In The Name Of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Extracts from IS THE BIBLE GOD’s WORD? By Ahmed Deedat

CHRISTIANS CONFESS
Dr. W. Graham Scroggie of the MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE, Chicago, one of the most prestigious Christian Evangelical Mission in the world, answering the question - “Is the Bible the Word of God?”, He says: “Yes, the Bible is human, though some, out of a zeal which is not according to knowledge, have denied this. Those books have passed through the minds of men, are written in the language of men, were penned by the hands of men, and bear in their style the “characteristics of men.”
If words have any meaning, do we need to add another word of comment to prove our case? No! But the professional propagandists, after letting the cat out of the bag, still have the face to try to make their readers believe that they have proved beyond the shadow of any doubt that the Bible is the “irrefragable Word of God.”
“...seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.” ((Matthew 13:13)
THREE GRADES OF EVIDENCE
We have no hesitation in acknowledging that in the Bible, there are three different kinds of witnessing recognizable without any need of specialized training. These are:
1.You will be able to recognize in the Bible what may be described as “The Word of God.”
2.You will also be able to discern what can be described as the “Words of a Prophet of God.”
3.And you will most readily observe that the bulk of the Bible is the records of eye witnesses or ear witnesses, or people writing from hearsay. As such they are the “Words of a Historian.”

Different types of evidences in the Bible. The following quotations will make the position crystal clear:
The FIRST Type: “The Word of God.”
(a)“I will raise them up a prophet . . . and I will put my words in . . . and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.” (Deuteronomy 18:18)
(b)I even I am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour.” (Isaiah 43:11)
Note the first person pronoun singular (highlighted) in the above references, and without any difficulty you will agree that the statements seem to have the sound of being GOD’S WORD.
The SECOND Type: “Words of a Prophet of God.”
(a) “Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani? . . “ (Matthew 27:46)
(b) “And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord:” (Mark 12:29)
(c) “And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God.” (Mark 10:18).
Even a child will be able to affirm that: Jesus “cried,” Jesus “answered,” and Jesus “said,” are the words of the one to whom they are attributed, i.e. the WORDS OF A PROPHET OF GOD.
The THIRD Type: “Words of a Historian.”
“And seeing a .fig tree afar off having leaves, he (JESUS) came, if haply he (JESUS) might find anything thereon: and when he (JESUS) came to it, he (JESUS) found nothing but leaves . . .” (Mark 11:13)
The bulk of the Bible is a witnessing of this THIRD kind. These are the words of a third person. Note the highlighted pronouns. They are not the Words of God or of His prophet, but the WORDS OF A HISTORIAN.
For the Muslim it is quite easy to distinguish the above types of evidence, because he also has them in his own faith. But of the followers of the different religions, he is the most fortunate in this that his various records are contained in separate Books!
ONE:The first kind - THE WORD OF GOD - is found in a Book called The Holy Quran.
TWO:The second kind - THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET OF GOD, (Muhummed, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) are recorded in the Books of Tradition called The Hadith.
THREE:Evidence of the third kind abounds in different volume of Islamic history, written by some of high integrity and learning, and others of lesser trustworthiness, but the Muslim advisedly keeps his Books in separate volumes!
The Muslim keeps the above three types of evidence jealously apart, in their proper gradations of authority. He never equates them. On the other hand, the “Holy Bible” contains a motley type of literature, which composes the embarrassing kind, the sordid, and the obscene - all under the same cover - A Christian is forced to concede equal spiritual import and authority to all, and is thus unfortunate in this regard.
THE MULTIPLE BIBLE VERSIONS
It will now be easy for us to analyze a Christian’s claim about his Holy Book. The Tauraat we Muslims believe in is not the “Torah” of the Jews and the Christians, though the words - one Arabic, the other Hebrew - are the same. We believe that whatever the Holy Prophet Moses (Peace be upon him) preached to his people, was the revelation from God Almighty, but that Moses was not the author of those “books” attributed to him by the Jews and the Christians.
