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CHRISTIANS ANSWER

MUSLIMS

by Gerhard Nehls

 

 

Published 1980 by "Life Challenge", PO. Box 273, Claremont, 7735, South Africa All rights reserved. Quotations out of the wider context are forbidden.

ISBN 0 620 04 702 x

Printed by Evangelical Mission Press, Box 72, Bellville 7530 

 

C O N T E N T S

1: HOW CAN PEOPLE CLAIM THAT THE BIBLE IS CORRUPT................. CORRUPT.....................1 ....1 Does the Qur'an allege that the Bible is corrupt?..........................................1 Do Christian Scholars allege that the Bible is corrupt?............................... 2 Do Muslim Theologians allege that the Bible is corrupt?.............................3 Did the Bible Come Down From Heaven?.......................................................4 How Did The Bible Come To Us?.....................................................................5 2: DO CHRISTIANS HAVE ANSWERS TO THE ISLAMIC ALLEGATIONS?.................................................................................................6 Are there forgeries, interpolations and contradictions in the Bible?...........8 Are there changes to and interpolations in the Bible?..................................9 Are there Contradictions in the Bible?..........................................................11 What Can we Say to these Objections brought forth against the Bible?...17 Is the Bible a Filthy Book Marred with wi th Obscenities and Atrocities?..........19 3: BIBLICAL PROPHECIES FULFILLED………………………………………..21 Some Prophecies and Fulfilment regarding Jesus…………………………..21 The Evidence of Eye-Witnesses………………………………………….…...…27 Some prophecies regarding the Jews…………………………….………...….28 Summary of Jewish history showing the Fulfillment of these prophecies………………………………………………………………………..….29 4: ISLAM DISAGREES DISAGREES WITH A AND ND DENIES FUNDAMENTAL BIBLICAL TEACHING……………………………………………………………………...…....34 Islamic objections to the doctrine of atonement..........................................34 Islamic objections to the divinity of Jesus and his sonship……………….42 Islamic objections to the doctrine of trinity…………………………………...46 Islamic objections to the crucifixion……………………………………………49 Secular history confirms the crucifixion…………………………………….…50 Islamic objections to the claim of the Universality of Jesus……………….54 5: ALLEGED PROPHECIES IN TH THE E BIBLE POINTING TO MUHAMMAD.....................................................................................................56 6: THE GOSPEL OF BARNABAS....................................................................60 History..............................................................................................................60

 

The Content......................................................................................................60 The Islamic Challenge.....................................................................................60 The Christian Answer......................................................................................61 Conclusion.......................................................................................................65 7: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHURCHES (DENOMINATIONS)?.............66 Do Christians believe in inherited sin?.........................................................68 8: WHAT THEN IS THE GOSPEL?..................................................................69

 

CHAPTER ONE

How Can People Claim That The Bible Is Corrupt? Does the Qur'an allege that the Bible is corrupt?                   "It was We who revealed the Law to Moses, Moses, therein was guidance and light ... and in their footsteps, We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law    that had come before him: We sent him the wasbefore guidance light, and confirmation of the Gospel, Law thattherein had come him,and a guidance and admonition to those who fear Allah. To thee (Muhammad) We sent the Scripture that came before it, and guarding it in it in safety." Surah Surah 5:47-51  5:47-51  "'O, People of the Book! Ye 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 Lord.' It is the revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord, that increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy ... those who believe (in the Qur'an), Qur'an), those who follow the Jewish (Scriptures ( Scriptures), ), and the Sabaeans and the Christians - any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, - on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve." Surah Surah 5:71-72  5:71-72 "If only they had stood fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that was sent to them from their    Lord, they would have enjoyed happiness." Surah Surah    5:69. See also Surah Surah    5:16, 7:169  "Dispute not with the People of the Book, save in the fairer manner, except for those of them that do wrong; and say: 'We believe in what has been sent down to us, and what has been sent down to you; Our God and your God is One and to Him we have surrendered.'"  surrendered.'" Surah Surah 29:45  29:45  "This Qur'an could not have been forged apart from God; but it is a confirmation of what is before it ..." ..." Surah Surah 10:37  10:37  "Before it was the Book of Moses for a model and a mercy; and this is a book confirming in Arabic tongue  tongue   to warn the evildoers and good tidings to the good-doers." Surah Surah 46:11  46:11  "Who sent down the Book that Moses brought as a light and guidance to men?  men?  You put it onto parchments, revealing some, and hiding much; and by which you were taught that you knew not, you and your fathers. Say, 'God'". Surah Surah 6:91  6:91  "And what We have revealed to thee of the Book, is the truth, confirming what is before it." it." Surah Surah 35:31  35:31 "Children of Israel ... believe in that I have sent down, confirming the revelation that is with you and you and be not the first to disbelieve in it ... and do not confound the truth with vanity and do not conceal the truth wittingly (i.e. concealing the truth against better knowledge)". Surah Surah 2:40-42  2:40-42

                             "We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of Apostles. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened (or confirmed) him with the Holy Spirit." Surah Surah    2:87  "And

 

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confirming what Surah 2:89 is with them  them   (the Taurat) ... they refused to believe in it." Surah 2:89  "He has sent down upon thee the Book with the truth, confirming what was before it  it  and He sent down Torah and the Gospel  Gospel  afore time, as guidance to the People and He sent down salvation." salvation."

Surah 3:3 Surah  3:3

          ! "#$                         "Before thee (i.e. Muhammad), also, the Apostles we sent were but men ... If you realise this not, ask    of those who possess the message." Surah Surah 21:7  21:7  "Believe in  Allah and His Messenger and the Scripture which He hath revealed unto his Messenger, and the scripture which He revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His Angles and the Last Day, He verily hath wandered far astray  ." ." Surah Surah    4:136  "Each one believeth in Allah and His Angels and His Scriptures and His Messengers - We make no distinction between any of his  messengers  messeng ers." Surah Surah 2:285  2:285  "Say: 'Bring you the Torah now and recite (or read) it, if you are men of truth'" truth'" (Again the existence of the Torah is presupposed).  Surah Surah 3:93  3:93  "You who have been given the Book, believe in what We have sent down, confirming that which is with you." you." Surah Surah 4:47  4:47 

%         & '(   #)*" *+ *, +#-+,. ++)/0. 0)** #". ")1$ 1,. #)/" /#. *)**-*+  0)1,123  4  5      6  7       (         "There is none that can change the Words of Allah. Already Allah.  Already hast thou received some account of those Apostles (or: the other Apostles also say so)." Surah Surah 6:34  6:34  "No change can there be in the Words of Allah." Surah Surah 10:64  10:64 

Do Christian Scholars allege that the Bible is corrupt? (                   8       9     7               "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?" Luke 6:46 "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned"! Mark 16:16  

 4       7 :  & 8  ;   <          ;   ) "Even the demons believe and tremble", we read in the Bible. James 2:19  

8        % %  %  =   ; %        %    % 4       ;      %       %         %                 7                     ) "I tell you the truth, no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again…no-one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit." John 3:3,5

 4     '    7) ! 01*-""13     8   '     9   3      >7>

 

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       >(>  >> 7                 4  ;              >7 >7  =>   >7 4 4> 8          5    >7>                         >7> 4      >7>                       7                           4  >> -7          

 4  ;            -7          4  >>    >7>    4          -      7                         8   7          ; 4         -7               ;  %          - 8         7         '        3                 >>      >(>                     "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other ! So, because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich ; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked." Revelation 3:11-17  

8        7 8     ) 8  <    < ?       ;  >>            >>  >7 (>     >>  >>       -7           7 ( -   @ 8     -             < 8     /$$                   "$$$                                     !          -         /$$  -     @    4  /2*,         ( 7 7     ! (      A 8   8              5                >>                        

Do Muslim Theologians allege that the Bible is corrupt? !                        >7>                     5                                             'B   3         4                     4      (  @                             (      

 

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    !                       6  7& ( (  C     7  ) >8            '3   > ( ( 5 8   : DE      : DE      8       > 6   7           8@.                     (              >                 4                  5                        %             < % @                    @     (   ;   %   %          %                  

Did the Bible Come Down Dow n From Heaven?      @      >D>        7         )  )  '3  ; '  B  B  3 B D   ;  ;   )  ) 7  ; B D   ;  ;

   5 ) 8 7  4 '?3  ; B D&       8    4  ; B D& =  &  4  E  ;        <  %    % %    (-   > >  >>  %         %  Hebrews Hebrews 10:5  % 6  ) "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father." John 14:9   :   6   ) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We   have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. >  John John 1:14    4    F ;  9  (  6               ; G 7                  ;        >>   8      9   >3 3             ' >7  >     '   .      .            (        3                           4                   >>                       ) :       -                       ! "      ! "I saw  the  the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted.  Isaiah 6:1    " 

  

"This is what the Lord says …" …" Jeremiah 13:8 and very many other places " This is what the Lord said  to  to me…" Jeremiah 13:1 and many other passages "An oracle : (or burden) the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi." Malachi 1:1  "And I saw what looked  like  like a sea of glass mixed with fire…"   Revelation 15:2 "When I saw  him,   him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said : "Do not be afraid." Revelation 1 :17 ; or even: "To the married I (Paul) give this command (not I, but the Lord)… I say this as a concession, not as a command… This is the rule I (Paul) lay down in all the churches… I have no command

 

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from the Lord, but I give a judgment…"  1 Corinthians 7:10,6,17,25

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CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER TWO

Do Christians Have Answers Answers To The Islamic Allegations?

