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The Bible

 

• How does God reveal Himself?

• God's Word (The Bible Speaks for itself)

• What are the Gospels?

• Dispelling Muslim Myths about the Gospel

• Why so many Bible Translations?

• Fundamental Doctrines of the Bible

• How to Read the Bible

• Divine Revelation Outside the Bible or the Qur'an?

• Themes for the Diligent

• The Case for Christianity

• The Gospels As Historical Sources For Jesus,The Founder Of Christianity

 

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Muslim questions directed towards the Bible come in different categories ...

 

• Inspiration and Canon (Which book are or should be in the Bible?)

• Preservation of the Text (Textual Criticism)

• Bible Versions

• Interpretation of the text (Bible Commentary)

• History, Archaeology and the Bible

• Bible, Faith and Science

• Errors and Contradictions in the Bible?

• Miscellanea

Inspiration and Canon

 

• The Old Testament Apocrypha

• The New Testament Canon

• The logic of canonization

• On the Formation of the NT Canon, and the OT Canon

• Gospel Dates, Gospel Authors, Gospels Freedoms

• The Content and Extent of the Old Testament Canon

• Lost books of the Bible?

Bible Versions

(See also: Qur'an Variants & Qur'an Versions)

 

• Differing versions of the same story in different accounts given by the Qur'an

 

 

Unsorted Miscellanea

• What about the Pornographic Language in the Bible?

• Inappropriate language in the Bible? : dog, swine, ass, and cannibalism

• Believing all of God's revelation

• The history of the Gospels is very different from the popular Muslim myths.

• Bible Corruption?

• A "Muslim style" argument for the authenticity of the Gospel

• The Muslim who-when-where-how-what-why-multi-problem

• Who wrote the gospels?

• Who wrote the Gospels in the New Testament?

• Early Muslims did not believe in Bible Corruption

• Evidence from the early Christian Hymns

• Did the Roman empire distort the New Testament documents?

• The Case for Christianity also deals with historicity and authenticity of the Bible

• Gospel according to Mark Was Probably Written around AD 50

• Further reasons why the Bible is authentic

• The Silence of the Scriptures: An Argument for Inspiration

• On the Samaritan Pentateuch

• Did Christians burn the books of their opponents? and is what we have today just the position of those who won and the "true Christians" disappeared as a persecuted minority?

• Pseudonymous Epistles?

• The language(s) of Jesus and the New Testament

• Common logical fallacies in the Muslim arguments on Bible and Qur'an.

• Consonants and Vowels In the Hebrew Script (intro how Hebrew is written and this explanationn itself also shows the extreme care with which the Bible text has been copied)

 

• What the Qur'an says about the Bible

• Muhammad and the Torah

 

• Does "Bias" render the NT unreliable?

Further links of interest:

• The New Testament Documents and the Historicity of the Resurrection

• Manuscript Evidence for the Bible (by Ron Rhodes)

• The Bible's Manuscript Evidence

• How Old Are the Most Ancient New Testament Manuscripts Known Today?

• The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism

• Rightly Interpreting the Scriptures

• Are the Biblical Documents Reliable?

• Why you can trust the Bible

• Journal of Biblical Accuracy

 

• What about the variant readings in the Qur'an manuscripts?

 

• Why So Many Bible Translations? [versions of translations, not versions of Bibles]

• Comments on "accurate" Bible translations

 

Muslims have done very little original scholarly research into the Bible, but they are increasingly using the material produced by the atheists and liberal Bible scholars. Therefore, it is no longer enough to respond to the classical misunderstandings and attacks but we also need to present answers to the topics usually rather to be found on the atheists agenda. On these issues we will mainly present links to other sites since this is not really the main focus of "Answering Islam".

 

• Science and Faith

• History, Archaeology and the Bible

• Fulfilled Prophecy: Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible

 

• Gnosticism and the Gnostic Jesus & The Gnostic Gospels: Are They Authentic?

• Is the Gospel of Thomas Reliable?

• The historical reliability of the gnostic gospels

• Doubting the Gospel of Thomas

• Do the many "contradictions and errors" in the Bible not prove that the Bible is corrupted?

• What about the Jesus Seminar?

• Many more valuable articles...

Other liberal and sensationalist authors quoted by Muslims:

• Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls)

• Hugh Schonfield (The Passover Plot)

 

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