The Holy Spirit Guide To The Bible

If Muhammad claimed to stand in the line of Abraham, Moses and Jesus, there is a straightforward test worth making: compare the conduct attributed to Muhammad in Islam's own sources with the earlier biblical standards he claimed to confirm. . Marriage and sexual ethics Muhammad's marital life differed substantially from the Christian model around Jesus' teaching. Sahih al-Bukhari records Muhammad having nine wives simultaneously . The New Testament, by contrast, requires an overseer to be the “husband of one wife” (1 Timothy 3:2).  Bukhari also records Aisha reporting that Muhammad married her at six and consummated the marriage when she was nine . Whatever arguments are made about seventh-century marriage customs, that is what the canonical Sunni hadith collection reports. Then there is Zaynab bint Jahsh . She was not Muhammad's biological son's wife, as is sometimes claimed. She was married to Zayd ibn Haritha, Muhammad's adopted son . After their divo...

  Historic Perspective of Islam & Christianity  Islam presents itself as the restoration of the religion of Abraham. But when we compare the biblical historical tradition with the religious world of pre-Islamic Mecca , an important question emerges: where is the historical bridge connecting the two? Two Different Starting Points The Bible presents a continuous sacred history: Abraham → Isaac → Jacob/Israel → Moses → David → Prophets → Jesus → Apostles These people belong to an identifiable Israelite/Jewish religious tradition centred geographically on Canaan/Israel and, eventually, Jerusalem. Islam introduces another line: Abraham → Ishmael → Arabia → Mecca → Kaaba → Quraysh → Muhammad But Genesis never says that Abraham or Ishmael built the Kaaba, instituted the Hajj, circumambulated it, used the Black Stone, ran between Ṣafā and Marwa or established the stoning ritual at Mina. Nor do we possess an independently documented genealogy covering the enormous historic...

When we examine the origins of Islam, an interesting question emerges: where did Muhammad's stories about Abraham, Moses, Mary, Jesus and the prophets come from? Islam's answer is straightforward: they were revealed by Allah. But Muhammad's own contemporaries apparently proposed another explanation—and remarkably, the Qur'an itself preserves their accusations . This deserves examination without assuming either the Islamic or Christian conclusion beforehand. “These are tales of the ancients” One of the clearest passages is Qur'an 25:4–5. Muhammad's opponents accused him of producing something invented with the assistance of other people: “This is not except a falsehood he invented, and another people assisted him in it.” The following verse records an even more specific accusation: “Legends of the former peoples which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon.” — Qur'an 25:4–5 But the importance here is that the pa...