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  -    - 8              4                      @                                             5         8   > ?>  -%@ ( %E  '   ( H--!  ;3        '      ;                  6          3   ;  A ?   6     . 6    ;   .  A        ;  <  >>     ?   7      7    > >            4                             -            4                  4              -7          

   5   5      - 4  ;  4  &>  ( (C 6   A    6 8    6    >   8         8 >    >  (      >     8       -     -8< 8        - > >        5  8                     '> >3          "  "A collection of every single word, commandment, permission, prohibition, censure and other teachings of the Master (Jesus) faithfully reproduced in it's pristine purity in the original Aramaic language which he spoke, would no doubt comprise the true word of God or the Bible. The great question is, is this  Bible in existence? The answer is clearly no, as every Bible scholar knows."

   $      "Among the things which have reached me about Jesus the Son of Mary stated in the Gospel which he received from God for the followers of the Gospel ... It is extracted from what John the Apostle set down for them when he wrote the Gospel for them from the Testament of Jesus ..." Siratu'l Rasool vs.149 

8  @  5   ; 9 ' ;3    6 8      8         > >      6 A       '  3         ; 9       6  5  8 85 '% ,#-/#/3        5         @      A ( ?      - 8  5   6             8  

 

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                           %           8                                 4                                           5        >G> 8           % 4           ;       % 4    8       7          G                   "What used to be the word of God, has been so adulterated by human hands, that the word of God is hardly distinguishable from the word of man. In some places we do still find a glimmer of the truth that Jesus taught - the gems of divine wisdom that he uttered for the good of his people - but these are few and far between in the jungles of interpolations and contradictions with which the Bible is dense ... Christianity, as we all know, is founded on blind belief  , where rational thinking plays no part whatever ... It is admitted by the most learned men in the Hebrew language, that the present English version of the Old Testament contains at least 100 000 errors (this would amount to approximately three errors in every verse. G.N.) ... It is not known for certain who in fact wrote any of the books of the Old Testament ... Christians them selves are in disagreement as to what books are inspired."

8                -          7                               C 6 I      ! /+// 4           8           (             '  /13 /13        D  I                        /0   '9 #  +   /2-0$ /2-0$33          ' 2)**  *+    *,3      '*3     

        5    $/J   12#2    9 < (         .                                                     ' F  !  A ; ( D  3 "Although an extravagant claim is put forward by Bible Societies and other fanatics, that the Bible is the most read book in the world, the contrary is true."

           4              > >                 8                      > ' 3 > '      <3                   > >                 (      9                         7               #     "The Bible was once upon a time the word of God" and that "the present Bible can never by any stretch of imagination be called

 

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the inspired word of God" and that "faith demands total allegiance to the Bible with its faults, absurdities, everything. Reason, on the other hand, is loath to accept matters that constitute an insult to the human intelligence."

#   "   % &  &   "What need has the Word of God to go through so many versions? Our reason says, that the true Word of God should have remained unaltered, uncorrupted, unrevised, exactly as it was revealed to Christ."

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                      ;        ;   5 % 4            4  ; '   " $      9              #$$           /#$$      =  K %   ;                %          /#$$       !           D            %                  '@       0$$  3                         7       (      '3                      4        7          '3    5      5              ;          %    %    4                          K          @    ;  8                                           /$$ $$$    =               7                 

 4                                      

Are there forgeries, interpolations and contradictions in the Bible? 8 5     > ?>  -%@ ( %E     ( H--!   % &    ;       "We hope to cull relevant non-Muslim material in support and denunciation of the Christian theories of the origin of sin, of Jesus' alleged sonship of God, the thesis of crucifixion of the Messiah, the doctrine of man's redemption through Jesus Christ and many other pressing and questionable matters. In this humble way I request above all things that this book would be an ambassador of goodwill and understanding between the East and the West, the forces of good and that of evil. Moreover, I am more than confident that a profound religious knowledge in the world scriptures and their diverse philosophies would incarnate the truest spirit of goodness in any nation, any people or any creed."

 

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 4   -                            "    ! " 

        ♦    ♦       6  ♦   



                8               (C 6 4      

Are there changes to and interpolations in the Bible? /  >          > '/1)0/      > I>     >D I>      > I>    >C 6 I>      /+// 8        9 7                    > I>                      ) 8      A                               ( '3   (           

 4       ((                              %       4      =       "$$$    9   /*$$        -  <                 C K        7  6                                ' >7  >3 >3                       5      7  !   C          .            >D (  I> 4                                    >   >      7 4   6 1)/1) >8       %           ; > 0  8 8 1)/*  > I> ) >     >  >9 8 > ) "The virgin shall be with child…"  %    >>       4                  ! 00)0, "  =     >    > D !   5

     0*-0#  6 0/       G      ;                   !                

4.    )                  ) 7                 

*  :       6    5   >     >  ? 0*)#/                     '7 (  7 73           7 I  7 

 

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   )    @  D !      7            >>            (   /)2      4                             '

#     6 1)#"  6 ,)//                     ) 8              6         A G   7  %    A  ( ' +2 !3       6  G    

     5         G                        E    4      7                           ( =                +       ;      /#-0$   >; 7>       >9 8 >) “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of 20 God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.   " 

  )                 7 G D  E 7               ;   

D          7     ;        -           (  A '( 73 .    (        G     K      7                    .                                             6      ;     I  '  !",0-"2$3) >6                > '7  :7 7 I 8   9   "$0-"$"3                     6            ! /#$       8 8     A          6  G 8                          :           ;  4           ;    0,)/2-0$                           & 4         &     ' (

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   4         7            8      A A     0,)"-+

 

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                         7     4        -                  7& A   ;  %   ♦

 

8      7                            (  5      

     >                     >    9                           5   5         (                  E                                    4                      G 7         ;             F                       #      "The difference between man and animal is that a man has a capacity of reason   to think. An animal cannot reason, it behaves by instinct. Reason  it what distinguishes man from animal."

 4      7         )              

              

Are there Contradictions in the Bible?                                   8 0 7 "+)2 6        .   0 C 0*),    8 0 7 00)0 E  *0       .   0 C ,)0+ -  )   !   

  0 7 *)#    / C 1)0+. ♦  0 7 /*)"/1)+    / C /#)/* 00)*". ♦  0 7 2)0#    / C *)0+. ♦  /  +)/+    / C ,)/0 A /,)//. ♦   6 /)/,    G "")//. ♦

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0 ( 0*)0*    / 7 0/)0#. 0 ( ,)*    / 7 /,)*. 0 ( /$)/,    / 7 /2)/,. 0 ( 0*)/2/"0*    / 7 0/)/#///000/$.  ; ",)1     /)"

8                                 5     *      "

/   7  :   > >      >        >               > 4     ; +)/2 ;  9      >     (       >         

 

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9        >     !)   )         > *!!              7 ,)0$       ) "Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate."

     > > 0  8  >>           "He who seeks finds." Matthew 7:8  

           A /)0,) “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.

 

  '     3  3 )

"Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord , would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices." Isaiah 1:15 : "When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if

you offer many prayers, I will not listen. The omitted reason is: Your hands are full of blood." The omitted reason is: "your hands are full of blood." and Psalm 18:4 : "They cried for help, but there was no-one to save them- to the Lord, but he did not answer." The omitted reason for this "contradiction" follows: "Thou didst deliver me from strife with the people…"

%     !              @       ;   !             ;    @ ;           8)/)/+-0$  ) "Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed… Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow… If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."      

  7 =     ; >    >  4    5            @   -  +  ,+-  +  .      )     7       ;    %     ;      8           ; 4              8 8 ! 0$ +,-+.  )  "Do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them as the Lord your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshipping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God."

