 What a topic that we have set before us. We've got a good introduction on Islam last night, and we want to carry that forth. I have four sessions to give three this morning and one tomorrow morning and My my sessions kind of all go together because I I believe that God put certain Desires in our hearts that we want and we want these things. We seek these things We cannot quit wanting these things. There's some things that we have a drive and we're pursuing We're pursuing with all of our hearts if you would and in God put those longings there and One of those things is we want to know the truth Knowing the truth is just something that's in all man. We want to know Where we came from we want to know Is there a God and where I believe God put that knowledge in us that we do know there is a God But we want to know How to live we want to know Also how to be right with God And so God has put that in us. I believe that God put a sense of right and wrong We have a moral compass Paul tells us in chapter one of Romans that we have the law written on our conscience So we know right and for wrong and because of that we know that we're we have sinned against our own conscience We know what guilt feels like every individual has a sense of God and they have a sense of guilt and There is the conflict That they know there's a God Who is just and good, but they know by their own conscience? They have not lived up to the standard that God requires of them So people want to know truth They want to know how to be right with God. They're looking for forgiveness or let's put it this way man is looking for a remedy with his guilt and And ultimately I believe man is looking for a relationship with God and These are the four things that all men are looking for and we're going to look at how does Islam Provide answers to these four things truth We're looking for salvation We're looking for forgiveness We're looking for a relationship with God Let's look at how Islam provides answer for that and we'll begin by looking at the Quran and we're going to try to get a basic understanding of the Quran and Does the Quran give us a reliable source of? Divine revelation Does the Quran give us truth? Can we trust the Quran and as we look at this? We are Christians and I assume most of us if not all of us are Christians here We're going to be evangelizing Muslims and we want to ask them. Can you trust the Quran? Can you rely upon the Quran? Is it a reliable source of truth? Is this truth in the Quran? Does it come from God? Did God really truly? reveal The revelation that is found in the Quran well Muslims believe the Quran is eternal That the Quran was never created in fact, it's a sin if you say the Quran was created They believe the Quran is eternal and it's the only thing that is eternal besides God They do not say the Quran is God They say it's uncreated. It's the uncreated word of God and It has eternally been written on gold tablets in Arabic All that is written in the Quran has been eternally written on gold tablets and In exist in heaven from all eternity They believe when the Quran was given to Muhammad it was given through dictation Gabriel who read the tablets Dictated them to Muhammad who Muhammad either immediately memorized them or he would dictate them to a scribe and the scribe would pin it down They believe the Quran is error-free. There's no mistakes They believe the Quran is the final revelation of God They expect no more new revelation is the final revelation of God And they also believe the Quran is a miracle in fact They say it's a miracle because There's no way Muhammad could have wrote this himself and Some of the reasons they say the Quran is Inspired and we can know it's inspired are divine is they have several proofs The first proof is its unique literary style and Surah chapter 2 or sure 2 23 it says if you are in doubt about what we have revealed to our servant Then produce a chapter like these call your witnesses apart from God if you are truthful and Another sir 10 38 says or do they say he has forged it Say then produce a single chapter like it and a call upon whomever you can apart from God If you are truthful, so if you doubt the Quran is the word of God try to reproduce or Write a chapter like this. You'll find that you cannot do it And so they say the Quran is so beautiful In its literary style that it's that has no equals and only God could write such a beautiful text as the Quran another Proof that they have that the Quran is divine is That Muhammad was illiterate one professor Islamic studies Dr. Maurice Bracella says How could a man from being illiterate become the most important author in terms of literary merit in the whole Arabic literature, how could he? Pronounce facts of scientific nature that no other human being could have known at that time and all this without Once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject So here's Muhammad. He did not know how to read or write How could he have created such wonderful literature that was that's unparalleled and all of Arabic Literature throughout history, how could Muhammad have done this? This must have been a miracle Another reason they believe it's divine is they believe that the Quran has not had any Imperfections to all of its transmissions the original Quran that is written in in heaven has been given to Muhammad and That is the exact in the Arabic is the exact Quran that they say we have today Without one mistake Without one scrabble error. It's been perfectly preserved throughout history And that proves that it is a book debonely given They say it has scientific accuracy that that Muhammad wrote things that only God could have written About scientific truth And another