1. Answering Muslims with Meekness
This Saying is True
Answering Muslims with Meekness

2. Cretans A “prophet of their own” – Titus 1:10-14
“This testimony is true”
Thus, sometimes false prophets get something right
Sometimes it helps to know what the false prophets have said
At least to use to convince the opposition

3. Destruction of Jerusalem
New Testament
AD 70
600s
Destruction of Jerusalem

4. Quran versus Muslims
Quran claims Bible NOT corrupted
Muslims Claim Bible corrupted
Dilemma: Muslims can believe NEITHER the Quran NOR the Bible

5. Quran Did not recognize a corrupted Bible in the 600s
Thus, all corruptions have to be demonstrated to have occurred AFTER the 600s
But, this cannot be proven true

6. Quran
Torah - "We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers," (Sura 2:87).
Psalms - "We have sent thee inspiration, as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him: we sent inspiration to Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms,"(4:163).
Gospel - "It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong),"(3:3).
No claim it was all changed and corrupted

7. Quran
"And in their footsteps We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah," (5:46).
Thus, Muslims must believe THAT guidance and light
Otherwise, they do not believe the Quran

8. Is Quran Correct Here?
"Rejected were the messengers before thee: with patience and constancy they bore their rejection and their wrongs, until Our aid did reach them: there is none that can alter the words (and decrees) of Allah. Already hast thou received some account of those messengers," (6:34).
Thus, the Law of Moses and Gospel of Jesus could not be altered
Yet, modern Muslims do not believe this message to Muhammed
“This saying is true”

9. Is Quran Correct Here?
"The word of thy Lord doth find its fulfillment in truth and in justice: None can change His words: for He is the one who heareth and knoweth all," (6:115).
"For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present and in the Hereafter; no change can there be in the words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme felicity," (10:64).
Thus, if Bible was corrupted, the Quran is wrong
If the Bible was not corrupted, the Quran is wrong
“This saying is true”

10. Value in Knowing Their Testimony
Shows that up till 630 AD no one thought the Bible had been corrupted
The Quran is right on this point
The modern Muslim is wrong
This dilemma may give leverage to opening their mind and saving their soul
Love demands that we try to save the souls of those who “know not what they do.”