8            ;      %                        ;  %       %   ;    = @    E ;       % 4                "  (         ( ;       8     ;    "For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life Leviticus 17:11 

         ;                                    ?) "Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths

 

 

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and convocations I cannot bear your evil assemblies. Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them." Isaiah 1:13-14   "When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the Lord Almighty… "Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?" – says the Lord Almighty… "Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the Lord Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands… When you bring injured, crippled or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?" says the Lord. "Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the Lord Almighty, "and my name is to be feared among the nations." Malachi 1:8-10,13-14   "Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice… For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry I Samuel 15:22-23  

*  ( @   ;  %    ;      ) "The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend." Exodus 33:11 "But the Lord God called to the man, ‘where are you?’" He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." Genesis 3:9-10 "So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, it is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared." Genesis 32:30   "I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple." No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,"  John 1:18 , Isaiah 6:1; and yet we read: " No "… never heard his voice nor seen his form…" John 5:37  and  and "You cannot see my face, for no-one may see me and live." Exodus 33:20  = 

    4         8      ;  (   %      %  %   ; /,)/-0 "0)0*0,  /*)/,-0$ 8        ;         % D >> ;        >4  ;   >  >4  ;   >&          / 0 "In it are verses basic of fundamental (of established meaning). They are the foundation of the Book; others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meaning except Allah and those who are firmly grounded." Surah 3:7   

           ;  G                  /0"!                   ;       #           ;      >             > 6 /)/2  He has "overlooked", however, that in the earlier part of the verse it says: "To drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots." "He" is not the Lord, but Judah. Therefore Judah could not drive out the inhabitants because of the chariots. The fact that God is with a person does not necessarily mean that all things run smoothly in life (e.g. Joseph was sold, enslaved and imprisoned and God used this event to save his brothers. The death of Christ certainly looked like a defeat, yet was the greatest victory). Indeed, we read in Romans 8 that:   "Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." And in Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him." And that incorporated what Paul, proclaiming the message of God to the heathen of his time, had to state: "… we are dishonoured… we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are

 

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brutally treated, we are homeless … cursed… persecuted… slandered." 1 Corinthians 4:10-13   "We are hard pressed on every side… perplexed… struck down…" 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

    ' 13 ) >      @       -    ;    >  4     ;   %  %    %  %   %

 ;        5    %        % 4   ;    %  +  = @    (          ;                          8 ;   7    %        5      K ;                @  %              ;    ( (    ?    ?            ;    %  '  (    3           )     ?           -        ;              (           "  1  12-++ "The coming of the lawless one (Antichrist) will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,  and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

;                "   "  "     ! A.

"The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes." Psalm 19:7-8 , "For God is not a God of disorder but of peace."  I Corinthians 14:33 , "Hewrong, is the upright Rock, his and all32:4  his, and ways are just. A faithful God who does no andworks just isare he."perfect, Deuteronomy "When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone .."" James 1:13  

B.

"I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by." Ezekiel 20:25 , "Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?" Lamentations 3:38 , "This is what the Lord says; Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you." Jeremiah 18:11, and

"When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?" Amos 3:6  

 4                 6. "Out of the mouth of the Most High proceeds not evil and good" - is how Mr Joommal quotes Lamentations 3:38.

  3   "Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say: We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through. You have made us scum and refuse among the nations." Lamentations 3:37-45  

(       ?         @    L 

 

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      3  "… So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the desert, But I withheld my hand, and for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, Because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their fathers’ idols. I let them become defiled through their gifts – the sacrifice of every firstborn – that I might fill them with horror so that they would know that I am the Lord. Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In this also your fathers blasphemed me by forsaking me. Therefore say to the house of Israel: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their vile images?" Ezekiel 20:21,22-24,26,27,30

Then the word of the Lord came to me: O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does? Declares the Lord. Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions. But they will reply, It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart." Jeremiah 18:5-12 , and "Hear this word the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel – against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins. Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so? Does a lion roar in the thicket when he has no prey? Does he growl in his den when he has caught nothing? Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground where no snare has been set? Does a trap spring up from the earth when there is nothing to catch? When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets." Amos 3:1-  7  

/  >?             > 1(      ) "Take heed that you do not your alms before man to be seen by them." Matthew 6:1 

           6 >(        >>          ) "And glorify your Father, who is in heaven."

      

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     ;.            

     0        "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body."   Luke 12:4 , but in practice was afraid Himself, for we read: "After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life."  John 7:1   

%      *   *   !   "From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." Matthew 16:21  "I lay down my life-only to take it up again.  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord." John 10:15,17,18   "As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem."  Luke 9:51 (He knew what was waiting for Him there!)

 4 7   %    6     %  ) >?         >                 %      6       %   

 

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   "   4  )     My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death… My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me."

  * 

>F   8     > = 7        % .     %      "  7  @  ; /1)/$)  "The covenant you are to keep: every male among you shall be circumcised."   ; #)0  

   A  ) >8      7         >            7        -                ;     =                  ;      ;               

               9 7  9             ;      6 7 75  9    =      =     >     > K  9 7   E                   =          9 7       6     A   ;    .         ?        7 9               "Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace… For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love…   Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offence of the cross has been abolished."   Galatians 5:3-4,6,11

 4               ;)      ;        +! $    -   . =D       ;   9 7        %     @      ; 8       > >    ;                 - 'A 1,-123 3   1,-12 8                    @  ; 4  @        ? !        *     5 161+ "If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity."(and Deuteronomy 25:5 : "If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfil the duty of a brother-in-law." contradict each other. In the first passage a man is allowed to marry his brother's widow, and in the other it is forbidden. We find it incomprehensible that the critic has overlooked the fact, that the commandment in Leviticus 20:21 not to take a brother's wife in no way contradicts Deuteronomy 25:5, where the widow of a brother is spoken of.

#  8  5       6   /  ? "    7                  6   ?     '8   %   --  63 +     6         8  01)# 6      /)/,  "…there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out."  

 

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  > >       ;    > > 4                      1    5 5 >>      ) >          2  "Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the  @  Romans Romans 3:20 2 law."  'Galatians 2:16 3

 F       6 0)0/-00 0*  D 0)/0-/"    ) Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did…You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did… You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone. "… those who obey the law who will be declared righteous .."  "   

8                      = 7) “… all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.”

(          8                     8      (  4             5   @  ) "Abraham was justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar. You see that faith was active along with his works and faith was completed by works."

   >>            '      ;    % 3  >> >?>        ; 4 '>?           - ("  (  

  > ? #)#3 ,     "  # 172-+6  "Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver coins…"   

     6   H //)/0-/"                > >    7          ;     ;   .                          ;  %                     '4    /$-// /$-//3 3 8     01                 3     6        H                  ( ) >         >     6 8     >6>     %   5     H   5     6 ') >!   >3 2      >>   0)// ' 6     3.  ? 0)1 ' %     3 A     5                7   0)//                 > >   G    %               5   4                             & 4      @   G     A           6           /$    >>     ? ")0" 6        6 ,)#1  A   6) >F >F       >  4           <

What Can we Say to these Objections brought forth against the Bible?  

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   53        5 ' /0  /#   "0-"" "0-""3 3  IE                 "#$$-0$$$ "# $$-0$$$                  *$$                              >          4           >7  >       %        @                          4                    4                                                                     5       

Is the Bible a Filthy Book Marred with Obscenities and Atrocities?          >     =     >       >>               4                >>           "  /                   .  0          4                      ?    .      C !.                   6 '/23         6 %                    %                8         8           >>     6                4     %    >> >           >      %  >8>      8    4

           %    5+  %           >               >          7        8       '    3      5  8                                                @  ;   +   #  "When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord." The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, "There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. Now a traveller came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveller who had itcome to one him.who Instead, he took the ewe lamb that with belonged the poor and prepared for the had come to him." David burned angertoagainst the man man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity." Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I

 

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anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’" "This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel,’" Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord," Nathan replied, "The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground. The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them. On the seventh day the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, "While the child was still living, we spoke to David but he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate." David noticed that his servants were whispering among themselves and he realised that the child was dead. "Is the child dead?" he asked. "Yes," they replied, "he is dead."  2 Samuel 11:26-12. A somewhat similar situation is reported in Judges 19-21.  

 

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CHAPTER THREE

Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled

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        = )     ;    8.  %                '7 /#$$3   '7 *$$3 =  ;     6     .    ?   '%3  7 ';3  >  >        9  @      ;     ?       6 :         

Some Prophecies and Fulfilment regarding Jesus = M 1$$ 7 -  6   -)  "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times." Micah 5:2  

9 N ? 0)*1 "So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."   inn."  Luke 2:47  

= M 1$$ 7 -       5 )  "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." (= God with us) Isaiah 7:14   "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulder. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." " Isaiah 9:6  

9 N  /,-0"  "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfil w what hat the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" -which means, "God with us." (which means, God with us). Matthew 1:18-23  

= M #0$ 7 -       )  "Seventy weeks (of years, i.e 70 x 7 years = 490 years) are determined upon thy people (Daniel's people = Jews) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting

righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy (i.e. no more prophetic revelation added to the Bible after that), and to anoint the Most Holy (anoint = exalt, crown, dedicate). Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem (which at that time was destroyed and its inhabitants were captives in Babylon) unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks (49 years) and sixty-two weeks (434 years): The streets shall be built again, and the wall, even in troubled times."

