the messengers (before him). 37.37''

: ''And before this, was the Book of Moses as a guide and a mercy: And this Book confirms (it) in the Arabic tongue. 46.12''

: ''We have heard a Book revealed after Moses, confirming what came before it. 46.30''}}

===Commands to Believe in the Bible===

The following verses command those who hear the Qur'an to believe in the Bible, which they could not do if the Bible was corrupted.

: ''We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord. 3.84''

: ''Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and the scripture which He hath sent to His Messenger and the scripture which He sent to those before (him). 4.136''

: ''Dispute ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better (than mere disputation), unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong (and injury): but say, "We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you 29.46''}}

===Jews and Christians to Use the Bible===

: ''Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? 2.44''

: ''Bring ye the Law and study it, if ye be men of truth. 3.93 ''

: ''Why do they (Jews) come to thee for decision, when they have (their own) law before them?- therein is the (plain) command of Allah. 5.43''

: ''Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah hath revealed therein. 5.47''

: ''O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord." It is the revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord. 5.68''

: ''Is he not acquainted with what is in the Books of Moses? 53.36''

The context of the preceding verse is speaking to an unrighteous Jew, meaning that had he study Torah, he would not be unrighteous.

===Misc References===

: ''Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them. 7.157''

The preceding verse states that Jews and Christians have the Bible in their possession. There is disagreement among translations whether the phrase "with them" should exist. This does not change the conclusion of the verse because it speaks in the present, and they could not find Muhammad in the Torah and Gospel if it were not with them.

: ''We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them. 2.136''

The preceding verse tells Muslims to find common ground with Jews and Christians because of the Bible. This would be a strange thing to do if the Bible was corrupted.

: ''We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him 5.46''

This states the Torah or Old Testament was uncorrupted at the time of Jesus.

: ''If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee. 10.95''

: ''Has not a Clear Sign come to them of all that was in the former Books of revelation? 20.133''

: ''Without doubt it is (announced) in the mystic Books of former peoples. Is it not a Sign to them that the Learned of the Children of Israel knew it (as true)? 26.196-197''''

===No Book can Be Changed===

The Qur'an says that God protects the Qur'an from being corrupted. Some Christians claim that the Qur'an is speaking of the Bible as well.

==Hadith References==

The ahadith report the Bible is not corrupted as well.

==Alleged References to the Corruption==

Muslims cite several verses as saying that the Bible was corrupted. However, these verses clearly refer to verbally changing Bible, either by their hypocrisy, actually misquoting the Bible, or simply disagreeing with what Muhammad ''thought'' the Bible says. Also, the people the Qur'an refers to are still alive at the time of the Qur'an's speaking, whereas those who corrupted the Bible must have been long dead.

: ''But the transgressors changed the word from that which had been given them. 2.59''

The preceding verse may or may not refer to the Jews. Also, Moses was still alive here and would have corrected the corruption, if it was not oral.

: ''Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say:"This is from Allah." 2.79''

: ''[To Jews and Christians] Who is more unjust than those who conceal the testimony they have from Allah? 2.140''

: ''There is among them a section who distort the Book with their tongues: (As they read) you would think it is a part of the Book, but it is no part of the Book; and they say, "That is from Allah," but it is not from Allah: It is they who tell a lie against Allah, and (well) they know it! 3.78''

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==Corruption after Muhammad==

A possible way to avoid contradiction to say the Bible was corrupted after the Qur'an was written. However, this is impossible also. Many manuscripts of the Bible are dated before Muhammad, enough to reconstruct the entire Old and New Testament.

==External Links==
* [http://answering-islam.org/Quran/Bible/index.html Resources on Answering-Islam.org]
* [http://www.bible-quran.com/ Is the Qur'an the Word of God?]

