Tuesday, 20 February 2024

A response to the objection, the Qur’ān copied from apocrypha Gospels and is ignorant of the historical Jesus

 

The NT mentions not everything related to Jesus is documented

 



 

Scholars mention how historically “inspired” Books and writings within the Bible were lost.






Hence Qur’ān mentioning something about Jesus not found in the present Bible, doesn't necessitate it's false As the Philosophers say, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of Absence” Scholars Admit the Qur’ān didn't copy from the Infancy Gospel, but it's the other way around.

 



 

Moreover, The only two surviving manuscripts date from 1299 AD and the 15th/16th century in Arabic.





 



The Scholars they say, there were no Christian groups to have copied the Qur’ān from.

 





Even the Bible, wasn't translated at the time of the Prophet , as acknowledged by many scholars.











"the Gospel that the Qurʾān confirms is not the Gospel as Christians recognized it in the Qurʾān’s own day" The Bible In Arabic pp.74 (Sidney H. Griffith)


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In the Eight and Ninth century the Bible started translating.





20th century greatest Textual Scholar, Bruce Metzger, mentions likewise.

 





If the Qur’ān copied the Bible, it'd have copied the Mistake as well, The Bible Mentions Pharoah not with regards to Moses, but at the time of Joseph as well, Qur’ān on the other hand mentions King in relation to Joseph, and Pharaoh at Moses's time.

 









Archeologists mention, “Pharoah” wasn't used before 1,500 BC and is Anochronistic, but rather “King” was used. The Qur’ān didn't “copied” this mistake, but rather corrected. Alḥamdulillāh









Jeffrey J. Bütz mentions how the Islāmic understanding of Jesus is in line with Jesusʼ original first-century Jewish followers.





Ebionites, the earliest followers of Christ Jesus all rejected his pre-existence and divinity They rejected Paul as a liar, Apostate, enemy of Christ







The New Jerome Biblical commentary admits, Jesusʼ message of abiding by the Torah contradicts Paul. Mattew and James abided by Jewish Christianity which was defeated by Paulinism... Later re-born as Islam.





Epiphanius reveals that these later Nazarenes were, in fact, the very same Jewish converts who directly inherited their church from the Apostles in first-century Jerusalem. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I (Sects 146) (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)











James Tabor a Professor of Early Christianity says, The “Christian faith” was originated by Paul. Not from Jesus, Peter, John, James or any other apostles. Infact the version of Jesus and the apostles was quite opposite to that of Paul. This is the lost forgotton Christianity.







Bart Ehrman says, Christian leaders in Paul's time, considered his views to be a corruption of the true message of Jesus.





Another Scholar says, Paul is the First ‘Christian’ Heretic and his Teachings are a flagrant deviation from the ‘original’ or ‘Pure’ form.





 

William Winwood Reade says, The Christians of Judea, who had faithfully followed the customs and tenets of the twelve apostles, were informed that they were heretics... The single Deity of the Jews had been exchanged for the Trinity.





It is clear that just prior to the second century, Jewish Christianity had been in “the comfortable majority, as it was in the first generation of disciples and in the end of the New Testament period.”





Regarding this common white-washing of history, the great Anglican bishop R. P. C. Hanson writes:







So in conclusion, The Qur’ān didn't copy from the Bible or Gnostics The Qur’ān corrected the Bible The Qur’ān knows very well about the historical Jesus, and his original followers, as admitted by the Scholars.

 

Here is a paradox of world-historical proportions: Jewish Christianity indeed disappeared within the Christian church, but was preserved in Islam. —Professor Hans-Joachim Schoeps, religious historian and philosopher.





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