thing that they say is proof of its divine origin is its overall unity That the Quran speaks Truth and it doesn't contradict itself in any of its passages and that is the one I want to particularly look at This morning Can we trust the Quran and we're going to see does the Quran present a unified cohesive message? or Does the Quran contradict itself? you know when I was young my parents hid Our christmas gifts me and my brother's christmas gifts under the bed in a big box And I don't know if it was my oldest brother james or the next brother jason. I don't know who found the goodie box but For a long we all knew about it and We would make our little you know one time Meant to be a one time trip underneath the bed to see what we're getting for christmas And I remember opening up the box and digging through the things and playing with the toys Closing the box and slipping out And you know I did that the next day and the next day and you know, it's just irresistible to go look and play with your toys Eventually my mother lined us up all in the kitchen. That's the way she does when we're in trouble. She Puts us all there and begins to question us She starts with james my oldest brother and she says, you know, someone has been playing with the christmas gifts And I want to know who who is doing it. Of course all of us were guilty but james says not me he just lied she and um And my mom says, you know, I know one of you did it Someone didn't close the box right the box lid was not closed And my next brother jason goes it wasn't me mom. I made sure I closed that box every time I look you see Eventually If you're not on the right path If you do not have truth you can't help but eventually contradict yourself Lies or error cannot by its very nature support itself if you step back and look at the whole story So that's what we have to do with the chron Does it present a cohesive story? Does it provide us with a cohesive world and live view? I'm here to say it doesn't and when we Evangelize Muslims, let's push them on this particular point these other points We can look at and press them on too, but can you have because can you have a cohesive world view? That's what we should ask them. Does the chron Provide us a reliable source of truth Well, the way we're going to look at that this morning is we're going to Seek to answer that one question But we're going to do that by looking at the chron through the eyes of the life of muhammad We can't really understand the chron the nature of the chron Without understanding the life of muhammad because muhammad is the one who For say gave the chron or wrote the book And he did this through a 23 year period And i'm going to make it easy for us to memorize this so rather than thinking about 23 years We're just going to think 20 years and we're going to divide up the 20 years into halves The first 10 years the second 10 years of his ministry He lived to be 63 years old But just think that he began at the age 40 and time he was 60 he was done And so he has 40 his 40s and his 50s We're going to look at the the chron as it was revealed when he was 40 years old to his 50 And then look at the second portion from 50 to 60 most of the chron Was revealed in the first 10 years of his ministry most of it I would say 75 of the chron was revealed In the first 10 years 25 of it in his last 10 years And the chron is not a very big book It's right at 100,000 words a little over 100,000 words and that might not mean much to you But that's just a normal sized book It's Four fifths of the size of the New Testament the New Testament is really not that big of a book So it's not a large book But most of it was written in the first 10 years of his ministry And those first 10 years I would call it the peaceful period of Muhammad in fact The peaceful Quranic passages of the first 10 years Is between 610 to 622 And we'll look at this period first and what we want to do is we will look at the first 10 years and compare it with the second 10 years And see does the first 10 years match up with the second 10 years Can we have a cohesive worldview Based upon the stark difference between the revelation given In the first 10 years compared to the revelation given in the last 10 years Well, Muhammad began his public ministry in the year 610 he was born in 570 and Mecca And his died died six months after his born His mother had already died during the uh Six months after his birth And he moved in with his grandfather in two years after moving within his grandfather His grandfather died and then he was given to his uncle We learned about that last night So his early life He's just been passed around looking for someone to take care of him He settles in with his uncle and his uncle was a successful businessman that had a lot of respect And if it probably wasn't for his uncle, um, Muhammad would not have been able To survive that first 10 years because he was protected by his uncle But the age of 12 Muhammad during one of the uh merchant traveling Tours that he went on with his uncle He met a monk a christian monk Who prophesied over Muhammad claiming Muhammad would be the next prophet At 12 years old And it's important for us to realize this that this is a christian monk More likely a heretical christian monk But it's a christian monk who's making this prophecy over Muhammad and this had a impact on Muhammad I think this may have had an impact upon his monotheism Because the Arabs were prolifically polytheist But from a very young age Muhammad may have been interested in christianity And he had this amazing prophecy if you would place upon him Well at the age of 25 he marries his first wife We learned about that last week And at the age of 40 