*2       6  9       '7 *+#*0#3      0$     '9 0)/,3  **# 7    9   6                 *"*       ! ",          

 

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7  6      )  /  %       5                          '8      "#* 3  2.                5                 

"After the sixty-two ‘sevens’, the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed." (The "prince that shall come" is no doubt Titus, the Roman conqueror and son of Emperor Hadrian who, after the death of the Messiah, came and destroyed Jerusalem and, against his will, the temple, in AD 70. After that "desolations are determined" and lasted until this century!) Daniel 9:24-26  

= M 1$$ 7 -         )  "… your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped." Isaiah 35:4-5

9 N  /)0/. ? /2)/$. 6 ")/"-0/. D ")0/-0+ #)/-0 ,)/. ? /,)*$-*".  *)0"0* //)0-+ ,)/+-/1  "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."  Matthew 1:21  "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."  Luke 19:10   "No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven-the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that

 

 

everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands   condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." John 3:13-21  "But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God   presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunishedhe did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who  justifies those who have faith in Jes Jesus.". us.". Romans 3:21-26    

" Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we  have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we   now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God Romans 5:1-2   " Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus , because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.   Romans 8:1  " Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord, I want to see," he replied. Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God . God . Luke 18:40-43 " Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralysed, and he healed

severe pain, the demon possessed, those having seizures, and the paralysed, and he healed them."  Matthew 4:23-24  

When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?" Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have

 

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leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me." Matthew 11:2-6   " When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.  sick.  This was to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases."   Matthew 8:16-17

= M 1$$ 7 -     6))  "Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name. He made my mouth like a sharpened sword… I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation (Hebrew = Yeshua, the actual name of Jesus, when he lived in Israel) to the ends of the earth. This is what the Lord says – the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel – to whom was despised and abhorred by the nation… " Isaiah 49: 1-8 and many other passages

9 N  /)0/ -    6)  3 

"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,  because he will save his people from their sins."( Matthew Matthew 1:21 

K     7           8     6                ;    : 7) =         )

   4       ♦  7      ♦  7     Surah 19:19, Hebrews 4:15, I John 3:5, II Corinthians 5:21, I Peter 2:22, Isaiah 53:9, etc ♦   4     Surah ♦  8  4  ;  'Surah 4:171, John 1:1-2,14 ♦  8  (  ; ' Surah 4:171 ♦  8            : ♦

       ?         6     =    :) = M *,$ 7 -  6    6   )  "Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." Zechariah 9:9

9 N  0/./-2  " As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away." This took place to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, `See, your   king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "  The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David!"   "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Hosanna in the highest!" Matthew 21:1-9 

= *,$ 7 -     6 M) "Even my close friend, whom I trusted… has lifted up his heel against me." Psalm 41:9   I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" – the handsome price at which they priced me! (=the price of a slave). So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter." Zechariah 11:12-13  

 

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9 N  /*)/$-// /1-0/ *"-*+.  01)"-,   " Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over." When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me-one who is eating with me." They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, "Surely not I?" "It is one of the Twelve," he replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me. The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."   Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared. With him was a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders. Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: "The one I kiss is the man; arrest him and lead him away under guard." Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, "Rabbi!" and kissed him. The men seized Jesus and arrested him. Mark 14:10-11, 17-21, 43-46   " When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility." So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money." So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.” Matthew 27:3-8  

= M 1$$ 7 -  6   % >>) "I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting." Isaiah 60:6  

9 N 6 /,)00  "What do you think?" "He is worthy of death," they answered. Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ. Who hit you?" Matthew 26:66-67 " … one of the officials nearby struck him in the face."  John 18:22  

= M 1$$ 7 -         6: "… he had no beauty majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied, by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." Isaiah 53  

              M 7 /$$$) "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? … all who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads: He trusts in the Lord; let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him. Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast… open their mouths wide against me. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd,

 

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and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing." Psalm 22:1, 7-9, 13-18  

9 N 6 /,)"+-/2)"1  " Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." "What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release `the king of the Jews'?" They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king came of the out Jews!" struck in the face. Once more Pilate and And said they to the Jews,him "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!" As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!" But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him." The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God." When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,  afraid, and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin." From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar." When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).  Gabbatha).  It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. "Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews. But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered. Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified him, and with him two others-  one on each side and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.  Greek.  The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write `The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews." Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. "Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it." This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, "They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing." So this is what the soldiers did. Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty." A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The

 

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man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.  believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"   broken,"  and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced." John 18:36 - 19:37  

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Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay." Psalm 16:8-10  

9 N ? 0*)/-//  " On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,  tomb,  but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?  He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: `The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "  Then they remembered his words. When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.  others.  It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.  apostles.  But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense." Luke Luke 24:1-11

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9 N  /)+-//  " So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.  authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will After be my in was Jerusalem, and in alltheir Judea Samaria, and tohid the ends the earth."  he witnesses said this, he taken up before veryand eyes, and a cloud him fromoftheir sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." Acts 1:6-11

(  = M *,$ 7 -     8     6)  "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication., They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son." Zechariah 12:10  

= M /$$$ 7          6  (  ;  :)  "The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his One. us break their they their fetters… will proclaim theAnointed decree of theLet Lord: He said to chains, me, You aresay, my and Son;throw todayoffI have become Iyour Father. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession… Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him." Psalm 2:2-3,7-8,12  

Evaluation 9              8  5         8  ;      %                                 9              <

 

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The Evidence of Eye-Witnesses %  5   ) 4  =         9     >>  >>&        6   (                    %          8         -        (         =        7       ;  7 0#$-/$$   >>        5     -7   =              9     & 7  7          & 7      &                     8     4  ;            

;    G    8             =          5    A     C  ) " The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner ."  Acts 26:26  

  A   !  A            6) " Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the   help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him ."  Acts 2:22-24  

 4    6      6      %      A            4        6  ) " We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead-  whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.  tree. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Saviour that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."   Acts 5:30-32  

A      )   >    (> '     = 3                5        ;   8         ) " For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to   the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles." 1 Corinthians 15:3-7

       A      E           > >     G         :    < " We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honour and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."  We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.   And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:16-21 

     ;  ?      )  

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servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you." Luke 1:1-3  

     6       %       '   3     %                  '3 < : %   % & =        @          6 (   %    "The Bible was once upon a time the word of God: ... the present Bible can never by any stretch of imagination be called the inspired word of God ... faith demands total allegiance to the Bible with its faults, absurdities, everything. Reason, on the other hand, is loath to accept matters that constitute an insult to the human intelligence." (Please consider also the historic evidences on pp. 98ff.). 98ff.).

 4           >     >                       -      4          .                   8 K    

                                      4                  @ 8        @              4                           ; -         ;<

Some prophecies regarding the Jews      5    6                     8 7 /#$$       ) "If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands that I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock – the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out." "However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him." "The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the Lord will drive you. You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land. The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail! All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants for ever. Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

 

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therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. They will devour the young of your livestock andnor theany crops of your land herds until you are destroyed. Theyuntil will leave you no grain, new or oil, calves of your or lambs of your flocks you are ruined. They willwine lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you. Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess. Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods – gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. Among those nations you will find no response, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening?’ and in the evening ‘If only it were morning!’ – because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see." Deuteronomy 28:1-6, 15-21,, 36-55, 61-67  

 4    6              6   -             ' 3  9 AE   4&        

Summary of Jewish history showing the Fulfillment of these prophecies ?            8       7 /2"+ */0      ;    (  K   7        ) The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." Genesis 12:1-3 Notice                        

        8     6 4         1$    G        ;         *$$      ; /#)/"-/* /# )/"-/*      6    G 4       G  ;               ;       4       G                6 7              C             ;         *$                 >A  7  :>       *$      6    6    A ?                  6    *#$                6             C               (  A       (                 ; % ) ”Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me…” 1 Samuel 8:7

(                     

 

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(              (   *$      !    ;     *$        (      *$  !    (      %                         6          6      ( 7 21#    .   D       6  @    6    6              (        8     7 10/              6         7 +$+         6    9EE  7 #,1                        4    6     6              !                1$   .  6    6              6                @   5                 :           6  (  *!! #$          6    9EE 'M 7 +$#-#",3   6) For this is what the Lord says: "I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword. I will hand over to their enemies all the wealth of this city - all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon." Jeremiah 20:4-5 "This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years." Jeremiah 25:11 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. The sights you see will drive you mad. The LORD

will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone." Deuteronomy 28:33-36

8 7 /+,  G C  ( 5 A  G.      6.          6                     7 /+$-*$ 8 7 +" 6  @  D        D G      % ?    7 #         !  A         >  A>     '! 2)0*-013 5        8  6    .                (  .      G         G    9E              %     6  E  6        %       @   6   %   ;    ) ”Let his blood be on us and on our children!” Matthew 27:25

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9  ;     ! /$2+            >% 4>                   8 ! /$0$ 7   6  G          G   6  7  ?   % 4        6  G       % 88   6   +$ $$$              D 8  ! //,2       6    6             F 7    7 D  F  #$$     F 7           7 D                                 K     G 8  /010  7     6                    5E        G 8    6 /+#$$    G                 6  8 /"$+           6  6  :       /$$ $$$           D        8           >A>  

