QURAN VS BIBLE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I) INTRODUCTION

A) WAS JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD?

1) THE TESTIMONY OF THE QUR'AN

2) THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY

3) THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE IS ACTUALLY A COLLECTION OF NUMEROUS EYE WITNESSES GIVING HISTORICAL TESTIMONY

4) THE WRITTEN HISTORICAL TESTIMONY OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE

a) CORNELIUS TACITUS (born A. D. 52-54)

b) LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA

c) FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS (born A. D. 37)

d) PHLEGON, A FIRST CENTURY HISTORIAN

e) LETTER OF MARA BAR-SERAPION

f) JUSTIN MARTYR

g) THE JEWISH TALMUDS

5) HISTORICAL TESTIMONY FOCUSING ON THE RESURRECTION AND NOT ON SOME PHILOSOPHY OR ETHIC IS SO UNIQUE AS TO BEAR WITNESS TO THE VALIDITY OF THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION

6) EYEWITNESSES AND THE ABSOLUTELY CONSISTENT ACCOUNTS AND THE COMPLETE LACK OF CREDIBLE REFUTATION OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS VALIDATES THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION AND THE WRITTEN ACCOUNTS OF THOSE EVENTS

B) THE CONDITION OF MAN IS TOTALLY DEPRAVED

1) THE TESTIMONY OF THE QUR'AN

2) THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE

3) THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY

C) ABRAHAM'S SON OF THE PROMISE IS ISAAC NOT ISHMAEL

1) TESTIMONY OF THE QUR'AN

2) TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE

3) THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY

D) JESUS CHRIST IS THE UNIQUE SON OF GOD

1) THE TESTIMONY OF THE QUR'AN

2) THE TESTIMONY OF THE BIBLE

E) IF THE BIBLE IS THE HOLY WORD OF GOD EVEN AS THE QUR'AN TESTIFIES, THEN COULD NOT GOD HAVE PRESERVED ITS MESSAGE THROUGHOUT HISTORY?

F) THE NATURE OF GOD HE IS ONE GOD AND THERE IS NO OTHER

1) TESTIMONY OF THE QUR'AN FALSELY ACCUSES THE BIBLE, CHRISTIANS & JEWS OF BELIEVING IN POLYTHEISM

2) THE BIBLE ACTUALLY TEACHES MONOTHEISM A TRIUNE GOD OF THREE PERSONALITIES IN ONE GOD

TRINITY

II) MANUSCRIPT ANALYSIS

A) THE QUR'AN'S MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE

(1) Sammarkand and Topkapi MSS Kufic and Ma'il Scripts

(2) Talmudic Sources in the Qur'an

B) THE BIBLE'S MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE

(1) New Testament Manuscript Copies

(2) Available Manuscripts

(3) Versions or Translations

(4) Lectionaries

(5) Early Church Father's Letters

III) DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS

A) THE QUR'AN'S DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE

(1) Doctrina Iacobi and 661 Chronicler

(2) Mecca

B) THE BIBLE'S DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE

(1) Laws of Hammurabi

(2) The Dead Sea Scrolls

(3) Discoveries from excavations at Nuzu, Mari and Assyrian, Hittite, Sumerian and Eshunna Codes

(4) Inscriptions of Hittite civilization

(5) Horites discovered as a group of warriors also living in Mesopotamia during the Patriarchal period

(6) the sixth century's East India Inscription

(7) Armana tablets

(8) Ebla tablets

(9) Mari tablets

(10) Nuzi tablets

IV) THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

A) THE QUR'AN'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

(1) The Qibla

(2) The Dome of the Rock

(3) Nevo's Rock inscriptions

(4) The Qur'an

B) THE BIBLE'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

1) Abraham's name appears in Babylonia as a personal name at the very period of the patriarchs

2) Abram mentioned by Pharaoh Shishak

3) The Beni Hasan Tomb

4) The doors of Sodom

5) Joseph's price as a slave was 20 shekels

6) Joseph's Tomb

7) Jericho's excavation

8) Archaeological excavations on Ophel

9) Pavement found in 1929 bearing Paul's name

10) Inscriptions found which use Meris to describe divisions of a district

11) Inscription from Antioch mentions Quirinius as the governor of Syria during the birth of Jesus

12) 19 inscriptions have been found that make use of Politarchs to denote the civil authority of Thessalonica

13) Romans used Praetor to describe a Philippian ruler instead of duumuir

14) The Delphi Inscription

15) Conclusion

V) CONCLUSION

A) THE QUR'AN

1) The Jews still retained a relationship with the Arabs until at least 640 A D

2) The Jerusalem and not Mecca was more-than-likely the city which contained the original sanctuary for Islam

4) The Dome of the Rock situated in Jerusalem was possibly the original sanctuary

5) The Muhammad was not known as the seal of prophets until the late seventh century

6) The earliest we even hear of any Qur'an is not until the mid-eighth century

7) The earliest Qur'anic writings do not coincide with the current Qur'anic text

B) THE BIBLE

1) Little has been lost of the original

2) The text is reliable and has the authority of the Word of God

3) Ongoing discoveries corroborate the Bible

C) SUMMARY