I'm 39 so i'm thinking about it. I mean he's my age He goes and he's praying in a cave not far from Mecca And he receives his first revelation He's basically praying in this cave and he hears his voice Speaking to him in fact later we learned that he believes it's Gabriel But he didn't know it was Gabriel at the time and Gabriel Basically tackled him squeezed him And says read And Muhammad doesn't know how to read Now art may have been recite That what is he to recite you know And and he kind of tries to wiggle away and then gable It squeezes him tighter and three times he keeps on saying recite and finally He submits to it. He recites. He's it's surah 96 if you want to read that you can see the first prophecy is in Surah 96 And basically what that surah says is that there's only one god There's one god So the beginning of this prophecy is the fact that Muhammad is convinced in monotheism But after this he goes into from six When he's 40 years old It's the year 6 10 from 6 13 for three years. He just goes silent because he's afraid that he's demon possessed Muslims believe in men they believe in angels and they believe in jinn Jinn are kind of a half human half angelic race He thinks either he's possessed by satan or he thinks it's he's possessed by a jinn But either or and in fact jinn can be Evil jinn can be good. They're kind of depends. They're not all like angels are not all bad. They're not all good but He's he's he's concerned. In fact, he thinks he's either demon possessed or he thinks he's become a poet And he hates poets and We've got to remember In the culture back then they didn't have the internet and the way They were entertained and the way they learned was through oral tradition and poets Would come and they would recite different historical events or make up stories Some of them would lie some of them would tell the truth And so generally people did not like poets. Muhammad hated poets and he was afraid that he had become a poet And so he hated that and he didn't want to be a poet. He didn't want to be demon possessed So he's convinced that This is not good. And so he becomes suicidal One biography reads none of of god's creatures were more hateful To me. This is Muhammad Then poets I could not even look at them I thought whoa is me. I'm a poet or I'm possessed So he's troubled by this dilemma So for three years, he doesn't he doesn't tell anyone but his wife But his wife helps reassure to him that this is not demon possession That this may truly be a true prophecy from god And eventually He was convinced not just by his wife but By a christian prophet Who reassures him that he's not just possessed but rather rather he's the prophet that moses prophesied about and so he Accepts that he accepts the fact that i'm a prophet of god And then he begins to publicly preach once he embraces his calling That he's a prophet or an apostle sent by god He embraces this calling and he begins to publicly preach in the year 6 13 And what we need to realize about his first years of preaching is he's preaching About monotheism, that's his main desire. He's not trying to Um take over the world at this point He's just trying to convince the polytheistic polytheist that there's only one god His main focus was the message god is one and i am his prophet And there's a judgment day to prepare for that's essentially the focus of his early ministry Sura 112 which was written very early in his ministry. He says this say he is all The one and only allah the eternal absolute he begetteth not nor is he begotten and there's none like unto him In fact, this is the first pillar of islam the shahada There is no god but allah and muhammad is his messenger or prophet He thought the jews and christians would accept him as one of their own Because he believed in monotheism and he he was influenced by christianity He just nationally assumed that once he saw that he was a prophet christians and jews would be would welcome him And it seems like muhammad only knew the scriptures old and new tesama by oral tradition And like like we heard last night through some heretical teaching He did not have access to the scriptures. He did not have a copy of the old testament the tour He did not have a copy of the psalms or the gospel He knew about some of the content, but only through oral tradition what had been told him Through his travels and through his interactions with others So he had a misunderstanding of many of the major doctrines of the bible muhammad didn't have had no biblical understanding of the trinity Which by time he he he was alive the trinity was well Confirmed throughout the church He had no understanding of the doctrine of of incarnation or imputed imputation These essential doctrines of the faith that were worked out throughout the church. He had no concept of But nevertheless he assumed that he was in line with the the prophets of the old and new testament So he assumed that he would be received by the church and by jews He seemed to have a favorable opinion of both jews and christians and he would lump jews and christians together He didn't see them. He saw them as distinct groups But yet in some ways he he Push them together as monotheists and he called them the people of the book The people of the book were both jews and christians and the early revelations that he received were very favorable to both jews and christians And surah 53 36 says oh he Is not informed what is in the pages of scriptures of moses and of abraham who conveyed all that all Ordered them to convey In 287 we gave moses the book and followed him up with the secession's secession of messengers for 163 we have sent three inspirations As we sent it to know it and the messengers