 

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      !   6             .                 (            8          /+,$      (   6                                  E        %       +$$$ $$$ 6             6           

             '        0$          8   3  6                            >> '         3    0 $$$ <    ) "Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing   heart. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life ." Deuteronomy 28:64-66   "The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their forefathers to possess, says the LORD." 30:3   "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: ‘He who scattered

 

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Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.’ For the Lord will ransom Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they ." Jeremiah 31:10-11  "Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth - everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made. Lead out those who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf." (although they see and hear!) Isaiah 43:5-8   To me the most inexplicable event of all is the     6  8        

      -    4 4       (  8  /2*, K -         

 

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CHAPTER FOUR

Islam Disagrees With And Denies Fundamental Biblical Teaching      ' '  /1 /133 8  )



>   -        7     6    ;                6 7 >

 4      8            4            -         7  8               9           E             ' ' "+3 "+3 4           ! %       ' '  *$3 *$3 4       ;                       =       8       ;        @  8 -                  7 ' =  9        6           ;   3   ++ >>     *$     / +$$           @   ) /    0   6  %       >>  %   ; "        5        6

Islamic objections to the doctrine of atonement  4  & 8     ;     %    7  7  %    4    :              % 4 ?       G        ;    @  ;       -   -          ;  ) “For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As god has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 2 Corinthians 6:14-16  

;    =     ' < ? *)03                 ;            '?  /-1 /+ 3 8       8  9           6          8                  ;               ;       @             @  ;            @      @     @      6  @     .        ;   %     @       ;     @                           '  (             ' %       5        3.       

  K '            3    -               

 

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:        >>     -D  -D '  3 ;     -                              A              @        ;              '  % 3                     "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9  

 4 ;        %     %      % 4 -  @  4  5 ;  %  4  ) "How can God do it this way and not that?"

 4      5    ;&                               4       8     ;                    6        ) "This doctrine gives mankind licence for the free and unbridled commission of sins. All one has to do is to have implicit faith in Jesus having given his blood with which the past and future sins of mankind have been washed clean. This is a most comfortable, convenient and easy doctrine to follow. It does not require any hard rigorous or practical form of worship from the believer. He must merely believe and have faith and his salvation is assured." A.S.K. Joommal

 4         - ;! !  )- !  . ) 7 %)        % (                        ;              > >   > >     >           >   8>                 8                   ) “All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.” Isaiah 64:6  

%          5              > >   &               >>   5      (                    8          ; -     > >     > >                  ;                                4               (    ;< "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved.. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it F  is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. or we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do .". Ephesians 2:1-5,8-10  

7          7       'B    3             9   ;  %      5            <

 

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 7             .        ;   @         "… without holiness no one will see the Lord." Hebrews 12:14 

 4     6   !  ?          >           > '         ?             8        ?                 3  5       6        >        7   G    >  4    7   7  K            7                 ) "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." Revelation 21:8 "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires." Galatians 5:19-24  

                 +        8     ) >         >  7         "For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: “The man who does these things will live by them." Romans 10:2-5   "Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified." Galatians 2:16  

9                    +4    8       @    "Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified." Galatians 5:4 -6  -6   Consider Abraham: “He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. All who on observing the law are underinathe curse, forofit the is written: “Cursedno is one everyone who does notrely continue to do everything written Book Law.” Clearly is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ. What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.

 

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What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator. A mediator, however, does not represent just one party; but God is one. Is the law,

therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe. Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:6-26  

             "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he? “Everything is permissible” - but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible” - but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others."

1 Corinthians 10:21-24

7   %    ;      "If you love me, you will obey what I command." John 14:15   "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another ." John 13:34   "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." John 14:23  

8       =   ) "Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: ”‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments ." Matthew 22:34-40  

7       5) "How can we believe that the heavenly God sacrificed himself for the sake of insignificant, sinning, puny men, who are of no importance whatsoever, compared to him? Such an idea is totally opposed to common sense and is against the laws of nature."

 4   5          '        <3                    ;   '/  6 *),3   %  %     %  % 4             ;  %   % 4         %  :       6            >>    @           =          > >     ) "And to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:19

 4     :   % 4 %  %     %< "Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged ." Hebrews 6:17-18  

          7        5     9               ;           ) "But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you ." Romans 8:10-11  (            

 

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.  ))   "  ) "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, you followed the ways of this world." Ephesians 2:1-2

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in which you used to live when

        .             ? !         @   -     6      7    %     )

"… he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me ." Matthew 26:39  

      (  %  6    ;  ;        %  %  ) “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death."

%  %   ) "Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

     ;   7 "And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground." Luke 22:44

 4            7     (   %      ; '>  >3                          4         %   >  > '(C 63         8    7          %    % =           8         % #)1) "During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears (Gethsemane) to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission."

8               (      >   >                      %             -  8   -    ) How can a righteous and holy God be forgiving and merciful?

   %  %        % %  %             ;       <        ) (   7         %         =                   =                        8  (         /$$                 4        < 8  (  :       4 & 8               @ 4         >?  (< %         <>      %    (    ) >4       =                         )  /$$ < D  @   > %       (            -        ( ) >4< -     8       8      <> %          ) >G             !   % <> ?    

 

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      %                  6 %  ;    %       @   %   %   %  '   3       @ 5                               ; %   %        D        7 "That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation ." 2 Corinthians 5:19  

                   8  ;  ;                8         4                          @   -  ?          

                   4            ;  %          G                  &               8                  > >     !(                    .  .!.! " .!.! ) %! *"         ; 9                 ;                       ) "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans 12:1-2  

 4              8     ;                  8 ;               !  6      & 8  @ ;                  ; %     -   -             ;      %                          ;                              6  %                       7     6    A >        > %   6                                              "They did not slay him, neither crucified him."

 6        E ;  %   @  (          %        6) "Recovered from his wounds the sepulchre and met his

after they had been treated, disciples secretly. It would

left have

been highly dangerous to reveal that he was still alive, since he was formally tried and sentenced to death by the Roman Government. If his identity had been discovered, he would have been rearrested and sentenced for a second time. How could his disciples even expose the fact that Christ was not dead, but very much alive? The Jews on the other hand, exultantly declared that Jesus died, because he was an accursed man and an imposter 'for he that is hanged is accursed of God', says Deuteronomy 21:23."

 

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       9  -  -    -    7 "The aim of the Jews in having Jesus crucified, was to show that he was an imposter and thus prove the truth of the Word of God. The disciples of Jesus did not know what to do or say; they were in a dilemma. An admission of his death on the cross involved a belief in his having become the 'accursed of God', but a declaration that he was alive, was most hazardous ... it was at this junction, that Paul's ingenuity came into operation and he devised a clever plan to which the disciples did not object, because it seemed the only way out of the predicament under the circumstances. Paul advanced the theory, that Jesus had undoubtedly been subjected to an accursed death, but since he himself was completely innocent, having taken on his own shoulders the burden of the curse for the sins of men, this did not constitute infamy, but was on the contrary, a very meritorious act. Thus the Christians now at least had something to say in reply to the Jews. This theory, however, originally formulated as an answer to the Jews, gradually developed into the doctrine of atonement as now preached by the Christian missionaries."

 4     !      6 5  8         A    >6  A> 4    )

"The Professor proves conclusively that the divinity of Jesus and the atonement are dogmas which owe their origin to Paul. 'Jesus and his Apostles,' the Professor says, 'knew nothing whatsoever of these doctrines.'" "Meander in his 'History of the Christian Religion and Church' says, 'that the doctrine of Atonement as it is believed by the Christian Church, was not definitely distinctly formulated until the twelfth century.' " "We also do not find any mention either the Talmud or the Torah."

of

atonement

being

made

the now and in

 4       < !. )  " ! ! (".+ (".+"" !    6! =!! )  !7 "7 !   7  ".+   <( ;!+   #' #' >!"!   )".  ! ! 0 )".   ..0  7 "   .+- (%! 7" ?  ."  "7  %-   (   7) !+!  ( 4(   !  +  %   ! %  3 " (  "!.!  +4 ! !+! ( 7!)  3 (! !.%  6! 6.  ! .)! (. +- 7 "" " @,   7  -!  6!9! " ;  !-"   @7    -!  7  -! " !" 7(  !. " !.! "  7%%  39! .% +!-   ..  @.  (.  (! ." 7- >7! ; .)  !  !.- ..7 6! ( %%   .!! (! "" ..!"  *" " 7.+  .!  ! A6! "+" ! +  .!   ( 7- 7.+%  .!  !   ! ( 6!" ! )- ( ! %   B '; ")/"3 C =+ (! "  !+ " .!   !   ("

6.% ! !. !!! "7! .++ .++! ! 1 ++ !  7!  ."7+% 6!!  2   "  .%! . ;0.!)..!) (  ")!! "  +  "%+! (. (  %  3 !  !! ?! !! ! !  %  !! " =! @!! 4( % 7  ; (" + ! # +!   C" ;!+ (. " "7 !"   %% % 7  +  6! ; (" + ."- ! " - .   <( ;!+ ”But wealso rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now

 

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received reconciliation. (or atonement)

  /+      ? '7 /#$$3     > 8  % >    /1)//    ) “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.”

