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Saturday, June 21, 2014

The Qur'an and the Cross

Nothing in the Qur'an suggests its author had even the slightest knowledge of the New Testament centrality of God's redeeming act in Christ on the cross. The author knew nothing of Paul's epistle to the Romans or the book of Hebrews and their in-depth case for and teaching about the Messiah's redeeming death. The author seems blissfully unaware of the evidentiary mountain that substantiates the crucifixion. And yet with a fee seconds of oral recitation, the Qur'an places itself, and all who would believe in it, in the direct opposition not only to the Injil (Gospel) but also everything history says on the subject. The question must be asked: Who, truly, is following mere conjecture here? Those who were eyewitnesses on the Hill of the Skull outside Jerusalem? Or the author of the Qur'an, more than half a millennium later?

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