Unapologetically Muslim

The Problems of the Bible (PART 1)

I've come across many Christians on wattpad who have tried to persuade me that Christianity is the truth and that the Bible is the actual word of God. I have been told many times to just "wake up" and become a Christian instead of a Muslim.

So the following chapter is mostly a response to all those Jehovah-Witnesses of Wattpad and will serve as proof that I am more than capable of doing my own research and finding the truth for myself. Please note that the point of this chapter is not to bash Christianity or to make Christians look bad in any way, but to show that I have legitimate reasons for choosing not to become a Christian, Jew, or anyone other than a Muslim.

With that being said, here is a list of some of the main issues I have with the Christian Bible, and why I, as a Muslim, cannot accept Christianity as the truth. (I will write similar chapters for Judaism and Atheism in the future as well, so be sure to look out for those!) 

So without further ado, let's get right into it.

1) The Gospels that Christians use today aren't even from Jesus

The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament, and they were written approximately 70 years after Jesus's death. Not only that, but the authors of those books were also anonymous, and according to historians, not a single one of them were eyewitnesses to Jesus's crucifixion. 

Logically speaking, the fact that people who never even met Jesus were the ones in charge of recording his teachings only increases the probability that they could have gotten things wrong. And according to Wiki, the four gospels were actually found to be "inconsistent in detail." For example: 

"Mark never calls Jesus "God" or claims that Jesus existed prior to his earthly life, never mentions a virgin birth....Matthew reinterprets Mark, stressing Jesus' teachings as much as his acts and making subtle changes to the narrative in order to stress his divine nature...Luke, while following Mark's plot more faithfully than does Matthew, has expanded on the source, corrected Mark's grammar and syntax, and eliminated some passages entirely, notably most of chapters 6 and 7, which he apparently felt reflected poorly on the disciples and painted Jesus too much like a magician. John, the most overtly theological, is the first to make Christological judgements outside the context of the narrative of Jesus's life."

And this is just a fraction of the information I've found. There are so many more examples. But the fact that people were making changes to Jesus's narrative since the very beginning  only strengthens my point that they could have gotten things wrong, and why take the chance of trusting a book like that?

The Quran states that Jesus himself was given a scripture to teach to the people, just like Moses and the all the prophets before him. But that Gospel is no longer around today. Instead, Christians have been relying on a book written by ordinary human beings.

With the authority of writing the Bible given to so many different people (many of whom we don't even know!), it's simply illogical to assume that the original message of God remained completely intact. 

2) The main Christian beliefs aren't even mentioned in the Bible

The majority of today's Christians believe that God exists in the form of the Trinity, that He is one "essence" but exists as three persons. However, the Bible makes no mention of this. Instead the idea of the Trinity wasn't brought up until 300 years after the Gospels were written, by the Church father Tertullian.

God never says that He was "one in three persons." Jesus never stated that he was God and told the Christians to worship him. This was literally a man-made concept, yet the majority of Christians accept this as the truth.