8         87    !         6          %@@    G  ?                                   ; ?         -                 -                 ;                =  >          > =7(! $2 ##7#           6            7     5  4   5             4    0$)0,)  "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." Matthew 26:28   "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16  (See  (See also notes on "Son of God" pp. 93ff. ) "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world ." John 6:51 

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep… and I lay down my life for the sheep... No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. " John 10:11,15 and 18  

      =        8 #"    ) "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows… But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed… the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all… for the transgression of my people he was stricken…Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering… For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." 8  

        5       ) >4    6    7&>   ) "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit." Galatians 3:13-14 "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility." Ephesians 2:13-16  (i.e.  (i.e. hostility between man and God). "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good." Titus 2:11-14  

  5    ) "Has the sacrifice created a loathing for sin, or killed the tendency to commit evil in those who believe in Christ and partake of his flesh and blood?"

=      < 9 7           

 

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 -   7 8  ' '  /"$3 /"$3                    !:)      9       "You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness…   count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus… We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" from Romans 6 "Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ ." Romans 8:8-9 "You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13   "Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." Philippians 2:4   "… whatever is true… noble… right… pure… lovely… admirable… excellent or praiseworthy… think about such things." Philippians 4:8-9   "… clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another… put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12-15

     5      7                      -       -        ) "If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives." 1 John 1:10

%              4    7 &   @                         ;     7 < 8         9         7   7    ;    % 4< 8               ;      ;                        (   7     7   

       7      ) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God God weremade making appeal through Wefor implore Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. himhis who had no sin to us. be sin us, soyou thaton in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 

Islamic objections to the divinity of Jesus and his sonship   D %! @   D % =           =  /20/) "It should be clearly realised that Jesus did not claim in the Gospels to be the Son of God in a physical sense, such as the narrative of virgin birth suggests, nor did He claim to be the Son of God in a metaphysical sense, such as was required by the Nicaean theology. He claimed to be God's son in a normal sense, in the sense in which all human beings are sons of God, as standing in a filial and moral relationship to God and capable of acting on these moral principles on which God acts." "Dr. Rashdall, Dean of Carlisle, who presided at this conference, further threw a bombshell on the Christian world when he said that his reading of the Bible did not allow him to accept Jesus as God. Jesus, said the learned Dean, was man in every sense of the word and not God." ("The Bible: Word of God or Word of Man?" by A.S.K. Joommal).

  >>        %        &

 

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   7                        D % @  ! D     7                  8                      8         >> >(  ;>  >!  7>         ) Surah 112:3  112:3  "God neither begets nor is begotten." Surah

        ;   6 '  #)//23               (      @      >>      (           >  ;>         8   (         -  G         7   5 )      ) "I am a messenger of thy Lord (to announce) to thee the gift of a HOLY SON (our emphasis).' She (i.e. Mary) said: 'How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?' He said: 'So (it will be): Thy Lord saith, 'that is easy for me. And (we wish) to appoint him as a sign unto men and a mercy to Us!'" Surah 19:19-21  "His name will be Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, held in honour (or illustrious) in this world and the Hereafter."  Hereafter."  Surah 3:45 

8 ( /2        6 -  ;   :           >    > 4                % % ( (                      -   > > 6            6  5         )

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%       ( ( /2)/+-"#  %     ( ( *)/1/          (                         %   (  ;  ( ( *)/1/ %   4  ;  ( ( *)/1/             6 /)/-/*  %   '   A3   '  F 3  ##           )

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    ( ( 0)"+ 1)00-0"     ( ( 0+),0    ( ( 0,)/#-/+  6   ( ( "1)/*0 !   ( ( ",)0*0#    ( ( *1)/2 *,)/-0 "")"+-", 

%          ( ( ")*#  %       ;  ( ( *)/#,  %       @  ( ( *")+/  F    8I  1,-,$

             ) "O men! Here is a parable set forth! Listen to it! Those whom, besides Allah ye call, cannot create (even) a fly, they met together for the purpose!" Surah 22:73 

in if

 4     ;    ?          6) "I have come to you. with a sign from your Lord, in that I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's leave (permission): And I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and

 

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I quicken (make alive) the dead, by Allah's leave ... Therein is a sign for you IF ye did believe." Surah 3:49 

 4        6    '      3   :            ;        %  %         ;  %     !  %55) If God is absolute unity even within His own nature, then a question arises as to the nature of His attributes. Are these part and parcel of the essence of God, or are they outside of Him? If they belong to His essence, then we have One essence subsisting in ninety-nine qualities (in the case of Allah's attributes). The absolute eternal oneness of God must give way to manyness within Him. If, on the other hand, the qualities be regarded external to the nature of God then they will be nondivine. In that case attributing the beautiful names to Allah would amount to associating creatures with the Creator. It is the worst kind of blasphemy that is possible against God according to Muslim belief. Hence, the first alternative must prevail, i.e. one nature subsisting in many qualities within God ...

              ;                   ;              >    > #                2 2 '        5 >8       &>          %               -;E          ; 8              ;   % 8     ;             -;E          -        ;   @  7      @     7     4  (  ;       :   ;          ;& ;      %               % 4 =7(!   4  (  ;   (      .                '   %          :3     >    7          6      & 4      5  &      (  7   >>           ;   6   ")/+-/,   ;     ) “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For god did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stans condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”

  >>      /+//        

     8   ;      +%!9 '9+9 B    9%!9   B 3        < 8            @     () "… or as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out - those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned ." John 5:26-29   (The title "Son of Man" had been introduced by the prophet Daniel (BC 500) Chapters 7:13, 10:16. No doubt is left as to who this can be!)

      7   6    ) "For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God." John 5:18

                 

 

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7         7       ( % ) "… it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only ." Matthew 4:10          7    4       7     (<       ? /,)/2  6    5 ) "Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good - except God alone."  

     5      6 @          %     & “… but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human  

likeness.”  Philippians 2:7.  But we must view the situation in its context: The inquirer addressed Jesus as good rabbi' (teacher, sheikh). By implication Jesus said: "A rabbi is not good, but God alone! It is well that you call me good, but I am more than a teacher!"

      6 ) "By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me." John 5:30  

7                   5) "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Matthew 24:36    

"For he ‘has put everything under his feet.’ Now when it says that ‘everything’ has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all." 1 Corinthians 15:27-28  

8          (         7              : ) %          %  @               %           %      8  5        7   >(  ;>            ) Job 1:6 and 2:1 and Genesis 6:2   /      Job John 0   >  ;>  >  ;>           ;  John 1:12, 3:8, Ephesians 1:5, Romans 8:14, etc 

8        7        4    =          4      9  ) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him  all   all things were made; without him  nothing   nothing was made that has been In him  was   was that life was the Word light ofbecame men. The light shines in his the darkness, but made. the darkness has life, not and understood it. The flesh and made dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:1-5 "He was in the world, and though the world was made through him , the world did not recognize him . He   came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him , to those who believed in his name, he  gave  gave the right to become children of God." John 1:10-12   Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” " Luke 7:48-49  

"For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him… for by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible… all things were created by him and for 17 him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. " Colossians 1:19 and 16-17    …

"  but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word ." Hebrews 1:2-3   "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

 

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but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." Philippians 2:6-7  

  6 >       ?     .                7 '3 ;       >  >7 ' 3 ;     > :+! # '             3 "… Christ, who is the image of God." 2 Corinthians 4:4    

"  Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own  blood."  blood." Acts 20:28   "We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true - even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." 1 John 5:20 "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness…  " Titus 2:11-  14  

8   @    5         7 %            7   ) "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son." Revelation 21:6-7   Then he said to Thomas, (after the resurrection) “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed ." John 20:27-29  

 4   & %    ? 6  ; 7            %        -  <

" I and the Father are one.” Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” “We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God ." John 10:30-33  

7          %  @    %      %   8  %  @  ) “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have   seen him.”  Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?" John 14:6-10  

 4            '  ,13 ,13          6  )

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Jesus "who had no sin." 2 Corinthians 5:21 Jesus "He committed no sin." 1 Peter 2:22   "was without sin." Hebrews 4:15   In Jesus "is no sin."( 1 John 3:5  

        ( ( /2)/2      >  >   9 >>         %    &        .