after him we sent inspiration to abraham ishmael isaac jacob the tribes To jesus jobe jona erin solemn and to david we gave the psalms 33 says it is he who sent down the three Step by step in truth the book confirming what went before it and he sent down the law of moses and the gospel of jesus before this As a guide to mankind he sent down Criterium of judgment between right and wrong 546 and in their footsteps we sent jesus the son of mary confirming The law that had come before him we sent him the gospel therein we with guidance and light And confirmation of the law that had come before him a guidance and To all who fear all So muhammad is writing these and in these revelations we're going to understand were written early on in his ministry And he's writing like if you he's writing favorable to Towards the people of the book in fact muhammad seemed to believe The scriptures now he didn't possess a copy of them and the reason we know he didn't is because he Misrepresents the scriptures in the chron We know he didn't have real access to him because he's not quoting the scriptures or even referencing the scriptures in a proper way You tell he just has traditional traditions that were handed down to them world traditions And he refers to the some stories of the old testament. He refers to the gospels but not in a proper way But he assumed That the scriptures old and new testament would would confirm him as the prophet And that the new revelation that he's receiving would be coherent In agreement above the old and new testament And these revelations seem to indicate that in fact 568 He says muhammad Say, oh people of the scripture You have guidance In you do not have guidance until you observe the Torah and the gospel And that which was revealed unto you from your lord He's saying you have guidance or you won't have guidance until you go back to your scriptures Read your scriptures 1094 it If That'll be in doubt concerning that which we have sent down unto thee Then ask those who have read the books before thee Are surely have the truth come unto thee from my lord So be not of those who doubt So you you want to know if we're teaching the truth go back to your books God has revealed you the truth That's how you're not you're going to know that we are speak from the truth So if you're questioning me muhammad says go back to your scriptures. They will confirm me 2946 He's this is a revelation given to the muslims and do not dispute with the people of the book Don't argue with christians and jews Say those Of them who do wrong and say we believe in that which have been sent down unto us And that which has been sent down unto you Our god your god is one until him. We are submissive now. So muslims are saying your gods are god We believe what's been sent down to us and we believe what's been sent down to you So here in the crown the crown is saying muslims believe the old and new testament That's what it's saying. In fact one of the hidiths Says Then adam said unto him. Oh, moses all have favored you with his talk And he wrote the tour to you with his own hand So During the early periods He's in mecca. He's preaching And he's preaching peace if you would He's preaching in a way that he's assuming that he's truly is the next prophet Coming after the apostles and jesus He's preaching in a way. He thinks that christians and jews are going to embrace him As one of their own And also during this period not only did he assume that he was one with all monotheist He was pacifist or he was a pacifist towards the polytheist And sure 43 89 it says turn away from them talking about the polytheist And say peace to them For they will come to know so he's optimistic that the polytheistic in time be patient with them. They'll come and be submissive to all of 7199 says show forgiveness enjoy what is good turn away from the foolish The foolish is the polytheist don't punish them In fact, we already learned last night about the satanic verses and a period of Kind of despair He's preaching and think about this first 10 years of his ministry. He's preaching monotheism He's preaching that he's the prophet. He's a religious reformer He's not a politician. He's not a military leader. He's a religious former preaching basically religious There's one god But the first 10 years at the end of the 10 year period The estimate is that he either has 40 or 60 followers between 40 and 60 followers I mean think about preaching for 40 10 years in the end. You only have your family basically is why it's his cousins his friends 40 followers believe him And he's he's thinking if this is of god, why is not more people believing me? And then In surah 53 19 to 23 he he He gives these revelations that says that the polytheistic gods and mecca Can be prayed to and god will hear their prayer Yes, god is still all it is still the chief absolute god, but these other gods Could be Prayed to and their intercessions would make a difference before god in 620 Towards the end of the mecca period He travels to the seven heavens and meets god on a winged steed with gabriel next to him And that's where he gets the five prayers He's in mecca in the middle of night. He's transported on the steed to Jerusalem And this is why Jerusalem is a holy city to them And we know where the dome of the rock is there at the dome of the rock He's ascends to heavens and they believe in seven heavens. And that's why I've ever heard seven heavens comes from islam Muhammad goes into the seven heavens and each each heaven. There is a Old testament prophet And jesus is in the third heaven by the way, and he's there's noa. There's adam There's jesus. There's abraham and so forth until you get to the seventh heaven until he