Answering Muslims with Meekness This Saying is True Answering Muslims with Meekness

Cretans A “prophet of their own” – Titus 1:10-14 “This testimony is true” Thus, sometimes false prophets get something right Sometimes it helps to know what the false prophets have said At least to use to convince the opposition

Destruction of Jerusalem New Testament AD 70 600s Destruction of Jerusalem

Quran versus Muslims Quran claims Bible NOT corrupted Muslims Claim Bible corrupted Dilemma: Muslims can believe NEITHER the Quran NOR the Bible

Quran Did not recognize a corrupted Bible in the 600s Thus, all corruptions have to be demonstrated to have occurred AFTER the 600s But, this cannot be proven true

Quran Torah - "We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers," (Sura 2:87). Psalms - "We have sent thee inspiration, as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him: we sent inspiration to Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms,"(4:163). Gospel - "It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong),"(3:3). No claim it was all changed and corrupted

Quran "And in their footsteps We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah," (5:46). Thus, Muslims must believe THAT guidance and light Otherwise, they do not believe the Quran

Is Quran Correct Here? "Rejected were the messengers before thee: with patience and constancy they bore their rejection and their wrongs, until Our aid did reach them: there is none that can alter the words (and decrees) of Allah. Already hast thou received some account of those messengers," (6:34). Thus, the Law of Moses and Gospel of Jesus could not be altered Yet, modern Muslims do not believe this message to Muhammed “This saying is true”

Is Quran Correct Here? "The word of thy Lord doth find its fulfillment in truth and in justice: None can change His words: for He is the one who heareth and knoweth all," (6:115). "For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present and in the Hereafter; no change can there be in the words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme felicity," (10:64). Thus, if Bible was corrupted, the Quran is wrong If the Bible was not corrupted, the Quran is wrong “This saying is true”

Value in Knowing Their Testimony Shows that up till 630 AD no one thought the Bible had been corrupted The Quran is right on this point The modern Muslim is wrong This dilemma may give leverage to opening their mind and saving their soul Love demands that we try to save the souls of those who “know not what they do.”