Islamic objections to the doctrine of trinity ?        D                  .        .      4                            ; 4                (      ;   

            ;  8    ;  

 

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      @      >>   ) "By all rules of Mathematics, three times one equals three. But in Christian arithmetic three times one equals one ... We are told by the priests not to use our reason and trying to understand the dogmas of the church. So that is the crux of the matter. We are not supposed to use our god-given power of reasoning in order to understand that which we are asked to believe. Our belief in these doctrines must be blind, unquestioning, absolute! Whoever questions these beliefs, be it in all sincerity in order to understand them, is doomed to eternal damnation."

8      5          G                    ) "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you." ( Ephesians Ephesians 1:17-   ) 18  "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:16-19  

        5 4            7                  ;  8              ;                .                <                    - >     4    5) >8 6  ;                    &> ?     ) 8              - 4         & F   ) >4        &> 8 ) >:     -        <>  4 ;   7   %        4     5  8   7   ; 9 ;  7.       ;              ; >;  7     %<>  6! #  7    ) "The only reference to the Trinity in the Bible is to be found in 1 John 5:7-8: "For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement."

7                    7           7  9 '! "0#3         7   '(C 6     ) 4  ;   4  &3     9  (     7   7  9> 8       G P! "0+Q   P"+1Q   7           7          (       8       7  9   9  8          7       9            7                7     G 8               & 8         8  ) "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."   >;>       

   %   >;>   G    >G>    >;>  

 

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 G  G 4   >G>  & 8  >;>      0+  ) "Then Elohim said, 'Let us make man ..."

  7 //   ) "Come, let us go down and confuse their language"

 4  ( &  %  G %    & 8       & 9       % ( ;  %  (          in Deuteronomy 6:4ff   @  ;   in "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."

) >F   F  G              >      @     ) "The Lord our God is one Lord."   8 %     )  ) "Yahweh Eluhenu Yahweh echad."   ?    ) "The Lord our Gods, the Lord is one", or "a unity".     >>     ;     G   ) "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one (echad) flesh." Genesis 2:24

 4  E               8 8        @                ) "This is what the LORD says - Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God." Isaiah 44:6  

   "  I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the LORD has done for us - yes, the many good things he has done for the house of Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses. He said, “Surely they are my people, sons who will not be false to me”; and so he became their Savior. In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them… Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit . So he turned and became their enemy."   Isaiah 63:7-10  

      C E            ;)  

" Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." (i.e. ‘God with us’) (i.e. 'God with us'). Isaiah 7:14   " For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

 4         >4         ;>   <    >>  >>   % <  6    ;  6 ''#    5 ) "  I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” At this, they picked up stones to stone him."

 4&   >8 >  >F>    '   8 3  7          =        =      =                 7     )

  "  I and the Father are one ." John 10:30 ♦  "… You, a mere man, claim to be God." John 10:33   ♦  "  Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father." John 14:9   ♦  "The church has not a scrap of authority



for claiming that Jesus is

part of God." says Mr. Joommal.

 

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 !  "   Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed One." “Let us break their chains,” they say, “and throw off their fetters.” The One enthroned in heaven   laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his

laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, “I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill.” I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery." Psalm 2:1-9

          5                   )               %       % 0=         %      5                % 0=.                                   >   > 8     8                   %0=       ;  %  >>   ; A              7-:.          (  ;    (            % (   ;     %           F     ;  ;            (       :        8                 

Islamic objections to the crucifixion          7-8       :  7          9               ) "They killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not; nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself." Surah 4:157-158 

 4               ;      & '  #-+ #-+3 3 8                 6         5         (   6                %      )   "I am most akin to the son of Mary among the whole of mankind", and "I am most close to Jesus, son of Mary, among the whole of mankind in this worldly life and the next life." Sahih Muslim, vol. 4, pp. 1260-1261. What prompted a statement like this to be written down?

      %   6           ;    %     ( *              # %        6    @          % (                '       3     5   6                 6                  .    .  .   >   ;>   >(  ;>.  >       > '  ,13 ,13            7      %      

 

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              ;       6                7 7                  ( ")##  /2)"") >= 6 8     >             (  8 85 (  4      >       8     8      8       '3> 4    5)  -  -  < 8 6             4%G9  % & %   

     ! #2 #2  , @ =88 7       ' 3    6      ;            6  %  8                       =      >       >            = ) " Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, 5 smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed… For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken… For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." :4-6,8,12 Isaiah 53 :4-6,8,12 "… you lay me in the dust of death… they have pierced my hands and my feet… people stare and gloat over me… they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing ." Psalm 22:15-18

Secular history confirms the crucifixion  9   @            #$$$                                               9                          9  %           !          G       7                    (            8    -  '3           G                   7          < "Historians like W.M. Ramsay, Ed. Meyer and A.T. Olmstead, have protested vigorously against the excessive scepticism of some theologians in dealing with the historical writings of the New Testament." ( "The  ) "The N.T. Documents" by F.F. Bruce 

    !   ( "There are in existence about 5,000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament in whole or in part. The best and most important of these date back to somewhere about AD 350." "Perhaps we can appreciate how wealthy the New Testament is in manuscript attestation if we compare the textual material for other ancient historical works. For Caesar's 'Gallic War' (composed between 58 and 50 BC) there are several MSS (manuscripts), but only nine or ten are good, the oldest being some 900 years later than Caesar's day. Of the 142 books of the Roman Historian of Livy (59 BC - AD 17) only thirty-five survive; these are known to us from not more than twenty MSS of any consequence, only one of which, and that containing fragments of books iii-vi, is as old as the fourth century. Of the fourteen books of the 'Histories' of Tacitus (c. AD 100) only four-and-a-half survive; of the sixteen books of his 'Annals', ten survive in full and two in part. The text of these extant portions of his two great historical works depends entirely on two MSS, one of the ninth century and one of the eleventh. The extant MSS of his minor works (Dialogus de oratoribus, Agricola, Germanis) all descend from a codex of the tenth

 

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Century." "The History of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) is known to us from eight MSS, the earliest belonging to AD 900 and a few papyrus scraps, belonging to about the beginning of the Christian era. The same is true of the History of Herodotus (c. 488-428 BC). Yet no classical scholar would listen to an argument that the authenticity of Herodotus or Thucydides is in doubt because the earliest MSS of their works which are of any use are over 1,300 years later than the originals." "But how different is the situation of the New Testament in this respect! In addition to the two excellent MSS of the fourth century (the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus), which are the earliest of some thousands known to us, considerable fragments remain of papyrus copies of books of the N.T. dated from 100 to 200 years earlier still. The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, the existence of which was made public in 1931, consists of portions of eleven papyrus codices, three of which contained most of the N.T. writings. One of these, containing the four Gospels with Acts, belongs to the first half of the third century; another containing Paul's letters to churches and the Epistle to the Hebrews, was copied at the beginning of the third century (i.e. just after AD 200); the third, containing Revelation, belongs to the second half of the same century." ( ibid   ) ibid 

 4                  

  75             ;  6             D       G           D % 3-     G @        A      ' /+)13  ! //0 %        G        7 %                7                    .                  D@     7            A            <     7              %                           7                       G        '(3      7   ; '5 3     '  3                                '7        >     7>3 '   G        ; G ) D 43 6! ;.!    A       D G %  '

                  7       3   7                 ; : :   D  9    ! +* >  7>   >   7          A                 6         D         > 8           7          =          '3  % ;!   D  ! #0 %             6    0 7                  ' /#)""   "Thallus declares, in volume three of this History, the darkness to have been an eclipse, unjustified, as it appears to me."

 4    @   6 .    -        A :   7  -                               7         D 8       -7      

 

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   D              ' 0$    3        6   @           !     G 7 7 '! */-#*3        G                   %                  & =    9E< '3  !!     6       D  ! 1$ '   

    63       6  D        7   (     >5 > '! 2"3  >!  > '! 1#-123    D   5        8           9 ) A  7 % 7 : :   %    6     E   6 >    6    7>    -           6 ) "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the Vol. tribe18,of111:3 Christians, (i bid   ) so named from him, are not extinct at this day." "Antiquitates iudaicae", bid 

 4    A  7            A

        =           A       8         @           4                           -          ' 3                          >>   A    7              7    (                  <   7 B <      A                   6  (      >>             @        -    + 7 8   & ?  ) " After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem." Matthew 2:1

        %     * 7 4          0      & 7          & =           4    G        (         7       $   !       - @          7  6 C                /+$*        + 7 "In 1925 the German scholar P. Schnabel deciphered the 'papers' in Neo-Babylonian cuneiform of a famous professional institute in the ancient world, the School of Astrology at Sippar in Babylonia ... He came across a note about the position of the Planets in the constellation of Pisces. Jupiter and Saturn are carefully marked in over a period of five months. Reckoned in our calender the year was 7 BC!" "According to the Jewish tradition Pisces was the sign of Israel, the sign of the Messiah (Christ) ... Jupiter was alway thought of by all nations as a lucky star and a royal star. According to ancient Jewish tradition Saturn was supposed to protect Israel." Tacitus equates him with the god of the Jews ... "Since Nebuchadnezzar's time many thousands of Jews had lived in Babylon. Many of them may have studied at the School of Astrology in Sippar. This wonderful encounter of Jupiter with Saturn, guardian of Israel, in the constellation of the 'West country' of the Messiah, must have deeply moved the Jewish astrologers. For according to astrological ways of thinking it pointed to the appearance of a mighty king in the West (of Babylon) country, the land of their fathers. To experience that in person, to see it with their own eyes, that was the reason for the journey of the wise astronomers from the East." " The The Bible as History", by W. Keller  

 

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G C                       "An unusual influence which Jewish astrologers were said to have ascribed to this same constellation. Messiah would appear when there was a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the constellation of Pisces." ( ibid   ) ibid 

8  ;        " After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: "‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’” Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their   treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route ." route ."  

