Brentwood Church of Christ

As we have already observed, the New Testament was written on the basis of eye-witness accounts. Over 4,000 times the Bible claims to be inspired and it repeatedly claims that inspiration to be verbal. The Bible words were confirmed by miracles performed by both Jesus and the apostles and believed by both believer and unbeliever (John 11:47). The Bible is unique in its continuity, its lack of contradiction, its brevity, its honesty about the failings of its major characters, and its prophecies.

Dudley Ross Spears writes, “The Koran was collected into book form after Muhammad died. Since he is described as practically illiterate, he wrote not one word of the book. It was compiled by his close companion, Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr became the much disputed first Caliph (successor to Muhammad). Bakr found scraps of Muhammad’s thoughts written on palm leaves, white stones, and even bones. The majority of it came from the memory of those who had committed the prophet’s words to their own memory…The proof that the Koran is a revelation from God is nothing more than human testimony. Muhammad did not claim to work miracles, or have any supernatural powers. The only basis for believing the Koran is a divinely inspired book is the testimony of an ex-shepherd boy who claimed that the angel Gabriel appeared to him to reveal the Koran as the last of all of divine revelations. The same arguments against such pseudo-revelations as The Book Of Mormon, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society can be made against the Koran. It is nothing more than a collection of sayings that have no real continuity, theme, or organization. It falls into the same class as all subjective claims that God speaks to certain people in various ways.” (Gospel Anchor, June, 1991, page 10 and July 1991, page 11).

It is important to note that the Koran accepts the revelations given to Moses in the Pentateuch, to David in the Psalms, to Jesus in the Gospels, and to Mohammed in the Koran. This is a contradiction of what Jesus said in the gospels. Jesus placed His seal upon all the Old Testament (Luke 24:44), and upon the apostles writings of the New Testament, even stating that they would be given all truth (John 16:13). The apostles later wrote, “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8). Further, the apostles claimed that their writings were complete and therefore not to be added to (Jude 3; II Peter 1:3; Revelation 22:18-19).

The most glaring contradiction is the fact that the Koran accepts Jesus’ words in the gospels, and yet Jesus in the gospels claims to be the Son of God and equal with God (John 10:30-36; 11:27), which is denied by the Koran.

Concerning the Book Of Mormon, suffice it to say that the Book of Mormon actually denies that it is inspired of God (I Nephi 1:3; 19:6; Jacob 1:2; 7:26; 3 Nephi 8:2; Ether 5:1; Mormon 9:32).