Objection · Case 10 · Islam
The Injil the Qur’an refers to is a single book given to Jesus, not the four Gospels. Christians don’t possess the Injil in the Qur’anic sense, so the endorsement doesn’t apply to the New Testament.
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Response
This is a common Muslim reply. The historical problem is that there is no evidence any such single book ever existed or was known to Christians at any period, while the four Gospels were the Gospel Christians possessed in Muhammad’s day. If the Qur’an commanded seventh-century Christians to judge by the Gospel, it was commanding them to judge by the Gospels they had. The reply is possible, but it requires positing a lost book with no historical trace, and the burden of that is worth noticing.
About this exhibit
This objection is to The Qur’an endorses the earlier scriptures.
The Qur’an tells the followers of the Gospel to judge by what God revealed in it, and it tells doubters to “ask those who read the Scripture before you.” This treats the Torah and the Gospel as…