Aelex wrote:Free Rhenish States wrote:Do you wonder why? Because it existed in the first century, if there is no Bible earlier than from the 4th century, then how can they prove something like that?
Nohow. And this goes both way, you don't have a proof that it existed, but you don't have a proof that it didn't exist, either. We Muslims have the Quran and believe it existed, regardless.
Now, I hope you know that while there was no Bible (as in the compiled Gospels and the Old Testament), it's an historical fact that said Gospels were all individually written from the 1st to the 2nd century so I really fail to see how that's proving anything there.
And while I have no problem with the Devil's proof in general, this particular use seems very dubious to me. If you have no further proof of the existence of a Gospel than a claim in a book that was written six century later by a source of another religion living far away and without access to any documentation on the subject while it was never mentionned even once in all the others direct christians sources neither before nor after that said claim was made, then I hope that you see no problems with me dismissing this claim of a Gospel of Jesus existing as baseless.
Exactly. You got no gospels from anything earlier than from the third century, so you can't neither dismiss nor prove the fact that it existed. You simply can't, whereas we our religion is definite proof for us.
"Me"? Aelex, did you forget something?
We're not trying to prove anything to you, we never did, so either you are proving that the Gospel of Jesus didn't exist to us Muslims, or the argument we have now is pointless, because again, you can't prove the fact that it didn't exist simply because you don't have the original gospels.If we accept that Islam has nothing to do with Christianity and Judaism, that don't lead us at all to think that Mahomet didn't wrote the Coran (I really don't see where this non-sequitur come from) and even less to think that God might have had anything to do with writing it.
Rather, if we follow this train of thought, that lead us to think that since Islam has no link with God's revealed religions that are Christianity and Judaism and in fact is completely contradictory of them despite reclaiming itself as being their "successor", then Mahomet was a false prophet, Allah is not God and Islam is an heresy at best and a sect at worst.
If Muhammad (saw) wrote the Quran and based it off the Bible (which I disproved many times here), it shouldn't contradict Christianity and Judaism at the very least. One simply rules out the other, therefor God wrote it.
What makes you think Islam has to have links with the religions we never recognized? We recognize all the Prophets and we preach the true monotheism and we restored the law, we just couldn't care less Christianity and Judaism have another opinion.


Because I don't think you even understand what I'm talking about. Islam doesn't have to originate from Christianity and Judaism simply because these religions derived from Islam of Jesus and Moses respectively, and if we originated from these (false) religions, then we ourselves would have been false. So following this line of thought, Muslims don't need to worry about Christians and Jews claiming our Prophet is false. At least, we recognize all Prophets, regardless of their ethnicity. And yes, when you try to base something off something, you try to make it as similar to the source as possible, so against this bacgkround, such extreme difference between Islam and Christianity and Judaism prove the other.