Likewise, we believe that the Zaboor was the revelation of God granted to Hazrat Dawood (David) (Peace be upon him), but that the present Psalms associated with his name are not that revelation. The Christians themselves do not insist that David is the sole author of “his” Psalms. What about the lnjeel? INJEEL means the “Gospel” or “good news” which Jesus Christ preached during his short ministry. The “Gospel” writers often mention that Jesus going about and preaching the Gospel (the Injeel):
1 “And Jesus went . . . preaching the gospel . . . and healing every disease among the people.” (Matthew 9:35)
2 “. . . but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.” (Mark 8:35)
3 “. . . preached the gospel. .“ (Luke 20:1)
The “gospel” is a frequently used word, but what Gospel did Jesus preach? Of the 27 books of the New Testament, only a small fraction can be accepted as the words of Jesus. The Christians boast about the Gospels according to St. Matthew, according to St. Mark, according to St. Luke and according to St. John, but there is not a single Gospel “according” to (St.) Jesus himself! In his life-time Jesus never wrote a single word, nor did he instruct anyone to do so. What passes off as the “GOSPELS” today are the works of anonymous hands!
The question before us is: “Do you accept that the Bible is God’s Word?” The question is posed in the spirit of a debate. We have every right to demand in a similar vein - “Which Bible are you talking about?” we may ask. “Why, there is only ONE Bible!” the Christian mutters.
THE CATHOLIC BIBLE
There is the “Douay’ Roman Catholic Version of the Bible. The Roman Catholic Bible was published at Rheims in 1582, from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate and reproduced at Douay in 1609.
As such the RCV (Roman Catholic Version) is the oldest Version that one can still buy today. Despite its antiquity, the whole of the Protestant world, including the “cults” condemn the RCV because it contains seven extra “books” which they contemptuously refer to as the “apocrypha,” i.e. of DOUBTFUL AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding the dire warning contained in the Apocalypse, which is the last book in the RCV (renamed as “Revelation” by the Protestants), it is “revealed”:
….If any man shall add to these things (or delete) God shall add unto him the plagues written in this Book.” (Revelation 22: 18-19)
The Protestants have bravely expunged seven whole books from their Book of God! The outcasts are: The Book of Judith, The Book of Tobias, The Book of Baruch, The Book of Esther, etc.

THE PROTESTANT BIBLE
Sir Winston Churchill has some pertinent things to say about the Authorised Version (AV) of the Protestant Bible, which is also widely known as the “King James Version (KJV).
“THE AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE WAS PUBLISHED IN 1611 BY THE WILL AND COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY KING JAMES THE 1ST WHOSE NAME IT BEARS TILL TODAY.”
The Roman Catholics, believing as they do that the Protestants have mutilated the Book of God, are yet aiding and abetting the Protestant “crime” by forcing their native converts to purchase the Authorised Version (AV) of the Bible, which is the only Bible available in some 1500 languages of the lesser developed nations of the world. The Roman Catholics milk their cows, but the feeding is left to the Protestants! The overwhelming majority of Christians both Catholics and Protestant use the Authorised (AV) or the King James Version (KJV) as it is alternatively called.
FIFTY THOUSAND ERRORS (?)
The Jehovah’s Witnesses in their “AWAKE!” Magazine, dated 8 September, 1957, carried this startling headline - “50 000 ERRORS IN THE BIBLE?” This “cult” of Jehovah’s Witnesses which is so strong in its condemnation of the orthodox Trinitarians, for playing with the “Word of God,” is itself playing the same game of semantic gymnastics. In the article under review - “50 000 ERRORS IN THE BIBLE?” - they say: “there are probably 50 000 errors .. errors that have crept into the Bible text . . 50 000 such serious (?) errors. . most of those so-called errors.. . as a whole the Bible is accurate.” (!)
Here I will endeavour to cast just a cursory glance at a “half-a-dozen” or so of those “minor” changes.
