Many egregious situations of violence based on religion or belief are taking place in contexts that are not currently recognized by the Security Council as threats to international peace and security. All of this should not give a Muslim much assurance that they are reading, or listening to, in Arabic, the exact words of Allah. Muslim women, however, may not marry non-Muslim men. The fact that a book may be a work of beauty does not mean that it is the inspired word of God. This makes it clear that it cannot be the final word from the God of the Bible. When the evidence is objectively looked at, it becomes clear that the Scriptures have been transmitted throughout history with amazing accuracy. The text of the Old Testament as well as the text of the New Testament has been transmitted with such accuracy that we can be confident we are reading the same thing as what was actually written.

While the Old and New Testament were divinely given, the teaching of the Quran is the final word on all spiritual matters. While the Quran claims to be the final word of Allah, it does not correctly reflect the truth of Scripture. When confronted with contradictions between the Quran and the Hebrew or Christian Scripture, the Quran claims that these older revelations were corrupted by Jews and Christians. Indeed, it is impossible to consider the Quran as the final word from the same God who has revealed Himself in the Scripture. Indeed, there is nothing in the Quran to indicate its divine status. Indeed, it is argued that no human could compose such a literary masterpiece. He also abandons the notion of objective and eternal truth and replaces it with truth as a human improvisation. We find no objective evidence that the Quran is divinely inspired. Thus, the Quran makes inaccurate claims about both Jews and Christians. Therefore, the claims of Islam with respect to the Bible are simply untrue. These are the claims Muslims make for the Quran. To begin with, there is no exact text of the Quran in existence. On the other hand, the writers of the New Testament were either eyewitnesses to the events they recorded, or they recorded firsthand testimony of others who were there.

He was a Cameroonian preacher who slammed the government, something which led to his arrest in Nigeria in 1975, yet by 1972 many people followed him across society, ranging from the elite to Koranic students called almajiral or gardawa and unemployed migrants. People today can read the Bible with the confidence that nothing has been added or subtracted. While religion can be destructive, it has brought much good to our world. The German Roman Catholic priest and ethnologist Wilhelm Schmidt (1868-1954), however, brought anthropological expertise to bear in a series of investigations of such nonliterate societies as those of the Tierra del Fuegians (South America), the Negrillos of Rwanda (Africa), and the Andaman Islanders (Indian Ocean). Celtic and Germanic religion was described by Roman ethnography as primitive, but at the same time as pure or unspoiled compared to the so-called urban decadence of Rome. Time after time it mistakenly attributes something to Scripture that is not there or contradicts its plain teaching. It contradicts both the New Testament and the Quran! It also contradicts the Quran by saying Muhammad was the Messiah.

Since the Quran was written some six hundred years after the life of Christ, it certainly is in no position to give authoritative statements about what did and what did not happen in the first century A.D. In addition, the Gospel of Barnabas, which supposedly gives a more accurate view of the life of Christ, is nothing but a fraud. Learn more about the concept of chi and what it has to do with Taoist philosophy on the next page. There is more. Recent ancient manuscripts of the Quran have surfaced in Yemen. Finally, the literary beauty of the Quran is often appealed to as a sign of its divine origin. Add to this there is no evidence that it is divine. The idea that the Quran may be a literary masterpiece has nothing to do with establishing divine origin. Thus the text of the Quran is anything but certain.