actually meets god face to face and there when he finally gets to god god gives him 50 prayers for the people The people need to pray 50 times a day And so he comes back down and he meets adam I think adam may be at the sixth or the fifth heaven and adam says man, you can't give 50 prayers That's that's too much people be praying all day. You won't have time to work have time to do anything else That's too laborious go back to god and ask if he can reduce it And he goes back to god And he bows down to all and he says all that 50 prayers is a lot Can you reduce that it reduces down to 45? And that process goes back to adam and adam says that's still too much And it goes to 40 then the 35 it finally gets down to five And that's why muslims pray five times a day And that's the second pillar of islam salat the far of all the go all the tori prayers Well, that's the 620 and he begins to not only Is he not received towards the end of his preaching ministry and mecca he begins to be persecuted Now it's debated to see how much he was persecuted But one of the reasons the persecution increases is because his uncle dies And his uncle was very influential in mecca And when his uncle dies, it's like his protection was gone and he begins to be persecuted One of his followers one of the 40 or 60 followers Was heavily persecuted and so in the middle of the night He learns about an ambush that they were going to come and attack him Maybe even a plot to murder muhammad and muhammad is warned of this in the middle of night Him and his followers followers Flee from mecca and they go to medina And in fact This is the flight away from mecca and this is another one of the pillars Of Of islam, you know, we have to travel to mecca once in your lifetime But once you get to mecca most muslims they go to mecca And when they're after they they walk around the coba seven times they re-enact muhammad's flight and they they go the 250 miles to medina And re-enact the flight of muhammad But he's ridiculed he's persecuted And so he flees 200 miles to the north To medina and that ends the first Period of his ministry the first period of his ministry Most of his revelations are very peaceful in religious nature A religious reformer if you would Basically preaching all it is one I am his prophet and we got to prepare for the judgment day 75 percent of the Quran Is revealed to him during the first 10 years 75 percent of it is very peaceful And you ask yourself is islam a religion of peace And they'll say yes Many of them will say yes And they'll look at 75 percent of the Quran and say here's the evidence of how peaceful we are We worship the same god as jews and christians one god And and so they look at that But there was a a change in muhammad's life After he fled to medina From 622 to the year he died He he begins basically A he becomes a political leader When he gets to medina the medina Welcome him in fact medina and mecca were rival cities. So they didn't like mecca So medina is like, okay, we we accept you. You're coming from mecca. You don't like the meccans. We don't like the meccans also Medina had three major jewish tribes A few christians, but mainly Jews and polytheists And the polytheists were made of arabs So you had arabs and you had jews And for a hundred years of medina they fought one another So you have this hundred year conflict and medina and they can't get along because you get Arabs not getting along with With the jews in muhammad Is in the arab But he's also a monotheist And because he's a monotheist the jews were like, okay, he's one of us Because he's an arab the arab said he's one of us so because of Them not liking mecca and the fact that he's he's kind of a perfect in between He's an arab monotheistic arab He quickly was received into the city and made a political leader. In fact, he he he rose to leadership First of all becoming an arbitrator between the arabs and the jews I mean This is amazing He went from being persecuted not having anything to all of a sudden into power And we know what power can do to people And this is what it seems to have done to muhammad But muhammad at the beginning of this in 622 he brought peace I mean he did something miraculous. He brought peace between the arabs and the jews. In fact, he he constructed the constitution of medina It was a peace treaty between the the jews and the arabs He got rights to non muslims And he appeased the jews and one of the revelations he had the was that you pray towards Jerusalem He gets a revelation A chronic revelation we pray to jews and of course the jews like that right Because that's the way they pray that's the direction they pray So he gets this revelation that we pray to jews He he so he brings a measure of peace within the city and then he With a little extra Followers I mean, I don't know what the satixas are he went from a group of 40 by that time he had more And he begins to raid The caravans of mecca There was a trade route They would take their goods the meccans would take their goods on these trade routes and what? muhammad do do humanist followers that would go and ambush these caravans And they justified this Because they were just trying to get their own stuff back They had to flee and leave their houses their homes their goods their possessions and mecca. They had to escape for their lives They escaped empty-handed and they said this stuff's just our stuff The meccans stole our stuff. So we're going to just kind of steal it back So they justified these raids And they began to go on more and more raids In 622 he murders The first jew 622 so all of a sudden, you know, there's a change taking place in muhammad In the earliest biography of muhammad Which we've written