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Christianity Compared with Islam

Join us in an exploration of Christianity and Islam side-by-side to discover the truth.

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One God

Hear, Israel: the LORD is our God. The LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5

Scripture is abundantly clear that there is one and only one God. The three different persons of the Trinity are one not only in purpose and in agreement on what they think, but they are one in essence, one in their essential nature. In other words, God is only one being. There are not three Gods. There is only one God. (Grudem)

the Wrong Mary

O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.

Quran 19.28

Miriam is the sister of Aaron and Moses

All three are the children of Amran (Exodus 6:20)

In Luke the Father of Mary is not Amran, but Heli (Luke 3:23)

And she lived 1400 years after Aaron and Moses

Quran: Jesus didn't die on the cross

And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.

Quran 4.157

According to most Muslims, Jesus didn't die on the cross

Forgotten Surah of the Quran

Abu Harb b. Abu al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari sent for the reciters of Basra. They came to him and they were three hundred in number. They recited the Qur'an and he said: You are the best among the inhabitants of Basra, for you are the reciters among them. So continue to recite it. (But bear in mind) that your reciting for a long...

Muslim 1050

The Word became flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1

See also: John 1:14

The Qur'an misunderstands the Incarnation

The Originator of the heavens and the earth! How can He have a child, when there is for Him no consort, when He created all things and is Aware of all things?

Quran 6.101

The Qur'an mistakenly challenges the incarnation on the grounds that Allah has no wife ('partner') and doesn't need to procreate as we do. This shows a significant misunderstanding in Islam about Jesus and his incarnation. Christ is not created, nor procreated.

Muhammad married Aisha when she was six years old

Narrated `Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).

Bukhari 5133

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