22/12/2024
The prophet Muhammad was born on 29th August 570 AD
The books of the New Testament were written between 50 to 100 AD
This means that the New Testament Books alone and the stories of the birth of Christ, crucifixion and death have been in existence for more than 500 years before the prophet Muhammad was born.
Read it again: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS
When was the Quran written (read revealed)?
Answer: Between 610 to 632 AD. It was finally compiled by different companions of the prophet to form a single book as we have it today by 650AD
What this means is that the New Testament books existed about 600 years before the Quran.
Read it again: SIX HUNDRED YEARS
But somehow, somehow, the stories recorded in the bible on the birth of Christ, the birth of John the Baptist, the trials of Christ, the death and resurrection etc, Angel Gabriel had to appear to prophet Muhammad 600 years later to reveal to him the same story, adding lots of variations and differences.
And somehow, somehow, we are meant to accept the story of Jesus as told by the man who claims to have received the story from Angel Gabriel 600 years after the death of the said Jesus. We are to throw away the story told by those who witnessed and lived with him and accept the story of a man born about 570 to whom many scholars agree was an illiterate.
I am not saying this as a Christian, I am saying this as a curious mind.
For a moment, pretend you are not Christian or Muslim or anything. For the purpose of learning and objectivity, do the following:
1. Check if the dates I presented above are facts of history. If yes. . .
2. Do we have any evidence of the appearance of Angel Gabriel narrating to the prophet Muhammad all the stories about Jesus who existed 600 years before him? After all, it took about 23 years for the Angel to finish delivering his message to the prophet. Because if it is the same Angel Gabriel in the Bible and the Quran, the two stories must tally. For if not, it is either one is wrong