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@setst777 I guess the above puts paid to our conversation. Many thanks for your time. Blessings.

‘Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people, ‘‘Take me and my mother as two gods (ilāhayni) alongside Allāh’’?’ he will say: ''May You be exalted! I would never say what I had no right to say……”’ (Al-Ma’ida: 116). We have to understand what is meant by the word ‘ilāhayni’ in the phrase: ‘Take me...

You reference the following verses from sūrah ‘Al‘Imran’: ‘The angels called out to him, while he stood praying in the sanctuary, “Allāh gives you news of John, confirming a word from Allāh (‘bikalimatin mina l-lahi’). He will be noble and chaste, a prophet, one of the righteous.”’ (39). And...

@setst777 As-Salāmu ‘alaykum. I apologise for the long delay. You write: ‘Regarding similarities between verses, even in our Christian Scriptures, we see similarities between verses, but we must not neglect the subtle, but potentially striking, differences as well that give the verses...

@setst777 Thank you for your courteous reply. I doubt neither your honesty nor your integrity. Allāh (subḥānahu ūta'āla) tells us of the annunciation of the Prophet John: ‘There and then Zachariah prayed to his Lord, saying, “Lord, from Your grace grant me virtuous off-spring: You hear...

You write: ‘I don't believe that the Qur'an teaches anywhere that a person, other than Messiah, is the Spirit from God. Show me where ‘rūḥ’ is applied to any man other than Messiah.’ How about this: ‘Such is He who knows all that is unseen as well as what is seen, the Almighty, the Merciful...

Let’s return to what you wrote in Post 20: ‘……the Qur'an teaches that Lord Jesus was……the word of God made flesh.’ (My emphasis)., Any Christian reading this – and I was one for over sixty years – might suppose that the Qur’an supports the author of the Fourth Gospel, who claims that ‘The...

@setst777 ‘People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about Allāh except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of Allāh, His word (‘wakalimatuhu’), directed to Mary, a spirit from Him’ ((Al-Nisa: 171). In answer to...

By way of clarification: ‘People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about Allāh except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of Allāh, His word (‘wakalimatuhu’), directed to Mary, a spirit (‘warūḥun’) from Him. So...

You forgot to strike out the 'Falsely of course'.

Yes.

Exactly. These foul creatures think it right and proper to murder anyone - anyone at all - who does not share their perverted view of Islam. They would regard the Muslims of Christchurch as apostates, worthy only of death.

'We're going to need a bigger boat!' Wasn't that 'Jaws'?

The quotes I offered belong to a debate that has been going on between Christians, former Christians and others for over a hundred years. I don't know of any Muslims who are mythicist (there might well be). Most Muslims would accept as true any New Testament statement that does not contradict...

Against the claim that Yeshua (ʿalayhi as-salām), is an invention based on pagan myths Bart Ehrman writes: ‘I think there is a good deal to be said for the idea that Christians did indeed shape their stories about Jesus in light of other figures who were similar to him. But I also think that...

Hi. Thank you for your kind remarks, and my apologies for the delayed reply. Yes, an Arabic word can have a range of meanings, depending on its context. Concerning your question: You should know that according to the Catholic Church there are grades of theological certainty; the highest of...

Abdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib

Here are the verses again (with an important Arabic word inserted – and emphasised): ‘And so for breaking their pledge, for rejecting Allāh’s revelations, for unjustly killing their prophets, for saying: “Our minds are closed” - No! Allāh has sealed them in their disbelief, so they believe only...

I am a forgetful Muslim. Thank you for pointing out my lapse. Posts have now been amended.

So what? He is applying the methodology of historical criticism - studying, comparing and commenting upon the source material (which he is well qualified to do). What we have to do is address his arguments. If we wish to disagree with him...and to make our disagreement public...then we have to...