Purpose of the Bible vs. Quran Inconsistencies
The ultimate purpose of the Lord God in the Bible is so that every human can have a personal relationship with their Creator. God does not only exist according to scripture but He is personally involved in the lives of HIs people.
How Has God Personally Revealed Himself to People vs. Allah
In the Quran, Allah says in (Al Quran 24:35) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.
(Al Quran 7:143) And as soon as his Lord unveiled His glory to the mount, He crushed it into fine dust. This is figurative by Musa (alaihi salaam), to which Allah did agree and unveiled the Hijab (Veil) to reveal a tiny portion of His Tajjalli (a very small ray of light) to a huge mountain.
Allah (swt) says (Al Quran 6:103) No human vision can encompass Him, whereas He encompasses all human vision: for He alone is unfathomable, allaware.
The only one to have seen Allah (swt) while being a resident of the earth was none other than the leader of mankind and leader of all Prophets & Messengers, Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wassallam). A man that could not read or write. Plus, no manuscript found today by Muhammad as proof.
In fact the Quran had 37 different versions and between the 37, there was over 60,000 different versions that didn't agree with each other.
The only one to have seen Allah (swt) while being a resident of earth was none other than the leader of mankind and leader of all Prophets & Messengers, Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu alaihi wassallam). only when he traveled to the heavens during the Isra Wa’al Mira’aj event (Night Journey & Ascension).
The Lord of the Bible, 1 John 1:5 also says, 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness.
Since God Wanted to Dwell among His Creation, He created Adam and Eve. It says that they were good (Genesis 1:31). But within their goodness was the ability to sin – which they did. God gave free will to all men. The human free will as it relates to Eve’s ability to be deceived. They had a God conscious until the Fall then Self-conscious.
Allah is only defined by His name. No one has ever seen Allah.
Adam and Eve, before the fall, Adam and Eve were clothed with light, because God covers Himself with light as with a garment (Psalm 104:2) and because the Lord Jesus, in His transfiguration, was similarly arrayed (Mark 9:2-3). Did they see God?
In Genesis 3:8-9 "They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
After the fall, the Lord went looking for them. Adam said to God that he was naked. The Lord in vs. 21,21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
He covered them. The only “skin” available was the skin from humans (Adam or Eve) or from an animal because they were both created by God as “good.” Moreover, because God had already declared the animals that He made to be “good” (Genesis 1:24-25).
Noah
God revealed Himself to Noah and told him of the impending Flood.
So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth" (Genesis 6:13).
Abraham
God revealed Himself to Abraham on a number of occasions. God initially called him out of his own country. Allah seems very distant and to hear, must have the leaders tell you and explain the Quran to you.
The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you" (Genesis 12:1-3).
Because of the many encounters Abraham was called a friend of God. Does Allah call you friend of God? No, In the Islam faith, Muslims have never seen him nor do they have relationships with him face to face.
Muslims are totally dependent on the names that describe Him. Compassionate, Merciful, and Loving. All three of those names require an object. You have to be compassionate to someone. You have to be merciful to someone. YOu have to be loving to someone. Where is the object to Allah's compassionate, Merciful, and Loving? Where was Allah compassionate, merciful, and loving before Adam and Eve? Can any of you Muslims answer that? If God is one, how can there be any relationship? There is no possibility that any Muslim can be made in His image. Those names made no sense until Adam and Eve.
As Christians, since I am made in His image, then I know I can be compassionate, merciful, and loving. Muslims cannot. Genesis 1:26-27. The God that created me is also relational. He wants to dwell amonst us and did through the Godhead of God the Son. Allah is dependent on Adam and Eve for his name.
How Could God have a son?
Quran 5:116 5:116. And on Judgment Day˺ Allah will say, “O
You Muslims believe that our God would have had to marry Jesus' mother. The Bible does not believe Mary is the mother of God.
The Trinity = Triune God
Can God be one but three simultaneously?