 4                  (            -     6               ) "Who is he, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

          ?  ; A   ) "Who is He, Whom even the stars report?"

           <        ;           C  C  < G    ;                        '( *)/#13    ;  6               6    %        ) ♦

 



 

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  %  7     #$$ 7                   .  %  >   >   =       .  .  7  %     .   ' 3        

               8                    5      /0)",-*$) " Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.” He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

7 ) >%=4  6       & 4    &          ) > 6 -          >           8        <  4   7            5           7  %     ( 9    6    :     "$$        

 

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                  :  ( '3   (   7    %         :  (   (  (           4      5   5       :                >  >        '>    >  >:    >        >  >:>  >3  % 2 >- !  >    >   >  0* 75    + 2 7 2 *!! 2 /0"! ' '2 ,+- ##$'$$ '2  D%! #' " 1( 

            +  6    "   :      %    >     >    (                   (       %             9  E4   6!  .

        G      G   ) >              8           =     G  8                8     > /!             ?          =  'M 7 0$$3    >                              ;       '      3  >      ; >   9    6    > 6!  .

Islamic objections to the claim of the Universality of Jesus          7 %   "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6  

          %       8  %     ;        8   7       )

"I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." Matthew 15:24;   "he will save his people from their sins." Matthew 1:21; (" His  ) His people" being the Jews  "These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel ." ." Matthew 10:5-6

%     ;   8   & 4  6 7    6&       *!!   "All nations of the earth shall be blessed"

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(  %  6  % ) "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth." John 16:12  

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But when he, the Spirit of

    A =      6      7        ; 7                ; "At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!” Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.” When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa. About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven. While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate. They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there. While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Simon, three men are looking for you.   So get up and godownstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them."

  7    A    A ) "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him. “We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen - by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name." Acts 10:1-20,34-43  

A       4        .  

   4                    -    6 7  %  4   (        -            8     %  7              %   5   %  8     %  7      D  %  ) "I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness… " Matthew 8:10-12  

 4 %     %  %    ; 7    ) "Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:18-20  

            ( 0/)2/)

"We made her and her son (Jesus) a sign for all peoples."

 

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CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER FIVE

Alleged Prophecies In The Bible Pointing To Muhammad

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   )                  )

 Argument One: "Jesus, son of Mary said ... 'I am indeed the Messenger of God to you, confirming the Torah that is before me and giving good tidings of a messenger who shall come after me whose name shall be Ahmad.'" Surah 61:6   

!        &            >  > 8  ;        >> 9    6 ; 7 /*)/+) "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever."

=                 7                      4          ;  6                    :           “The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”

8    5             % (       

 Argument Two:            ;     8        ?   (     (  .  !  + 1 3  .+ +  !"!  - ! ( +%   ! % "   F   % .         )                        6   ?  C  6 ,++-                8 > ,               ?   (    .      (    6.        A                     

(    5          F       <  8                A      A               '(  (3     A    ( A  /$$$    

 Argument Three:   (             ;    6 /)/2-0") “Now this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priest and Levites to ask him who he was. Heare didyou? not fail confess, freeely, amthe notProphet? the Christ. asked him, Then who Are to you Elijah? but He confessed said, I am not. Are Iyou HeThey answered, No. Finally they said, Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us.

 

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What do you say about yourself? John replied in the words of Isaiah the Prophet, I am the voice of one calling in the desert, Make straight the way for the Lord.”

    @                 7        > >         > >     8        >>   ;       %      ! /,)/#) "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever." Deuteronomy 18:15-19

  >>  6      ")/1-0") "Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer. Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you - even Jesus. He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from among his people ."

8     6  > >    ) "On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man is the Prophet.” Others said, “He is the Christ ." John 7:40-41 "Who do people say the Son of Man is?”   They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Matthew 16:13-16  

      A     7 A     ;          ,+- ' > ?         + +% ->   63   A      

 Argument Four:                ! /,)/#-00) "The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.” The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks   in my name, I myself will call him to account. But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.” You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him."

        )              ! ##2 '2   8      !   ) 4.1 

             .        -- 6     --        'G /,)/*-0+3.           

4.2 

         F   -- 6    F                      --.    

           4.3 

        .                

4.4 

 ?          G  >                    > (    

 

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                    4.5 

         A.  5     --        

4.6 

       .          

4.7 

 ?           7     .                   7    @   

4.8 

   @  .      @       6    

4.9 

      .      

4.10     -      .       

                  4.11           G     .     

           4.12   4          ) >(    <> - 

     ) >    ?    %      >            %  >!        > '> ?>  -%@ ( %E     ( H--!   ;  0/*-0/+3 7    ) 4.2  4.7 

        (    F           4                4          (    :  8   (     !             @   >    >&

4.8 

 6         6

4.9 

            %          *$    /$

4.10   4   > >     8          

 4    /+)/$/  0)/$+      >>  >> 'A //-/#33  >7  >  //-/# 4.11  9       G  6         

         6           G  /0"!   $ 4.12  !               

 4    @   * */ / *0 *# *+  *//          A *"          7                4                             -     -                 6                    -  .          6              >   > '    8  8       83   @  >  >        7 %                   )

         )

 

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  7     ' 8   @    3  G G /)2-/* 3

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=      ' G /)/#-/+00.  0)/"3 G 0)0-/$.  0)/"         G G 1)/$/20$.  ,-/0. /*)0/-00. /1)+-1.  ,)/*.         G ? 1)//.  /*)/"  



 

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        . 7    '8      1)0"  G 1)1.  *)/  3   3 '     > >  ( ' % ")0-#3   8      . 7       G. 8 #". 6 ,)"0-"+. D +)/,-00 ,)0  '  G      3   G. ; #)/



 

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CHAPTER SIX

The Gospel Of Barnabas     7      - >;  >   A  (           >>   >>          8   5      >;  >       '         ;  63              0$$$    A      (        7 '    <3   ;      9        ?  ( A < > ;  >        7 @               7   6    ;        =      ;     5                4      @)  

1. History  >;  > ';3    %  /1$2      8            >;>          8   I ; (       G  /1"* 8          >;>  (             (   8                8   (      '     (3 8     8        :       A ( I         :     (        >;  >    ;    >>  8 /2$1  ;    G  ?  ? D 8              ;     (    K            D ?-7  D 'A3   ;  G  /21"            8                     ;         9    ;      8  6

2. The Content =  ;   ;           7 =          ;         8    6  E)  6 7    (  ;   %  ) >     >          8  ; 7              6     ;  6        ; 75     ;            6 #7 " #7 .       7      %+ (        6      %  !    %   7          ;   %      '<3  '     3           

  ;         6

3. The Islamic Challenge "/      >;  >         >; !> 'A ; ! *20-*2#3 8    ;  @   7             A 6 '  3       ;    ;          ; .    8      

 

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 "0  8       !  A ( 8 ! *+#       %  A  ! *$0-*/1        ;    ""       >!   4 7>    ;  ! ",0

     >7  D>       7    ; !        '3  4    ;                   7    @   - >;>                 (         A     !  7 7                                E  4     @      ;  :           @ ;   ; ! "*       ;              7 ! *1,               ( '73  ) >F                  ;      > K   5           ) "Which I Matthew."

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Evangelist

(           ;                    ;          '3              :       '9 3              ! 0$$ !    % 8  88 A   6       7  D  ! ",0 K              7 :   ;    9           5 %      ;            5                                  ;    ;        ;                  

4. The Christian Answer           ;              9                        7           ;     5

4.1 External Evidence:                 '4% ;  23      ;    ; !      @      E     9                           ;) *//  */0 

 

9         ; !         ;               D     ;    .                ;   .      ;   -7                

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             >;  > :        ;     A ( I '! /#,#-/#,23        ) "... having accidentally met with a writing of Irenaeus (a Church Father) wherein he speaks against Paul, alleging for his authority the Gospel of Barnabas, he became exceeding desirous to find this Gospel"; and that God ... "made him very intimate with Pope Sixtus V. One day as they were in that Pope's library, His Holiness fell asleep and he, reaching down for a book to read, the first he laid his hand on proved to be the very Gospel he wanted. Overjoyed ... he scrupled not to hide his prize ... and on the Pope's awakening, took leave of him,

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