BEGOTTEN NOT MADE
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only BEGOTTEN son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 - AV)
No priest worth his cloth would fail to quote “the only BEGOTTEN of the Father!” when preaching to a prospective convert. But this fabrication - “BEGOTTEN” - has now been unceremoniously excised by the Bible Revisers, without a word of excuse. This blasphemous word “BEGOTTEN” was another of the many such interpolations in the “Holy Bible.” God Almighty condemned this blasphemy in the strongest terms soon after its innovation. He did not wait for 2000 years for Bible scholars to reveal the fraud.
The Muslim World should congratulate the “Fifty cooperating denominations” of Christendom and their Brains Trust the “Thirty-two scholars of the highest eminence” for bringing their Holy Bible a degree nearer to the Quranic truth.
HE (God Almighty) BEGETS NOT NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN.(Holy Qur’an 112:3)
“CHRISTIAN MES-A-MATHICS”
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these three are one.” (1st Epistle of John 5:7 - AV)
This verse is the closest approximation to what the Christians call their Holy Trinity in the encyclopaedia called the BIBLE. This key-stone of the Christian faith has also been scrapped from the RSV without even a semblance of explanation. It has been a pious fraud all along and well-deservedly has it been expunged in the RSV for the English-speaking people. But for the 1499 remaining language groups of the world who read the Christian concoctions in their mother tongues, the fraud remains. These people will never know the truth until the Day of Judgement. However, we Muslims must again congratulate the galaxy of D.D.’s who have been honest enough to eliminate another lie from the English (RSV) Bible, thus bringing their Holy Book yet another step closer to the teachings of Islam.
THE ASCENSION
One of the most serious of those “grave defects” which the authors of the RSV had tried to rectify concerned the Ascension of Christ. There have been only two references in the Canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and of John to the most stupendous event in Christianity - OF JESUS BEING TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN. These two references were obtained in every Bible in every language, prior to 1952, when the RSV first appeared. These were:
“So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN, and sat down at the right hand of God.” (Mark 16:19)
“While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN.” (Luke 24:51)
You will be shocked to note that Mark 16 ends at verse 8, and after an embarrassing expanse of blank space the missing verses appear in “small print” as a footnote at the bottom of the page. If you can lay your hands on a RSV 1952, you will find the last six words of Luke 24:51 above, i.e. “AND WAS CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN” replaced by a tiny “a” to tell you to see the footnote if you please, where you will find these missing words. Every honest Christian has to admit that he does not consider any footnote in any Bible as the Word of God. Why should the paid servants of Christianity consign the mightiest miracle of their religion to a mere footnote?
THE DONKEY CIRCUS
The above facts are a staggering confession by Christendom that the “inspired” authors of the Canonical Gospels did not record a single word about the ASCENSION of Jesus. Yet these “inspired” authors were unanimous in recording that their Lord and Saviour rode a donkey into Jerusalem as his mission drew to a close.
….and they sat him and I thereon.” (The Donkey) (Matt. 21:7)
…..and they set Jesus thereon” (The Donkey)(Luke 19:35)
…..and he sat upon him.” (The Donkey) (Mark 11:7)
“ ……Jesus . . . sat thereon:” I Donkey (John 12:14)
A PATIENT HEARING
In the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy - there are more than 700 statements which prove not only that God is NOT the Author of these books, but that EVEN Moses himself had no hand in them. Open these books at random and you will see:
•“And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down . . .“
•“And Moses said unto the Lord, the people cannot come. . .“
•“And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people . . .“
•“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying . . .“
•“And the Lord said unto Moses, Get down, charge the . .
It is manifest and apparent that these are NEITHER the Words of God NOR of Moses. They indicate the voice of a third person writing from hearsay.
MOSES WRITES HIS OWN OBITUARY?