Say it like 1 x 1 x 1 = 1.
Ask Muslims they can define God - definitions of who he is - 99 names for Allah. In Genesis 21:26-27 we are made in his image. Let us make man in His image (singular). We are in God's image. We also have that relationship.
God cannot redefined in natural terms. If he could that would make him natural and not god at all. We can agree that God in his utter perfection is unlike any created being. Since God is utterly perfection then it is not impossible for him to be multi personal but yet one being. His nature is not like ours. We are human and is our being yet distinct from one another. I am a person, singular, human singular, that's what I am. Because I am human and a person does not make me two humans, but one person.
In Christianity, we believe in one God. we understand from scripture that God is multipersonal and not unipersonal. Three persons - the word became flesh in Christianity. In the Quran, the word is the Word of Allah. Is the Quran distinct from Allah? Or is the Quran allah and allah the quran? Allah is distinct from His word. Can you separate Allah's speech from Allah? No.
So the Word became Flesh in Christianity while the Quran became a book in Islam. Allah is considered one. He and his word is distinct and eternal because his speech cannot be separated from him. He is eternal and his word is eternal. The Father and His Word that became flesh is one.
The spirit now that which he breathed into adam or Mary. He breathed it because it came from him. It is part of him. Is there any part of Allah that is created? So, what do we have in Islam? We have Allah, the Quran, and his spirit. One, yet distinct.
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For example, we are one living person, we are composed of a body, soul and spirit. All these individual living parts make one body are different from one another. The body is not the soul, the soul is not the spirit. The spirit is not the body. All together are one living being. If we are created in the image of God, then it makes since that God, is multiple living parts together into one that are all alive. The Father is not the son, the son is not the father, and the holy spirit is not the father. They are all together are one that are the living god, the philosophical view of understanding the godhead 3 in 1.
Where in the bible does it prove that the father, son and holy spirit are all one. and that Jesus is God.
Isaiah 63:7-10
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindness. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Angel - Malak - messenger - He also suffered on their behalf for all of their sins just as we saw in verse 9. We can conclude that this is not Muhammad.
What the Surah teaching 35:18 No one can bear another's burden. If a heavily laden one should call another to carry his load, none of it shall be carried by the other, even though he be a near of kin. (O Prophet), you can warn only those who fear their Lord without seeing Him and establish Prayer.
Isaiah 63:10 vs. 10 the holy spirit that was grieved.
Psalms 78:5 "He decreed statutes for Jacob
and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach their children,
God the father talking to Moses on the mountain, Mt. Sinai and appointed the law.
vs. 40 "40
How often they rebelled against him in the wildernessand grieved him in the wasteland! - they grieved the holy spirit as in Isaiah 68:10
3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”
Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.” This confirms that the messenger Malak is God. Because he has exercised his authority by removing sins. Who else does he give authority to remove sins from others?
John 8:10 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 “No one, sir,” she said.“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Matthew 9:2 "2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.”
Luke 7:47-48 '2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” This angel Malak - messengers - bears the name himself - authority to forgive sins. He is Christ.
He does not just have the characteristics of God but He is God.
Daniel 6 - Darius throw daniel in the lions den, but God, saved Daniel.
Daniel 6:26 “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.
“For he is the living God
and he endures forever;
his kingdom will not be destroyed,
his dominion will never end.
27 He rescues and he saves;
he performs signs and wonders
in the heavens and on the earth.
He has rescued Daniel
from the power of the lions.”
Daniel 7:9New International Version
9 “As I looked,
“thrones were set in place,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow;
the hair of his head was white like wool.
His throne was flaming with fire,
and its wheels were all ablaze.
New International Version
A Prophecy Against Egypt
19 A prophecy against Egypt:
See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
Deut 33:26 "Deuteronomy 33:26
New International Version
26 “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides across the heavens to help you
and on the clouds in his majesty.
