Introduction 6 Position of this Study 7

The Blasphemy of the Quran

It should be apparent by now that the Quran not only seeks to provide a new set of rules for its followers, but to associate itself to the Bible as a continued work of God, thus giving itself even greater credibility and exalted status.

To ensure that the Quran and Mohammad attain such elevated status, fundamental truths of Christian belief must be destroyed in their eyes. Muslims are taught very early that Jesus Christ was not the person the Christians said he was and many of the facts about his life and birth are given a counter narrative.

Jesus was not Crucified

As all Christians should already know, the fundamental basis of the faith is the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection after 3 days. In order to further reduce the significance of Jesus in the eyes of their followers, the Quran seeks to provide an alternative narrative:

Surah 4:157

And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.
As can be seen in the above quote, the writers of the Quran are essentially suggesting that Jesus was somehow not actually killed on the cross, but it just “appeared” to be so. They insinuate that the person on the cross was a “stand in” and therefore there was a conspiracy among certain Jews to make it look like the Messiah had come, when in fact it was a clever hoax.

While this book is not intended as a tool for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity, it is worth noting that Islamist apologists will speak from a what they see as a very sure belief that Jesus was not the Son of God and that he was not crucified. They have been taught that the Bible is corrupted and only the Quran is the true word of god (Allah).

My emphasis of this fact here is that often a conversation with a Muslim on this subject will be extremely difficult because everything they have been taught in their lives reinforces the exalted nature of the Quran. Merely quoting Biblical scripture to them is like shooting bullets at a tank!

There seems little point in providing scripture references to support the Christian view at this point, simply because the whole of the New Testament is the reference!

God did not have a Son

This next issue shows blasphemy, hypocrisy and contradiction in the Quran.

Having attempted to reduce Jesus to a mere conspirator in a great hoax, then the Quran attempts to destroy the idea that God could in fact have a son at all.

Surah 4:163

 Lo! We inspire thee as We inspired Noah and the prophets after him, as We inspired Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon, and as We imparted unto David the Psalms; 
In the quote above, the Quran attempts to tell us that Allah and God are the same. Therefore, everything we have all learned about the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Spirit) from the Old and New Testament must hold true.

Yet:

Surah 4:171

O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not "Three" - Cease! (it is) better for you! - Allah is only One God. Far is it removed from His transcendent majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender. 
Here “Allah” says Jesus was a mere messenger. We are instructed never to speak of God in the sense of being three and denies that God has a Son. Within the space of just a few Quranic verses, it blasphemes and contradicts itself, showing a complete lack of understanding of God as taught throughout the Bible (Old and New Testaments).

Psalm 2

Why do the heathen rage,
and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath,
and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my king
upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree:
the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son;
this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me,
and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;
thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings:
be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and ye perish from the way,
when his wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
As we can see from the example of Psalm 2, there is much said about the Son of God.

Genesis 6:1-4

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
In this quote from Genesis 6 we see the idea of sons of God in a different context. Unlike many other references in the Old Testament, the first part is not a prophetic quote about the Messiah, but speaks of the offspring of God. Yet there is a reference to His Spirit one day becoming flesh, which is prophetic of Christ.

John 5:25

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
John 10:36-38

Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
John 11:4

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Matthew 11:27

All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
The above quotes from the New Testament give reference to Jesus as the Son of God either directly or by equivalent.
By looking at scripture we can see very quickly that the Quran in not a continuation or completion of the Bible, as it claims. At the very least it is in direct contradiction in many places. It shows the writers to have only a surface understanding of Christianity, but just enough knowledge to attack the most important doctrines.

The Quran, by its very nature of being opposite to the accepted Word of God is blasphemous in the extreme.