Could Moses had been a contributor to his own obituary before his demise? Did the Jews write their own obituaries? “So Moses . . . DIED . . . And he (God Almighty) BURIED HIM (Moses) . .. he was 120 years old when he DIED.. . And there arose not a prophet SINCE in Israel like unto Moses . . .“ (Deut.34:5-10). We will analyze the rest of the Old Testament presently from other angles.
THE BOOK CHRISTENED “THE NEW TESTAMENT ”WHY “ACCORDING TO?”
What about the so called New Testament? Why does every Gospel begin with the introduction - ACCORDING TO .ACCORDING TO . . .. Why “according to?” Because not a single one of the vaunted four thousand copies extant carries its author’s autograph! Hence the supposition “according to!” Even the internal evidence proves that Matthew was not the author of the first Gospel which bears his name.
“And as Jesus passed forth thence, HE (JESUS) saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and HE (JESUS) saith unto HIM (MATTHEW), follow ME (JESUS) And HE (MATTHEW) arose, and followed HIM (JESUS).” (Matthew 9:9) Without any stretch of the imagination, one can see that the “He’s” and the “Him’s” of the above narration do not refer to Jesus or Matthew as its author, but some third person writing what he saw and heard - a hearsay account. If we cannot even attribute this “book of dreams” (as the first Gospel is also described) to the disciple Matthew, how can we accept it as the Word of God? We are not alone in this discovery that Matthew did not write the “Gospel according to St. Matthew” and that it was written by some anonymous hand. J. B. Phillips concurs with us in our findings. He is the paid servant of the Anglican Church, a prebendary of the Chichester Cathedral, England. He would have no reason to lie or betray to the detriment of the official view of his Church! Refer to his introduction to the “Gospel of St. Matthew”. Phillips has this to say about its authorship.
“EARLY TRADITION ASCRIBED THIS GOSPEL TO THE APOSTLE MATTHEW, BUT SCHOLARS NOWADAYS ALMOST ALL REJECT THIS VIEW.” In other words, St. Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name. This is the finding of Christian scholars of the highest eminence not of Hindus, Muslims and Jews who may be accused of bias. Let our Anglican friend continue: “THE AUTHOR, WHOM WE STILL CAN CONVENIENTLY CALL MATTHEW.”
WHOLESALE CRIBBING
But what about that “inspiration” business? The Anglican prebendary has hit the nail on the head. He is, more than anyone else, entitled to do so. A paid servant of the Church, an orthodox evangelical Christian, a Bible scholar of repute, having direct access to the “original” Greek manuscripts, let HIM spell it out for us. (Notice how gently he lets the cat out of the bag): “HE (Matthew) HAS USED MARK’S GOSPEL FREELY,” which in the language of the school-teacher “has been copying WHOLESALE from Mark!” Yet the Christians call this wholesale plagiarism the Word of God?
PLAGIARISM OR LITERARY KIDNAPING
Some common cord there is, for Matthew and Luke, or whoever they were, had plagiarised 85% word for word from Mark! God Almighty did not dictate the same wordings to the synoptists (one-eyed). The Christians themselves admit this, because they do not believe in a verbal inspiration, as the Muslims do about the Holy Qur‘an.
This 85% plagiarism of Matthew and Luke pales into insignificance compared to the literary kidnapping of the authors of the Old Testament where a hundred percent stealing occurs in the so-called Book of God. Christian scholars of the calibre of Bishop Kenneth Cragg euphemistically calls this stealing, “reproduction” and take pride in it.
NOTHING LESS THAN 100%
To demonstrate the degree of plagiarism practised by the “inspired” Bible writers, I asked my audience during a symposium to open their Bibles. I asked them to open chapter 37 in the “Book of Isaiah.” When the audience was ready, I asked them to compare my “Isaiah 37” with their “Isaiah 37” while I read, to see whether they were identical. I began, reading slowly. Verses 1, 2, 4, 10, 15, and so on, until the end of the chapter. I kept on asking after every verse if what I had been reading was identical with the verses in their Bibles. Again and again they chorused - “Yeh!”, “Yeh!”. At the end of the chapter with the Bible still open in my hands at the place from which I had been reading, I made the Chairman to reveal to the audience that I was not reading from Isaiah 37 at all but from 2 KINGS 19! There was a terrible consternation in the audience! I had thus established 100% plagiarism in the “Holy Bible.”
