Objection · Case 10 · Islam

Every one of these has a scholarly Muslim answer, and pressing them looks like the proof-texting Christians resent when it is done to the Bible. Isn’t this a double standard?

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Response

The double-standard worry is fair, and it is why these are offered as questions with the Muslim replies alongside, not as verdicts. The deeper point is consistency. Muslims raise exactly this kind of question about the Bible under the heading of corruption. If the Bible’s difficulties are fair to examine, so are the Qur’an’s, and the honest move is to hold both texts to one standard rather than shielding either.

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This objection is to Surah 5:116 and 19:28.

Surah 5:116 has God ask Jesus whether he told people to take him and his mother as two gods besides God, framing the Christian error as worshipping Mary. Surah 19:28 addresses Mary as sister of…

Under Claim 12: The Qur’an’s statements about Christian belief and history are hard to square with the record: it describes the Trinity as God, Jesus and Mary, and addresses Mary the mother of Jesus as the sister of Aaron.