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Islam

2010-07-01T10:54:55Z

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topic_name = Islam
[[Image:800px-Supplicating Pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram. Mecca, Saudi Arabia.jpg|thumb|center|Millions of Muslims make the pilgrimage to [[Mecca]] each year.]] |
subtopics = Major figures - [[Muhammad]]
* Texts - [[Quran]]
* Islamic beliefs - [[Islam: God|Islamic view of God]], [[Islam:Prayer|Prayer in Islam]], [[Islam: Fasting|Fasting in Islam]], [[Islam: Haaj|The Haaj]], [[Islam: Jesus|Islamic view of Jesus]], [[Islam: Women|Women in Islam]], [[Jihad]]
* [[Divisions in Islam]] - [[Sunni]], [[Shi'a]]
* [[Islamic Law]]
* Holy Cities - [[Mecca]]
* [[Testimonies: People who were once Muslims Index]]
* {{books}}
** [[I dared to call him Father (book)|I dared to call him Father]] - A book about a Pakistani woman's remarkable conversion from Islam to Christianity |
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* [[Islam (G.G.)]]
* [[Christian View of Islam (JBJ)]]
* [[Islamic Apologetics (JBJ)]]
* Testimonies - [[Al-Gharib's testimony]]
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Islam is a religion based on the belief in [[monotheism|one God]] that began in the 7th century after Christ. An Arab, called [[Muhammed]] founded it. It quickly spread throughout the [[Middle East]] and Northern [[Africa]] through the conquest of Muslim armies. Today there are millions of Muslims around the world.

===[[Muhammad]]===

===[[Quran]]===

===History of Islam===

===Islamic beliefs===

====[[Islam: God|Islamic view of God]]====

The Islamic creed (known as the shahādah) is the declaration of belief in the unity of God and the prophethood of Muhammad. Its recitation is considered one of the Five Pillars of Islam. When sincerely stated aloud, one is considered to have officially declared oneself a convert to Islam.

====[[Islam:Prayer|Prayer in Islam]]====

In Islam, there are five daily obligatory prayers for all Muslims. Many Muslims find salat the most important part of their faith.

====[[Islam: Fasting|Fasting in Islam]]====

====[[Islam: Haaj|The Haaj]]====

====[[Islam: Jesus|Islamic view of Jesus]]====

====[[Islam: Women|Women in Islam]]====

====[[Jihad]]====

===[[Divisions in Islam]]===

====[[Sunni]]====

====[[Shi'a]]====

===[[Islamic Law]]===

===Islam Today===

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==Quotes==

==Links==
* [http://Answering-Islam.org Answering Islam]
* [http://www.carm.org/islam.htm Christian Apologetics Research Ministry - Islam]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam Wikipedia - Islam]
* [http://www.islam-watch.org/ Islam Watch]
* [http://www.bible-quran.com/ Is the Qur'an the Word of God?]

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Cross

2010-07-01T10:54:00Z

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topic_name = Cross
[[Image:Simple_cross.jpg|thumb|75px|center|The traditional form of the cross (Latin cross)]] |
subtopics = [[Death of Jesus]]
* [[Justification]]
* [[Sign of the Cross]]
* [[Religious clothing and symbols]]
* Books
** [[The Cross of Christ (book)|The Cross of Christ]] by [[John Stott]]
* Songs
** [[I Will Love You for the Cross (song)|I Will Love You for the Cross ]] |
opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |
}}

The [[Christian]] '''cross''' is a familiar religious symbol of Christianity. Its significance lies in the belief that [[Jesus Christ]] was executed by crucifixion - death by nailing to a cross. To Christians, the cross represents what our sin has done, and yet [[God]]'s great [[love]] and [[mercy]] towards us.

===History and Usage===

During the first three centuries of Christianity, the cross was rare in Christian iconography, although descriptions of it are found in Christian writings from the early 2nd century onwards. The Ichthys was a symbol used by early covert Christians to identify each other. The Cross first became prominent in Christian imagery during the 3rd century.

The cross represents Christ's victory over death and sin.

Catholic and Orthodox Christians often make the sign of the cross by moving their right hand so as to draw a cross upon themselves.

===Forms===

==Quotes==

==Links==

* [http://www.bible-quran.com/book/jesus-death-cross/ Jesus' Death on the Cross and the Qur'an]

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