THE ACID TEST
How do we know that a book claimed to be from God is really the Book of God? One of the tests, out of many such tests, is that a Message emanating from an Omniscient Being MUST be consistent with itself. It ought to be free from all discrepancies and contradictions.
GOD OR THE DEVIL?
You will observe that the authors of the books of “Chronicles” and of “Samuel” are telling us the same story about David taking a census of the Jews. Where did David get his “inspiration” to do this novel deed? The author of 2 Samuel 24:1 says that it was the “LORD” God who MOVED (RSV: “incited”) David, but the author of 1 Chronicles 21:1 says that it was “SATAN” who PROVOKED (RSV: “incited”) David to do such a dastardly thing! How could the Almighty God have been the source of these contradictory “INSPIRATIONS?” Is it God or is it Satan! In which religion is the DEVIL synonymous with GOD!
IISAMUEL 24
AND again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
While the author of Samuel 24 above, makes God the boss of the situation, the author of Chronicles, below:
I CHRONICLES 21
AND Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
Apart from showing allegiance to God as is noted elsewhere, also gives the devil his due.
WHO ARE THE REAL AUTHORS?
As further evidence will be adduced from “Samuel” and “Chronicles,” I deem it advisable first to determine their authors instead of suspecting God of those books’ incongruities. The Revisers of the RSV say:
(a)SAMUEL: Author “Unknown” (Just one word)
(b)CHRONICLES: Author “Unknown, probably collected and edited by Ezra,”
PILED CONTRADICTIONS
The author of 2 Chronicles 9:25 gives Solomon one thousand more stalls of horses than the number of baths he had given him. “And Solomon had FOUR thousand stalls for horses. . .“ But the author of 1 Kings 4:26 had real kingly thoughts about his royal patron. He multiplied Solomon’s stalls by 1 000% - from 4 000 to 40000 stalls of horses! Before some glib evangelist draws the wool over your eyes that the difference is only a nought, a zero “0”; that some scribe or copyist had inadvertently added a zero to 4 000 to make it 40 000, let me tell you that the Jews in the time of Solomon knew nothing about the zero -“0”! It was the Arabs who introduced the zero to the Middle East and to Europe centuries later. The Jews spelt out their figures in words in their literary works and did not write them in numerals. Our Question is Who was the real author of this staggering discrepancy of 36000? Was it God or man?
MOST OBJECTIVE TESTIMONY
“All scripture IS given by inspiration of God, and IS profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16 AV by Scofield) Note the “IS’s” in capitals. Rev. Scofield is telling us silently that they do not occur in the original Greek.
The Roman Catholics in their “Douay” Version, are also more faithful to the text than the Protestants in their Authorised Version (AV). They say: “ALL SCRIPTURE, INSPIRED OF GOD, IS PROFITABLE TO TEACH, TO REPROVE, TO CORRECT.”
We will not quibble with words. Muslims and Christians are agreed that whatever emanates from God, whether through inspiration or by revelation, must serve one of four purposes:-
1.It must either teach us DOCTRINE;
2.REPROVE us for our error;
3.Offer us CORRECTION;
4.Guide us into RIGHTEOUSNESS.
To further examine the “Holy Bible” with these objective tests read the book Is the Bible God's word ?

THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS
Watch now how the Christian fathers have foisted the incestuous progenies of the Old Testament upon their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in the New Testament. For a man who had no genealogy, they have manufactured one for him. And what a genealogy! Six adulterers and offsprings of incest are imposed upon this holy man of God. Men and women deserving to be stoned to death according to God’s own law, as revealed through Moses, and further to be ostracised and debarred from the House of God for generations.

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