Chapter 1: According To Historical Sources, The Gospel Has Been Corrupted Over Time
Christians Will Not Have Abandoned Their Faith by Admitting the Possibility That the Gospel Has Changed
Many of our Christian brothers overreact on the subject of the Gospel having changed over time and never accept any such idea.
They regard this as a sort of "renunciation of their faith": It is of course understandable for Christians to react against claims that their faith has become corrupted. However, in order to establish whether this is something that should never be mentioned and whether it might represent a renunciation of faith they need to reflect a little, look at the history of Christianity and reexamine all these in the light of the Gospel.
It is important to reiterate that the Gospel is also sacred to us as Muslims. We therefore have no desire for it to have been changed and misinterpreted. Yet this has happened, as we are told of it in the Koran. We therefore need to look at the evidence for this distortion and at historic events. Of course, this does not mean discounting the Gospel entirely. The original of the Gospel has been preserved down to the present day. It is currently concealed, and will be absolutely discovered by God’s will. The important thing, therefore, is to evaluate the Gospel in the light of the Koran in order to identify its true pronouncements and to think in a manner compatible with reason and good conscience.
However, there is one other matter needing to be known and reflected upon regarding the four Gospels currently used by our Christian brothers:
What you will be reading in this book is not deductions or claims made by Muslims. On the contrary, what the book says is all based on Christians’ own sources.
Material concerning the history of Christianity that has previously been set out in detail in our book Jesus (pbuh) Is Not the Son of God, But a Prophet of God is merely set out here under brief headings as a reminder:
The Spread of Christianity and the Origin of the Belief in the Trinity according to Christian sources
- When we look at the earliest Christian documents and communities we see that Jesus (pbuh) taught nothing different to the Prophet Moses (pbuh) or the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on the subject of the existence and oneness of God.
- After Jesus, Christianity was spread by the disciples. They preached in places where monotheistic beliefs prevailed, particularly the Middle East, Jerusalem, Antioch and Urfa [Edessa]. Since these regions are those where prophets appeared, they turned to Christianity very quickly since the inhabitants were already familiar with monotheistic belief.
- The belief in the Trinity, which did not exist before, finally appeared long after Jesus as Christianity spread to regions where Greco-Roman paganism predominated.
This is the true account: there is no other god besides God. God – He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
(Koran, 3:62)
(Koran, 3:62)
The reason is that the Christians who had converted from paganism in regions such as Alexandria in Egypt, Greece, Italy and Anatolia began to build a Christianity under the influence of their former beliefs that they called the Trinity.
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