in the ninth century. This is the earliest historical biography written by a muslim Pro muslim Righteous biography and there was this jewish poet Who Made fun of muhammad in one of his poems Wrote something negative about muhammad And muhammad was incensed by this And the biography says this Who this is muhammad speaking who will rid me of this poet? And one of his followers volunteered and said i will deal with him for you apostle of god I will kill him And the prophet responded by saying Do so if you can The prophet also explicitly gave his assassins permission to lie and to use trickery in order to accomplish their mission The report goes on to describe how the prophet's followers deceived the old man out of his house In the middle of the night and jumped on him with swords and daggers and brutally murdered him After completing their mission The followers reported back to the prophet that they had killed god's enemy The author concludes this By writing Our attack upon god's enemy cast terror upon the jews And there was no jew in medina Who did not fear for his life so First he he makes peace with the jews the jews Begin not to accept him as his prophet They said you're not one of us A jew makes fun of them So he has him killed And from that point forward all the jews in medina As the biography says feared for their lives. They did not trust muhammad from that point forward Well in 624 We have the battle of butter And this is where things really change We had these caravan caravan raids that was going on through all this time But At this battle The mechons had gathered up 10,000 troops There had an overwhelming army. They wanted to crush muhammad and the muslims And the muslims feared for their lives and they didn't want to fight Because they knew it was a suicide mission And all of a sudden you're talking about revelations of convenience all of a sudden he gets these revelations that promises paradise If you happen to die You know so muhammad doesn't want his his army to to To you know flea So he promises him paradise Surah 4 7 4 says let those fight in the way of allah will see will sell their life of this world for the other Whosoever fights in the way of allah and he is slain Or if he's victorious He shall receive a great or vast reward Chapter 9 111 says allah had purchased of the believers their persons and their goods For theirs in return is the garden of paradise They fight in his cause They are slain I promise binding on him and truth through the law the gospel and the crown And who is more faithful to his covenant than allah then rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded another revelation He prophesied now this revelation was prophesied earlier when he was in mecca, but nevertheless in 78 31 He says those who are dutiful And are successful receive paradise gardens vineyards young full-breasted mature maidens of equal age And a full cup of wine And in the hideves it talks about how paradise heaven Is a place of sexual pleasure place of where all your five senses are are gratified And and so it's really begin it's almost like muhammad is Is encouraging people to fight for his cause In promisesing them that all their wildest dreams will be fulfilled Nevertheless Muslims only had 300 And they won the battle And they this was a sign that they thought was from god That muhammad truly was the prophet And after they won this amazing battle It was like then when he was in medina. That's when his power really That's when he began to basically all the polytheistic became muslims Either they converted or they were fled away And that's when Couple of the jewish tribes were kicked out Of medina And then he changes in february 11 6 24 he he gets a new revelation Where you no longer pray to druslan, but you pray towards mecca And then he begins to have a kind of a Revelations that are not in favor of the people of the book And he begins to say the people of the book Do not he's not saying they have a twisted scriptures or their scriptures are corrupt The crown never says the scriptures are corrupt the crown never Claims that the bible has been Uh corrupted in its transmission never makes that claims muslims today make that claim The crown says the bible is trustworthy And that we're to read it But what muhammad begins to get revelation is saying is the people of the book are not properly Teaching their scriptures They're withholding truth Or they're misinterpreting truth and they're doing it knowingly and purposefully because of their sin And rebellion It says he gets a revelation in 2 146 the people of the book know this and they know As they know their own sons, but some of them Conceal the truth which they themselves know The truth is from the lord In 6 24 through 6 25 muhammad expels two of the three tribes of the jews He receives more revelation And he gets In 48 29 he says muhammad is the messenger of allah and those with him are forceful against the unbelievers So all of a sudden now you see rather than say peace to those who disagree We're getting a revelation to say be forceful towards those who unbelieve 533 the punishment of those who wage war against allah in his apostle And strive to make mischief in the land is only this that they should be murdered or crucified Are their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides as they should be in prison This shall be a disgrace for them in this world and the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement So are nine five when the sacred months have passed slay the idolaters Wherever you find them and take them captive and besiege them and prepare for them each ambush 9 29 fight those who believe not in allah nor the last day Nor hold that forbidden