Psalm 68:33New International Version
33 to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens,
who thunders with mighty voice.
Psalm 104:3New International Version
3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot
and rides on the wings of the wind.
It is described as God who is who who rides on the clouds.
Daniel 7:13 This son of man is God.
Who is Jesus exactly? Jesus refers himself as son of man. approximately 80 times in Matthew, Mark, Luke and JOhn.
Mark 14:61-62New International Version
61 But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.
Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”
62 “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Jesus confirms his deity by confirming himself in Ps. 110 and Daniel 7 that we
14:61 blessed - eulogetos - one who is worthy of being praised and blessed. Much like the word Pelah in Hebrew - is only used for God. Caiaphas, the high priest, He is asking him if he is eulogetos. The one who is being praised as God is.
Jesus responds I am -
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Isaac
Isaac, the son of Abraham, received personal revelation from God.
That night the LORD appeared to him [Isaac] and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham" (Genesis 26:24).
Jacob
Jacob had personal visits from God on a number of occasions.
There beside him stood the LORD and said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying" (Genesis 28:13).
Joseph
The Lord personally spoke to Joseph in a dream.
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more (Genesis 37:5).
Moses
God appeared to the deliverer Moses on numerous occasions. Once he spoke to Moses in the burning bush.
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up (Exodus 3:2).
In this revelation God reveals himself as a person.
Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, "I AM has sent me to you' (Exodus 3:14).
God talked with Moses as one talks to a friend.
The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent (Exodus 33:11).
Gideon
The Lord appeared to the judge Gideon.
Now on the same night the Lord said to him, "Take the bull of your father and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it" (Judges 6:25).
Samuel
Samuel, the prophet and judge, had a visit from the Lord when he was a young man.
It happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place. Now his eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see well, and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was, that the Lord called Samuel; and he said, "Here I am" (1 Samuel 3:2-4).
David
God personally appeared to David when he was running from Saul.
Then David said, "O Lord God of Israel, your servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account. Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down just as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, I pray, tell your servant." And the Lord said, "He will come down" (1 Samuel 23:10,12).
Elijah
When he was running from King Ahab, God spoke to Elijah the prophet in a still small voice.
When he was running from King Ahab, God spoke to Elijah the prophet in a still small voice.
The word of the LORD came to him, saying, "Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan" (1 Kings 17:2,3).
Isaiah
The prophet Isaiah received a revelation concerning the holiness of the Lord
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me" (Isaiah 6:8).
New Testament Examples Of God Revealing Himself
In the New Testament we also find God revealing Himself to individuals. They are as follows.
The Life Of Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the eternal God who became a human being. When Jesus was here on earth, He personally spent time with His disciples as well as with a number of other people. Apart from the gospels, the New Testament records God personally speaking to the following people.
Paul
The Lord personally spoke to Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus Road. At that time he was converted to the Apostle Paul.
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" He asked, "Who are you, Lord?" The reply came, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting" (Acts 9:4-6).
God personally appeared to Peter in a vision to show him that Gentiles (non-Jews) were to be allowed in the New Testament church.
Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat." "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean" (Acts 10:13-15).
The Bible records the Lord speaking to the believers at the church in Antioch.
In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them" (Acts 13:1,2).
John
When the Apostle John was on the Isle of Patmos the Lord revealed Himself to him.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to His servant John (Revelation 1:1).
Consequently, in both testaments, we find the personal God revealing Himself to humanity.
Summary
The Scripture testifies that God has revealed Himself personally to a number of different people on various occasions. In the Old Testament times he appeared to such people as Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, Samuel, David, Elijah and Isaiah.
In the New Testament we find that God became a human being in the person of Jesus Christ. While here on earth He personally spoke to multitudes of people. After His Ascension into heaven, Jesus spoke to certain individuals on special occasions. They include Paul, Peter, and John.
This gives further evidence that God has a personal interest in the lives of human beings.
