Mohammed's Dubious Sources

Gospel of Barnabas?It is not uncommon for Muslims to prop up fake documents such as the apocryphal Gospel of Barnabas, in which Jesus was not crucified, to support the Qur’an, never mind the unreliability of the document. Though there were vague references by early church fathers regarding material written by Barnabas none quoted from it thus its validity remained ambiguous until the 16th century when the "Gospel of Barnabas" surfaced written in Italian. Aside from the suspicious fact that it was not written in any early biblical languages such as Hebrew or Greek, it contains numerous historical and scientific problems with the document and contradicts both the Bible and the Qur’an. Muslims often point to a place in the Bible that records a disagreement that Paul had with Barnabas to support the idea that Paul went off on his own to dream up revelations contrary to that of the other Apostles. Peter however made a special point in his second epistle to support Paul’s words as being reliable, "Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction." The Qur’an and Hadith teaches that Jesus is the only prophet who never sinned. Barnabas however, puts these words in the mouth of Jesus, "May it please God that I receive punishment of God in this world, because I have not served Him faithfully as I was bound to do"(Chapter 198). "Jesus confessed and said the truth, ‘I am not the Messiah’" (Chapter 13). "I am sent to the house of Israel as a prophet of salvation, but after me shall come the Messiah, sent of God to all the world . . ." (Chapter 82). Apparently whoever wrote the Gospel of Barnabas had never seen a map of the Holy Land. Chapter 20 says, "Jesus went up to the Sea of Galilee, and having embarked in a ship, sailed to his city of Nazareth." Nazareth is in the hill country quite some distance from the shores of Galilee. The list of problems goes on.

There is one story in the Qur’an (Sura 5:110) of Jesus making a bird out of clay and breathing life into it, which was plucked from another dubious document, the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. This presents a number of problems for Islam, one of which is; who can create life but God?

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