that which has been forbidden by allah and his messenger Nor acknowledge the religion of truth from among the people of the book until they pay the tax With willing submission and fill themselves subdued So here's a change right? It just so happens this change of revelation is coinciding with the rise of power and muscle and the sword When he was just a religious reformer and mecca he only had 40 followers. It was peace peace Now when he had he's becoming More heavily armed And begin to be making these alliance with their surrounding city states there in arabia It becomes more and more powerful now. He's getting revelations saying saying strive against the unbelievers slay them where you find them 973 old prophets strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites And be unyielding to them For their abode is in hell 9 111 9 111 says surely allah has brought Of the believers their persons and their property for this that they shall have Their garden they fight in allah's way. So they slay and are slain 47 35 be not weary and faint hearted crying for peace when you should be Upmost for all it is with you And will never pit you in loss for your good deeds A couple of the hideves Say allah's apostle said i have ordained to fight with the people till they say None has the right to be worshiped by allah Fight with them until none none that you encounter Will worship allah and him alone Another hideef says it is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war And free them with ransom until he has made a great slaughter among his enemies Here's another hideef whoever changes his a lot islamic religion Whoever diverts from islam for sakes islam killed them well Finally he raises up enough troops and allegiances with With surrounding city states that he takes his vengeance out upon mecca But before he does that there's this the meccans come and it's called the the battle of the trench and Basically the meccans brought 10 000 troops surround a medina to siege it and for 27 days sought to siege the city But afterwards muhammad they they made it through the siege in fact because of the weather the meccans had to flee And after that He muhammad the one remaining jewish tribe that was still in medina He killed all the men and young men From probably around 12 years and older. He killed all the jews that were left in medina over 600 of them And the young children and women he sold into slavery But in 629 he went towards mecca. He conquered mecca And In the 632 he does a farewell pilgrim pilgrimages. He died in the year 632 So in this we see two sections of muhammad's life Our public ministry you have the first 10 years and the second 10 years first 10 years you have prophecies or revelation of peace In support of both jews and christians or at least very favorable towards jews and christians prophecies that says that the torah and the gospels are reliable revelations to be To be read and believed That As the jews and christians did not receive them as a prophet as he fled into medina and became a real a political leader and even a general in an army if you would His revelations changed And he become violent Towards jews and christians So When we look at the chron can we look at this and see does this present a cohesive role view the chron says that the the Book that's been revealed cannot be changed or altered But what we see we see a chronic verse a pray towards drusla And then a few years later A chronic verse that says pray towards mecca How do we deal with These contradictions Muslims deal with it with the doctrine of abrogation In fact surah 2 106, which was one of the last surahs to be revealed Conveniently he gets another revelation That kind of takes care of all the contradictions in the chron And it reads this whatever communications we abrogate Are calls to be forgotten We bring one that is better than it or like it Do you not know Allah has power over all things? You're not all I can say one thing Now and then later say something different. He has power to do that And if we say something that seems to be in contradiction to what we said earlier Do you not know that we're we're not saying anything but something better? I want to know How could this be if the chron is not created? In his eternal It's not like they believe that god is progressive in learning and trying to figure out things as he goes Why why give a chronic revelation to say pray towards drusla? If god Allah knew all along that is mecca and what you should pray towards There's many other other contradictions, but even I think the peaceful Verses seem to be abrogated by the more violent versus so with this said I would use this as a means of Questioning muslims. Do you Have a consistent Revelation and I would say They do not If you would let us close this session in prayer And we'll come back and we'll look at our next session On the question of Salvation Dear lord, we're thankful for the truth that you've revealed to us in the bible Lord, we're thankful lord that Although you have we have progressive revelation scriptures We have different covenants These covenants may have been abrogated in the scriptures dear lord with With different particular commands given to the jews that are not necessarily enforced to us christians We're thankful lord. We still have a cohesive worldview Because of the nature of the covenants, but dear lord We're thankful for truth. We're thankful for the word of god that is reliable trustworthy And truly is something it's it's it's not contradictory in its nature Lord, we pray that you give us wisdom in how we interact with muslims And your lord give us Desire to please you and uphold the word of god this we pray in your son's name